Millersville College college students occasion prefer it’s 1799 at Rock Ford [video] | Leisure

Two college students strategy Historic Rock Ford on a winter’s night time.

“Again then, this was the place to be on the twelfth night time of Christmas,” one says to the opposite. “This was the one night time a 12 months you might occasion.”

“Occasion? In 1799? I ponder what that was like,” her pal replies.

Thus units the stage for a just lately launched music video from Millersville College college students that was recorded at Historic Rock Ford.

The college’s Clair Brothers Music Enterprise Know-how program produces a vacation music video yearly, and there’s all the time a wildcard component. In 2020, a video version of “O Come, Emmanuel” featured giant snakes. In 2021, college students put their own spin on Sammy Hagar’s “Give to Live” and labored with Grammy-nominated producer and engineer David Ivory.

And in 2022, they donned interval garb and partied prefer it was 1799 at Historic Rock Ford.

Barry Atticks, affiliate professor of the Music Enterprise Know-how program, says he and college students from a music manufacturing course labored with Rock Ford final vacation season on recordings for the historic website’s “Voices of Yuletide Past” event.

“Throughout the manufacturing final 12 months, I discovered concerning the vacation of Yuletide, particularly the twelfth night time of that celebration (aka the twelfth day of Christmas) … As a result of I believed the twelfth night time custom of ‘occasion of the 12 months’ was an attention-grabbing occasion, I believed it might be cool to recreate with the scholars what an precise twelfth night time occasion was like in 1799,” Atticks wrote in an electronic mail.

But when they have been going to throw a celebration, he mentioned, it needed to be true to the time.

“We tried to be as traditionally correct as potential with hairstyles, jewellery, costumes, video games, meals, and different traditions,” Atticks wrote. “The employees at Rock Ford have been extraordinarily instrumental in serving to us get the main points right.”

Talking of instrumental – the music featured within the video is a twist on The Candy’s high-energy 1973 observe, “The Ballroom Blitz,” recorded by scholar band Lilla Jul Rockeband.

“They have been capable of work with outdoors professionals on the recording which was a giant thrill for them,” Atticks mentioned.

The filming came about from Nov. 12-13, with a forged and crew of 40 folks.

The video concludes with a particular message from Millersville College president Daniel Wubah.

“The scholars have been so thrilled that the president took the time to movie a message to be included on the finish,” Atticks wrote. “It created a terrific sense of neighborhood, and the scholars felt so supported by him on this artistic endeavor.”

Watch the video beneath, and discover extra info on Millersville College’s Clair Brothers Music Enterprise Know-how program here.