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23rd Annual Christmastide Tour // SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin

23rd Annual Christmastide Tour // SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin

Sunday, December 13, 2026
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music
All Ages

  • $60 ($73.84 w. taxes/fees) VIP Seating (includes premium seating and pre-show reception at 5:30 pm with Billy & SimpleGifts!)

  • $50 ($62.31 w. taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating

  • $45 ($55.38 w. taxes/fees) Advance Reserved Seating

  • $50 ($58 w. taxes/fees) At The Door Reserved Seating

Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable

The much beloved holiday event returns! A tradition that goes back to 2015, the SimpleGifts Christmastide Tour has been bringing light to the darkest days of the year — putting their message of peace, joy, and goodwill at center stage. Remarkable arrangements will provide audiences with a new and greater appreciation for even the most familiar carols and hymns. An evening of seasonal compositions presented with angelic three-part harmonies and Celtic flair.

Billy McLaughlin adds, “The group is as passionate as ever to send everyone home feeling like shepherds who have just met the angels."

Featuring the angelic voices of:
Carin Vagle
Karen Paurus
Heather Moen
(along with fiddle/piano)

Celtic wind instruments:
Laura MacKenzie

Ornamental percussion:
Billy Oehrlein

Bass:
Enrique Toussaint

Piano:
Lisa Z

Acoustic guitar:
Billy McLaughlin

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Billy McLaughlin has been changing people’s idea of what an acoustic guitar can sound like since the 1980’s. He is recognized as an innovative performer and composer who embraces the advantages of acoustic guitar amplification, unorthodox techniques and altered tunings while celebrating a gift for melody. His enormous yet fluid acoustic guitar tone has carried him around the world, to Billboard’s Top-Ten Chart and most recently through a devastating medical disorder called focal dystonia. McLaughlin has had to re-learn the guitar left-handed and is in the early stages of what might be described as ‘one of the great musical-comeback stories of all time.” His story is the subject of an award-winning documentary film called Changing Keys – Billy McLaughlin and the Mysteries of Dystonia.

“…you may swear Billy McLaughlin is two of the greatest acoustic guitarists you’ve ever heard.” — Pittsburgh Post Gazette

“… it’s amazing that such an extensive sound comes from one instrument.” — Chicago Sun Times

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