Mariah Carey announces 2024 ‘Christmas Time’ North American tour
We may be in the height of summer, but Mariah Carey is already gearing up for the festive season – sharing details of a North American Christmas tour. Find ticket details below.
Announced today (August 2), the upcoming run of live shows will see the chart-topping pop star bring back her annual Christmas extravaganza towards the end of the year.
Comprising of 20 shows across the US, the dates will kick off with an opening night at the Yaamava Theatre in Highland, California on November 6, and continue two days later with a slot at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
From there, one more show in California is lined up – set for the Acrisure Arena in Greater Palm Springs on November 13 – before Carey makes her way over to Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois and more throughout the remainder of the month.
The tour continues into December too, with a slot in Washington DC launching the latter half of the dates (1), before the stint continues with shows in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina and New Jersey.
Finally, the dates wrap up with two shows in New York. First will be a stop at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park on December 15, followed by a final show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 17.
Tickets go on sale next Friday (August 9) at 10am local time. Visit here to buy yours and check out a full list of dates below.
Mariah Carey’s ‘Christmas Time’ North American tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
6 – Highland, CA @ Yaamava Theater
8 – Los Angeles, CA | Hollywood Bowl
13 – Greater Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure Arena
15 – Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center
17 – Austin, TX | Moody Cente
19 – Houston, TX | Toyota Center
21 – Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center
23 – Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena
25 – Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena
27 – Rosemont, IL | Allstate Arena
29 – St. Louis, MO | Enterprise Center
DECEMBER
1 – Washington, DC | Capital One Arena
3 – Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center
5 – Boston, MA | TD Garden
7 – Baltimore, MD | CFG Bank Arena
9 – Raleigh, NC | PNC Arena
11 – Pittsburgh, PA | PPG Paints Arena
13 – Newark, NJ | Prudential Center
15 – Belmont Park, NY | UBS Arena
17 – Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center
Produced by Live Nation, the tour marks Carey’s grandest holiday spectacle to date, and is said to be the first of many surprises she has in store to mark the 30th anniversary of her legendary album ‘Merry Christmas’.
The album arrived back in 1994, and contained the record-breaking single and festive classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’. The live shows will feature renditions of timeless holiday classics alongside fan favourites from the rest of her discography.
In other Mariah Carey news, the singer was shortlisted at the start of the year for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2024.
Others on the list included Ozzy Osbourne, Cher, Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews Band, A Tribe Called Quest, Peter Frampton, Foreigner and Kool & The Gang.
In February, she announced a Las Vegas residency that took place in April, dubbed ‘The Celebration of Mimi’.
Consisting of eight shows, it came as a nod to her seminal 2005 comeback album ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ and featured fan favourites from the album, as well as other hits from across Carey’s back catalogue.
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