The 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival will be held on campus. Then, we plan to initiate a two-year rotation between two venues: two years at Minneapolis’s Orchestra Hall, followed by two years on campus, and so on.
Please continue to check our website for updates on the 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival.
The 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival performances will take place at Skoglund Auditorium on Friday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 6 at 3 p.m., and Sunday, December 7 at 3 p.m.
The performances are approximately 1.5-2 hours long with no intermission.
Children ages 10 and older are welcome to attend the performances in 2025.
Common ticketing questions
Tickets will again be managed through St. Olaf Music Organizations, and will be available online at christmas.stolaf.edu. If assistance is needed in order to complete your purchase, please email us at christmas-festival@stolaf.edu or call 507-786-3811.
During the presale, there is a limit of four total tickets per household for the Friday, Saturday, or Sunday performances (not four tickets per performance). This limit is lifted when tickets go on sale to the general public.
Tickets for the St. Olaf Christmas Festival can be exchanged through the Music Organizations box office, pending ticket availability. Tickets are non-refundable, but can be returned to the box office via the ticketing site or emailing christmas-festival@stolaf.edu.
Presale for the 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival will take place from Monday, November 3 at 9 a.m. to Monday, November 10 at 9 a.m.
Due to high demand, we highly encourage you to purchase tickets on the day you gain access to the 2025 presale.
The ticket presale is open to St. Olaf students, parents, faculty, staff, retirees, alumni, volunteers, and donors.
If you are eligible for the presale, you will receive an email with information on your presale date, and will be sent out in October with access information for ticket purchasing.
St. Olaf College students who are not performing in the Christmas Festival are eligible for one complimentary ticket.
St. Olaf employees, emeriti, and retired staff are eligible for one complimentary ticket to the Christmas Festival as well.
If you haven’t received your presale access code information by November 2, please email christmas-festival@stolaf.edu or call 507-786-3811.
The traditional Scandinavian buffet dinner will be available by reservation only in the Black, Gold, and Sun ballrooms located in Buntrock Commons. Two seatings will be available prior to each Christmas Festival performance:
Friday, December 5 at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 6 at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Sunday, December 7 at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Please select your seating date and time when purchasing your tickets. Seatings will last 75 minutes.
Stav Hall will also serve elements of the buffet from the Homeline each evening. Guests can pay $17.95 directly at the dining hall entrance during Friday dinner (4:30-7 p.m.) and Saturday/Sunday brunch (11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.).
Yes. You can stay up to date on additional events taking place during the Christmas Festival weekend here.
Pre-orders of the 2025 Christmas Festival CD are now available for purchase online here, for $19.99.
In advance of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, we ask all attendees to please access your tickets via the Eventbrite mobile app or website. When you order tickets on Eventbrite, an account is created using the email address you enter during checkout. To access your tickets, log in to the Eventbrite app or website using the email on your order:
Sign in to the app: From the Eventbrite app, sign into your account and tap the Tickets icon
Tap on your event to view tickets: Save an image to your phone, or add your tickets to your Apple wallet for easiest access—even without cell service or Wifi
Enter with ease: Show your mobile tickets from the app, your digital wallet, or your photos when you arrive at the event
Print Tickets:
Prefer the feel of a paper ticket? No worries, you can still download and print PDF tickets by logging into your account on the Eventbrite website and going to Tickets. Click on the corresponding event (in this case Christmas Festival), then select the “download tickets” option highlighted in orange. You can then print that PDF for entry into the Festival. We recommend using a laptop for this process.
Due to Eventbrite changes, tickets are no longer sent directly to customers as PDFs, and have to be accessed via Eventbrite accounts online or via the app.
Common multimedia questions
St. Olaf is proud to present a live video stream of the 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival on Sunday, December 7 at 3 p.m., free of charge. Visit christmas.stolaf.edu to access the live stream, find more information, and to access program notes written by current St. Olaf students.
Pre-orders of the 2025 Christmas Festival CD are now available for purchase online here, for $19.99. Due to the timeline of this year’s Festival, CDs will not be shipped until after Christmas.
The St. Olaf Bookstore will begin selling the 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival on CD in 2026.
Yes, an on-demand stream of the 2025 St. Olaf Christmas Festival will be made available at christmas.stolaf.edu in mid-December.
Yes! Oles in New York City, San Francisco, and Denver will gather together to watch the livestream of the 2025 Christmas Festival. More information and registration links below.
