Mammoth Cave National Park to host Cave Sing on Dec. 3

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. – Mammoth Cave National Park is hosting its 44th annual Cave Sing celebration on Sunday, Dec. 3 at 2 p.m.

This year, the holiday music will be performed by two separate groups who have ties to the local community – The Band Table Singers and The Caveman Chorus.

Light refreshments will be served in at the visitor center immediately after the free event, where there will also be a visit from Santa Claus.

“Cave Sing celebrates a tradition of holiday music at Mammoth Cave that began in 1883 when local residents held a Christmas celebration that brought the local community together inside the cave,” superintendent Barclay Trimble says. “Since our modern Cave Sing celebration started in 1980, we have been honored to welcome a variety of local and regional artists to help us ring in the holiday season with our community and park visitors from far and wide.”

The Band Table Singers are a group of friends from Glasgow, Kentucky, who began singing at their high school breakfast table over 10 years ago, the parks says. Over time, park officials say they shifted toward the gospel music genre.

The Caveman Chorus has been a part of the south-central Kentucky arts community for over 50 years. The group performs multiple genres of music ranging from barbershop favorites to rock-n-roll classics, jazz standards to patriotic anthems, in a four-part acapella harmony style.

Cave Sing participants will meet behind the park visitor center and depart for the Historic Entrance at 2 p.m. From there, they will walk walk approximately 0.75 miles round trip to reach the performance area.

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