Welcome to the holidays in Disneyland!

Sleeping Beauty Castle

The parks are decorated, there’s snow on Sleeping Beauty Castle (and there has been since October!), the Disney California Adventure Festival of Holidays is underway, and we had a chance to check out the first Candlelight Processional of the year. Now, the Candlelight Processional is a little different in Disneyland than in Disney World in that the celebrity narrator isn’t announced ahead of time. So imagine our delight when we arrived at the Processional last night and had a MARVEL-ous surprise!

The Candlelight Processional is only held on two nights during the holiday season: December 7th and 8th at 5:30PM and 7:45PM each evening in front of the Main Street Railroad station. That means if you want to see the Processional, you need to stake out a spot early (in fact, some folks stake out their spot when the park opens).

People already staking out spots

There is a section in front of the train station set aside for invited guests, including VIPs, Club 33 members, media, and other high-profile visitors.

VIP section

The show features a 600-person choir, as well as a celebrity narrator.

600-member choir

As we mentioned, Disneyland does not reveal the celebrity narrator ahead of time, but previous narrators have included Brie Larson, Lin Manuel Miranda, Chris Hemsworth, Sterling K. Brown, and more. This year, we learned it was Agatha All Along, because the surprise narrator was the star of Marvel’s hit WandaVision and Agatha All Along shows, Kathryn Hahn. 

Kathryn Hahn!

Hahn was joined by the massive choir to tell the story of “The First Christmas,” accompanied by the Disneyland Symphony Orchestra, trumpets, and handbell ringers. It’s pretty impressive.

Telling the story of “The First Christmas”

Songs performed during the Processional include traditional songs like “Deck the Halls,” “Silent Night,” “Joy to the World,” and more.

If you’d like to catch the Candlelight Processional tonight, you will need to have a park pass reservation for either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure (and if you have a reservation for California Adventure, you’ll also need the park hopper option added to your ticket so you can hop on over to Disneyland at 11AM). You’ll also want to try to get there early to get a good spot to watch the show.

Stay tuned to DFB for more.

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Have you ever attended the Candlelight Processional at Disneyland? Share with us in the comments!