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		<title>May Day! May Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Fulford Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy May 1st to all&#8230; how have you spent your May Day so far?  I was lucky enough to get up at 6:00 am, travel down the street to the Takoma Park Gazebo, and watch three morris teams do their very best to &#8220;bring in the  May.&#8221;  It was raining, but this <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2012/05/may-day-may-day/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Haircutting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Fields</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in the process for the Christmas Revels, everyone in the cast gets the word: No cutting your hair until after the show. That means men, too, although it&#8217;s possible to get special permission if you just can&#8217;t live with the big hair look. Some people end up with wigs. <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2012/03/adventures-in-haircutting/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy President&#8217;s Day &#8211; Celebrating Lincoln and Liberty at Ford&#8217;s Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Jones Blackford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurrah for the choice of the nation!  Our chieftan so brave and so true; We&#8217;ll go for the great Reformation — For Lincoln and liberty too! —“Lincoln and Liberty,” 1860 The echoes of this campaign song, made famous by songster and abolitionist Jessie Hutchinson, rang the rafters as the Washington <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2012/02/happy-presidents-day/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 194th Birthday, Frederick Douglass!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Fulford Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February is another month of holidays&#8211;Valentine&#8217;s Day, and of course, Presidents Day, which celebrates the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  But there is another famous birthday in February&#8211;that of the former slave, orator, and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.  In fact, Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2012/02/frederick-douglass/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Jones Blackford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday the 13th is a date that’s usually reserved for pessimism and superstition.  Nothing could be further from the truth on Friday evening, January 13, when the Washington Revels Jubilee Voices shared in a warm, inspiring commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This community <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2012/01/reaching-for-peace/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Concert at the Birchmere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Fields</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the early 90&#8242;s, Washington Revels did a few post-Christmas shows at the Birchmere with the local folk-rock band The New St. George. Now the New St. George&#8217;s leader, Jennifer Cutting, has a fabulous new band, and we&#8217;re reuniting with her to do a show tonight at the Birchmere! <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2011/12/winter-concert-at-the-birchmere/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Marking the Shortest Day of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Fulford Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a reprint of  &#8220;The Shortest Day&#8221; by Paddy Swanson (Artistic Director, Revels, Inc.). It was published on December 21, 2011 in the Revels Winter Newsletter. In our own time the Winter Solstice is indissolubly linked with the festival of Christmas, though it was not always so. The <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2011/12/winter-solstice/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Tarasque Spotted in Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Fields</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chorus member Terry Winslow e-mailed this photograph of a tarasque to the chorus this week: Here&#8217;s proof that the tarasque is a real live piece of Provence&#8217;s folk history: a carving on a column at the church of Saint-Trophime in Arles. If I understand the construction history correctly, the oldest <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2011/12/tarasque-spotted-in-wild/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye to Andalusia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Fields</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s over. Our beautiful Andalusian world has been dismantled. The final step in The Christmas Revels is taking down the set and moving all of our things out of the theater that we&#8217;d occupied for the last two weeks. The entire cast helps out with strike. The actual set <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2011/12/goodbye-to-andalusia/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a Wig Under There</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Fields</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us get to walk around on stage with our own hair showing, but if your hair is too short or too pink, you have to wear a wig. Yesterday Jane Bloodworth, alto section leader and all-around awesome person, was kind enough to let me take pictures of having <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="http://blog.revelsdc.org/2011/12/theres-a-wig-under-there/" title="Read more">Read more &#187;</a></span>]]></description>
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