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Tickets on sale for St. John’s Boar’s Head festival

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Tickets are on sale for the 54th annual Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival planned for Jan. 4 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 323 Wick Ave.

The event, one of the longest-running such festivals in the country, will have performances at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Performance tickets are $6. Dinner tickets with preferred performance seating are $20. There will be one dinner, served at 3:15. It is a traditional roast beef feast complete with wassail. The annual festival features the Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival Choir & Brass along with bagpipers, drummers, and a cast of about 100 church members dressed in medieval costumes.

Tickets may be purchased in the church office from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and until noon Fridays or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the church, “Attention: Boar’s Head,” 323 Wick Ave., Youngstown, OH 44503-1095. Include a note indicating performance time and make check payable to “St. John’s Episcopal Church.” Deadline for orders by mail is Dec. 23.

For information, call the church at 330-743-3175, visit www.stjohnohio.org, or email stjohnohio@gmail.com.