SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin // 20th Anniversary Christmastide Reunion
Sunday, December 17, 2023
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music
$60 VIP Seating (includes premium seating and pre-show reception with Billy and SimpleGifts at 5:30pm!)
$50 Reserved Preferred Seating
$45 Advance General Admission Seating // $55 At The Door
All Ages
Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable.
Celebrate the season with this evening of holiday music!
SimpleGifts co-founder JeniLyn Starr and longtime standout Heather Garborg Moen return to join original members Carin Vagle, Billy McLaughlin and Billy O for this once-in-a-lifetime reunion performance.
Current band members Laura MacKenzie, Karen Paurus, Amy Courts, Lisa Z, Nathan Wilson and Enrique Toussaint join the lineup set against exquisite set designs and lighting.
For longtime -- and new -- fans of SimpleGifts, this 20-year Christmas celebration is a do-not-miss event on our 2023 concert schedule!
The siren-voices of SimpleGifts (Carin Vagle, Karen Paurus, and Amy Courts) soar with a Celtic twist (Laura MacKenzie on whistles/flutes/bagpipe), along with acoustic guitar (Billy McLaughlin), bass guitar (Dan Ristrom), drums (Patrick Nelson), percussion (Billy O), and fiddle & mandolin (Nathan Wilson).
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