Thursday, November 30, 2023
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
$79 Premium Seating
$69 Preferred Reserved Seating
$59 Advance General Admission // $69 At The Door
All Ages
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Beloved multi-Grammy nominated Canadian legends Crash Test Dummies come to Minneapolis to celebrate the holiday season, bringing their never-before-toured holiday release Jingle All The Way to Canadian and American audiences. This dynamic and engaging stage show will feature original members Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge, who will be joined as always by Stuart Cameron and relative newcomer Leith Fleming-Smith, delivering songs from Jingle All The Way along with some of the band’s greatest hits!
Opening the night is fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Carleton Stone.
For the first time ever, the Crash Test Dummies will bring their never-before-toured holiday release to Canadian and American audiences!
The record, released in 2002 and recorded at the world famous “The Magic Shop” in New York City was best described by prominent American journalist Martin Keller. “There's more than a bit of delightful holiday camp and irony afoot in the Crash Test Dummies' Jingle All the Way collection, from Brad Roberts' slow-mo delivery of "White Christmas" — with its heavy Hammond Organ — to Ellen Reid's Patsy Cline take of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," done in a convincing country-western style complete with pedal steel guitar. Still, there's serious business in the group's take on "We Three Kings" with the genuine Oriental influence of Ming Xioo-Fen's pipa playing, and Reid's readings of the traditional songs "The Huron Carol" and "In The Bleak Midwinter" are as reverent as standard Christmas songs get. Roberts' basso profoundo, on the other hand, is an acquired taste and he puts it to wickedly good use in "Jingle Bells," which is delivered like a medieval chant or rugby cry that's certain to put the fear in jolly old St. Nick.”
Jingle All The Way will be available on vinyl for the first time and will be made available on streaming services.
In 2018, 25 years after the release of their multi-Grammy nominated hit album “God Shuffled His Feet,” the Crash Test Dummies hit the road for the first time in 20 years with an Anniversary Tour that spanned North America. The overwhelming reception led to a 30th Anniversary Tour in 2022 for their debut release, “The Ghosts That Haunt Me,” that touched down in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Canada.
And the band is showing no signs of slowing down . . ..
“Touring again was not something we’d planned on, but surprisingly – at least to me – there are lots of people who many years later, still want to come and hear us. The folks that are coming out to see these shows tell us their stories, some of them very funny, some very dark and all very personal. It’s very humbling, being in the confidence of so many people” says lead singer-songwriter Brad Roberts, “and it has inspired us to continue to tour and make music.”
The band’s new single, “Sacred Alphabet,” was released in early 2023. Now, they hit the road once again, touring North America and Europe, presenting an evening of greatest hits and putting their signature spin on holiday classics.
Carleton Stone is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Nova Scotia. After recording three albums as a solo artist, Stone joined forces in 2015 with musicians Dylan Guthro and Breath McKinnon to form the pop band Port Cities. In 2022, Stone released his fourth solo album, “Papercuts,” to wide critical acclaim.