It’s the event that kicks off the shopping bug in all of us!! The Domain hosts the 8th Annual Lighting of The Great Tree on Saturday, November 22, 2014. This fun tradition starts at 6:00 pm with the lighting of a 40-foot tree, featuring more than 6,000 twinkling lights and 400 ornaments in a variety of colors. The tree-lighting show will feature a performance by ACM singer and songwriter, Sunny Sweeney, and Outside Voices, a local children’s choir. The show will end with the lighting of the tree and a fireworks show.
The Domain will invite an honorary tree lighter to participate in lighting the tree with Santa Claus. In partnership with Any Baby Can and their Candlelighters Program, which supports families with children battling cancer, The Domain will introduce the audience to Any Baby Can through Kaylee Gonzalez’s story. Kaylee will then join Santa Claus on stage to light the tree and share in the magical moment.
Sunny Sweeney will perform favorite holiday hits in addition to a few of her most popular songs before lighting the tree. Her debut album, Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame, produced a trio of regional hits – “If I Could”, “Ten Years Pass” and “East Texas Pines” – and allowed her to begin touring. The holiday celebration will also feature a performance by Outside Voices, a vocal performance group founded in 2009. Outside Voices is open to all Austin and surrounding area youth with performers ranging in age from K-12th grades.
Free holiday entertainment will kick-off at noon at The Domain with family-friendly activities including children’s holiday music, face painting, caricature drawings, balloon twisting and holiday crafts near the new lawn area in the Domain II. Many stores will also be offering special in-store events and offers throughout the day.
The Domain will also have fun Holiday events throughout the season, including Visits with Santa Claus and Breakfast with Santa. Follow The Domain on Facebook for Holiday Event Updates.
I am very excited to off one reader the chance to experience the Tree Lighting up close with VIP Access! VIP access includes seating for the show, a gift for the kids, balloon twisting for the kids, beer/wine/juice and light bites. Seating opens at 5pm. The winner will receive access for the entire family, not limited to four total.
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Usually after Thanksgiving, but with the cold weather and rain this weekend I might not have anything better to do than decorate!!!
We put our tree up the day before Thanksgiving! We begin cooking certain dishes, have the tunes playing and decorations and lights everywhere! Just a little family tradition that keeps the everyone busy and everyone else out of the kitchen!
we put ours up the day after Thanksgiving!
My husband bought me a brand-new tree this year, and I can’t wait to put it up in our living room!
I would love to go to this event. We have missed it every year and we’ll actually be home this time.
I don’t put ours up until after Thanking. I’m not big into decorating for the holidays.
We plan on buying our Christmas tree the weekend of December 13th! However, since we just moved to Austin and have a larger house, I am hoping to put up a small fake tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, too! 🙂
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I put up Christmas decor & trees the day after Halloween!!
we put our tree up about a week after thanksgiving. last year we got a live, plantable tree from a local nursery, it felt so festive and we planted it after the new year!
I usually put up my tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving since we go out of town for Thanksgiving.
After Thanksgiving on Friday.
We put usually the weekend after ThanksGiving.
We put up the tree about 7 days out from Christmas unless we’re going out of town and then we don’t put one up!