Friday night we attended the Cincinnati Christmas Saengerfest with complimentary tickets from American Legacy Tours. The event featured area choirs in five venues throughout the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Though there were seven choirs spread around the venues we were only able to catch four of them perform. We saw the Cincinnati Boychoir at Memorial Hall, Nast Gospel & Praise Band at Nast Trinity Church, the Cincinnati Men’s Chorus at St. Francis Seraph, and the Young Professionals’ Choral Collective of Cincinnati at the Christian Moerlein Brewery.

While at St. Francis Seraph all concert attendees were invited back into the friary to look at the extensive collection of nativity scenes from around the world, as well as loads of other Christmas decor. We also let Trey spend plenty of time with the animals in the live nativity, which is one of his favorite activities of the Christmas season.

The Christian Moerlein Brewery recently hosted an open-house to show off their newly renovated brewery space on November 21. Fortunately the area was again open to self-guided tours during the Saengerfest. I snapped a few photos of their equipment and look forward to when all of their brewing operations are finally moved back to Cincinnati.

Finally the Light Up OTR event had placed luminaries throughout the neighborhood and it was all capped off with a lighting of a Christmas tree in Washington Park.