Sedona’s second annual Winter Play Day will take place at the Posse Grounds Pavilion at 525 Posse Ground Road on Saturday, Jan. 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The free, family-friendly event will feature entertainment by the sister duo Gracie and Tivona Moskoff of Kaleidoscope Redrocks.

Parks and Recreation Special Events Coordinator Jason Vargo said that he is excited about the improvements to this year’s experience that the centralized layout at the Pavilion allows to provide a more cohesive experience.

“The idea is to create a fun atmosphere for kids and families,” Vargo said. “We’re going to have inflatable slides and fun and games. There will be face painting. There will be a live DJ, and we will have a live performance from Kaleidoscope Redrocks, who was our featured musical performer last year. There are going to be snow machines, decorations, hazy bubble machines and hourly raffles with prizes, and all attendees will receive a free raffle ticket at the top of the hour … We’re also going to have hot drinks and treats available for purchase … and we’re going to be serving free s’mores.”

“There is no cost [for the inflatables] and as we move forward I believe that all community events of this variety including the upcoming Celebration of Spring on March 30 will be free to attend,” Vargo said.

The event will also include a winter-themed inflatable obstacle course along with cornhole, Giant Jenga and Giant Connect 4. Perennial city volunteer Janene Wells will also be running a booth.

“Janene is a part of every single one of our community events, and she always decorates and dresses up and offers fun and games for the kids from the kindness of her heart, and she’s a wonderful part of our events,” Vargo said. “We’re very glad to have her and happy to say that she’ll be a part of Winter Play Day.”

“The DJ is Bobby Russell of Sedona Sounds … it will be family-friendly fun music. The idea is to get out there and everybody get a chance to play together,” Vargo said. “We’re all going to have a blast out there. It’s going to be great music, you get free s’mores. And everybody’s going to be there for the purpose of having a great time. So I think you should definitely go.”

Performing at Winter Play Day is the realization of a dream for the Moskoff sisters.

“We really enjoyed being up there and just the power you feel when you’re up on that stage at the Pavilion,” Gracie Moskoff said. “Before we even moved here, we came across the Pavilion and we fell in love with the first sight and we just decided we were set on playing on that stage. So we were excited and ecstatic to be playing on it last year and even more so this year. Because this year we get to do a sound check and we can have our sound dialed in. But last year was really fun getting that real kind of venue experience that we haven’t gotten before.”

The sisters have been racking up performance experience in the last year after opening for the Vandoliers in June in Prescott, as well as releasing their first album “Running Out of Time,” which is available on Spotify and Amazon Music, and are planning to return to the studio this month.

“We have a very diverse sound with classic rock, country, folk, pop, punk, our own originals, we play patriotic songs,” Gracie Moskoff said. “We also play some Christian songs, we just did a few different Christmas shows as well. That included some Christmas songs, just holiday songs in general and our own originals, too. For the inspirations [for our original songs] it’s from bands that we really enjoy like The Who, The Vandoliers is a big one … and [we] also draw from The Eagles, Pink Floyd, a lot of like classic rock sounds is what we really do love and gravitate towards. But we do also have a bit of pop and like patriotic. We like to mix in all of the genres and create our own unique sound.”

At each concert, the sisters aim to play at least 50 years’ worth of music from their 200-song list.

“My sister and I, we’ve been playing music for the last eight years,” Gracie Moskoff said. “When we moved up to Sedona in 2018, we became The Kaleidoscope, and due to copyright reasons, we changed our name to Redrocks, because at the time we lived on Red Rock Road and being surrounded by the beautiful red rocks, we thought what better name to have in Kaleidoscope Redrocks and made a nice sound together.”

The duo’s mission statement is “To make people good with our music,” which originated when they were volunteering in a Phoenix area hospice care.

“[In] one of the group homes there, we met a woman who never spoke until we started coming to perform for them,” Gracie Moskoff said. “When we asked the woman why she never spoke, she said to us, ‘It makes me good.’ So our mission statement is to make people good through our music, and we accomplish that by fundraising for different organizations. In 2022, we raised over $5,000 for 12 different people and organizations.”

“I think we’re a band that people should come out and see [even] if they’ve seen us before,” Gracie Moskoff said. “I think especially because we’re young in this area. We need more support of the youth. Because from our personal experience, the youth here in Sedona area and the Verde Valley don’t get enough support like they should, especially when it comes to being creative and showing their talents.”

The event will be held outdoors, “snow or shine.” For more information, visit the Sedona Parks and Recreation Department at sedonaaz.gov.