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Candlelight: Holiday Special featuring “The Nutcracker” and More ⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Ottawa. Get your tickets now to discover Candlelight Holiday Special featuring “The Nutcracker” and More at Knox Presbyterian Church under the gentle glow of candlelight.
General Info
📌 Venue: First Baptist Church Ottawa
📅 Dates and times: December 21 and 30 at 6:30pm and 8:45pm (select during purchase)
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes (doors open 45 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is AODA compliant
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience. See your ticket for more details
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (+30 people), click here
🎻 Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Ottawa
Tentative Program:
Performers:

General Info
📌 Venue: First Baptist Church Ottawa
📅 Dates and times: December 21 and 30 at 6:30pm and 8:45pm (select during purchase)
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes (doors open 45 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is AODA compliant
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience. See your ticket for more details
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (+30 people), click here
🎻 Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Ottawa
Tentative Program:
- Holiday Medley – Various
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- The First Noël
- Deck the Halls
- O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam
- The Seasons, Op. 37a – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- XII. December. “Christmas”
- The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 RV 297: “Winter” – Antonio Vivaldi
- The Skaters’ Waltz, Op. 183 (Les Patineurs) – Émile Waldteufel
- Hänsel und Gretel: Act 2, Abends will ich schlafen gehn (Evening Prayer) – Engelbert Humperdinck
- Greensleeves (What Child is This) – Traditional
- Ma’oz Tzur – Traditional Hanukkah Song
- Ave Maria – Franz Schubert
- The Nutcracker, Op. 71 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Miniature Overture
- Act II: No. 12d, Divertissement. “Trepak, Russian Dance”
- Act II: No. 13, “Waltz of the Flowers”
- Act II: No. 14c, Pas de Deux. Variation II, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
Performers:
- String quartet feat. vocalist on select pieces

User reviews
4.8 /5
based on 159 reviews
- Took my nana to the candlelight Christmas nutcracker as an early Christmas present! It was such a special evening that I know we both will never forget about ❤️ We are both already looking forward to next years.
- A beautiful ambiance with a good mix of family-favourite Christmas songs and seasonal classics
- We really enjoyed this concert,. The musicians and the vocalist were top class and the whole experience was just lovely - a lovely outing for Christmastime!
- It was great! I'm glad the seating was distanced and I felt safe and could really fully enjoy the wonderful music.
- Absolutely amazing and mesmerizing 11 out of 10 !!! So worth it ! Thank you to the quartet for sharing yoyr talent and the holidays 😍
- Phenomenal! The Despax quartet playing was a joy to watch!!!
- The atmosphere was cozy and the singers voice was beautiful.
- The atmosphere, acoustics, music choices and talent were superb.
- Great experience. Loved it, can't wait to attend the next concert.
- It's a mesmerizing experience. Beautiful sounds in a unique setting. Love it!
- Really wonderful performance! We got seats in the A section, which was worth every penny. It was amazing to watch the musicians handwork. Wonderful mix of classical works and Christmas and nutcracker hits. The acoustics were great in the church. The candles are sadly the fake LED plastic kind, which I dislike, but I guess it makes sense. Hundreds of real candles would be super dangerous. All in all we really really loved it.
- Excellent experience. Beautiful music and wonderful atmosphere
- Really lovely. The soloist was exceptional.
- Beautiful- what the soul needs this time of year
- Truly amazing love it
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