12/5/24 Carthage Christmas Festival 2024

We preview this weekend's performances of the Carthage Christmas Festival - billed this year as the 150th anniversary festival. We speak with Matthew Hougland and Maggie Burk, co-directors of the festival. They talk about all that goes into coordinating this massive production and talk about some highlights from the program, including an exquisite new work commissioned especially for the occasion. We also hear from Polly Amborn, a Carthage graduate ('89) who is now the conductor of the college's Treble Choir. Polly reminisces about attending the festival more than 40 years and reflects on how the event has changed in the intervening years and what it is like for her to now be a part of it in a very different way from when she was a student at Carthage.