Annual Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival set

YOUNGSTOWN

The 51st annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival will be performed at 1:30 p.m. and again at 4:30 on Jan. 8 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 323 Wick Ave.

The festival, a unique offering of praise to Jesus Christ at his Epiphany, will feature the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival Choir and Brass. It will once again include bagpipers, drummers and a cast of approximately 100 parishioners in medieval costumes.

Tickets for each performance are $6. Tickets for a 3:15 p.m. dinner, with preferred performance seating, are available for $15. The meal will be a traditional roast beef feast complete with wassail.

Tickets can be purchased at the church office from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, until noon on Fridays, or by sending a check, payable to the church, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a note indicating the preferred performance time and seating preference, to St. John’s Episcopal Church, Attn.: Boar’s Head, 323 Wick Ave., Youngstown, OH 44503-1095. The deadline for mail orders is Tuesday.

The church is handicapped accessible, and parking is free at the church lot, the public library and at the Youngstown State University parking deck on Wick Avenue.

For additional information call the church at 330 743-3175, visit the web site at www.stjohnohio.org, or e-mail stjohnohio@gmail.com.