Enjoy this cosy re-telling of the traditional nativity story as it unfolds around the comfort of the campfire. Stripped back and simple, and under the stars, A Fireside Nativity draws everyone into a festive celebration of community and song.
Written for 5-9s, but perfect for whole-school performances, this unique nativity includes 7 fabulous songs with a flavour of folk, and a reflective but light-hearted script. So, pull up a camp chair, ‘come as you are’, and be a part of something magical this Christmas!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
It’s folky, it’s cosy, it’s feel-good and full of atmosphere!
About A Fireside Nativity
- Written by the best-selling authors of The Big Little Nativity and It's A Baby!
- A cozy, immersive show
- Stripped back sound using an acoustic sound palette
A Fireside Nativity is a wonderfully fresh approach to the traditional nativity story, combining the worlds of both present-day and Biblical narrative, with the campfire setting creating a space for community, simplicity and wonder as the story is told in a light-hearted, but reflective way. There are 7 fabulous songs and a humorous script specially written for 5-9 year olds by Mark, Helen and Naomi Johnson.
The book provides the script, piano music and lyrics together with character list, costume and props pages and notes on staging, whilst the accompanying CD features all the songs professionally arranged, sung by the Out of the Ark Children’s choir. For an authentic camping experience, the backing tracks use an acoustic sound palette and only feature instruments that could be played around a campfire.
Available with a Words on Screen™ eSongbook allowing you to display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity.
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a Premium package that includes an eSongbook.
View character list, staging and props suggestions
There are 20 speaking parts (but many essential non-speaking parts). These speaking parts can easily be increased by having extra campers and splitting the lines between them. To increase the non-speaking parts, have as many travellers, innkeepers, shepherds, sheep, angels and attendants as you like. The 20 speaking parts can be easily decreased by having fewer campers and splitting the lines accordingly. The essential non-speaking parts can easily be decreased by doubling up on parts.
(Total length of music: 18 minutes approx)
Licence Information
Annual Performance Licence Information - What You Need To Know
- A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform a musical or nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff), including an online audience, and irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- It is more cost effective to purchase an Annual Performance Licence as part of a complete product pack.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
- To renew your Annual Peformance Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
All of our eSongbooks come with a Single User Licence
- This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install this software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, this will be covered by your Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights. For more information, click here.
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character list
- Costumes and percussion ideas
- Staging and prop suggestions
- Curriculum links
- Script and song lyrics
- Music score for 8 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Sound Effects: Tuning Guitar, Diddleyboom-Tish
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts (including editable script*) & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Sound Effects: Tuning Guitar, Diddleyboom-Tish
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
A charming, tuneful nativity with a twist
As the term draws to a close, why not cosy up to Christmas with A Fireside Nativity. Aimed at five-to-nine-year-olds, this charming show uses the premise of a group of campers sharing yarns around the fire to retell the Christmas story. Provided you can get past the bleak prospect of sleeping in a tent in the UK in December, it works remarkably well. In any case it ties in with the theme of Mary and Joseph being travellers who have to sleep rough… sort of. For me, what makes this production is the music. I know everyone has different tastes but I thought it had some adorable songs. They were a little bit different from the expected, which is no bad thing, and offered plenty of opportunities for schools with confident singers to voice multiple parts simultaneously. This will come as no surprise to Out of the Ark’s many existing fans. They have a knack of writing accessible and enjoyable songs that even the most self-conscious staff-member should feel confident with teaching.
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