Holiday Pops

Friday, December 12, 2025, 8 pm
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 8 pm

Doors Open at 7 pm
Pre-Concert Organ music, 7 pm
Concert starts at 8 pm

Join the Melrose Symphony, vocalist Renese King, and her band for one of Melrose’s favorite holiday traditions—Holiday Pops! This festive concert is packed with holiday classics, sparkling arrangements, and joyful sing-alongs. Get into the holiday spirit with this magical musical event!

Tickets:
General Admission: $32
Reserved Table Seating: $40

Sponsored by Brad Hutchinson Real Estate

About the Soloist

Since her “debut” solo performance of the Lord’s Prayer at the age of two—accompanied by the clanking and hissing of old heating ducts in a basement church school room—Renese King’s musical talents have taken her from spiritual and gospel singing at the church podium to timpani playing on the Carnegie Hall stage. Her soulful, moving voice has earned her numerous featured and guest solo appearances with the Boston Pops, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Gospel Choir, and many other ensembles nationwide. Most recently featured on the soundtrack of Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (now streaming on PBS), her voice also appears in three Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance award-winning PBS documentaries: Freedom Riders (2011), Freedom Summer (2014), and Tell Them We Are Rising (2018). She leads a chorus of Freedom Riders in a stirring rendition of “Hallelujah I’m A Travelin’” in Oprah Winfrey’s special The Freedom Riders Reunite 50 Years Later. A Boston Music Award winner for Gospel/Inspirational Artist of the Year, King is Music Director of the New England Gospel Ensemble, pianist at Waymark SDA Church in Dorchester, MA, a Berklee College of Music alumna, and a passionate advocate for the unifying and uplifting power of gospel music.