TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA'S 2016 WINTER TOUR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF TSO
"The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" Tour Launches November 17
Fan Club Pre-Sale Begins September 7
Public Tickets Available Beginning September 16\
Trans-Siberian Orchestra returns to St. Louis with "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" tour Sunday, Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.
As
in all previous years, $1 to $2 of every ticket sold benefits select
local charities. Shriners Hospitals for Children has been designated as
the local charity for St. Louis.
To date, in excess of $13 million has been distributed to worthy
charities all across North America.
Tickets will go on sale Friday, Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. and may be purchased
at the Scottrade Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by phone at 800-745-3000, or online at ticketmaster.com.
Los
Angeles, CA (August 16, 2016) - Paul O'Neill launched a project in 1996
that over the past 20 years has become a critically-acclaimed,
multi-platinum, musical powerhouse: Trans-Siberian
Orchestra. The progressive rock group's
record-setting "rock theater" tours sell out venues year after year and
have cemented TSO's status as a must-attend, multi-generational, holiday
tradition. Now, TSO's creator/lyricist/composer O'Neill
is proud to announce that in its Platinum anniversary year, the group
is bringing back its treasured tale, "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,"
to 61 cities across North America beginning on November
17th and concluding, after 105 shows, with special New Year's Eve
performances in Seattle and Cleveland (see below for a full itinerary).
TSO's Winter Tour 2016 is presented nationally by the Hallmark Channel.
The
tour pre-sale opens to fan club members on September 7 through
September 9, with the general public on sale set to begin on September
16 (see www.trans-siberian.com for
details). TSO is pleased to announce that each concert ticket purchased online will include a digital audio copy of The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.
This is the first time these songs have been released in an audio
package, and the album features a bonus track titled "Music Box Blues
(Daryl Pediford Tribute New York 2004)."
Debuted last year to rave
critical and fan reviews, and based on TSO's multi-platinum DVD and long
running PBS fundraiser, "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve," follows the
journey of a runaway
who breaks into an abandoned vaudeville theater on December 24th. While
seeking shelter from the cold, the teen is discovered by the theater's
caretaker who uses the ghosts and spirits from the building's past to
turn her life around. The rock opera features
such enduring fan-favorites as "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," "O' Come
All Ye Faithful," "Good King Joy," "Christmas Canon," "Music Box
Blues," "Promises To Keep," and "This Christmas Day." 2016's tour will
see an all new second set containing some of TSO's
greatest hits and fan-pleasers.
O'Neill said, "This show
was an experiment, to take something that was conceived for TV and try
to express that story live on stage. Integrating segments of the TV
show, with a live narrator,
and full rock band was something TSO has never done. It brought back so
many memories to see Ossie Davis and everyone else who helped make that
TV special into the annual tradition that it has become. The
overwhelming response from the fans during the 2015
Winter Tour drove the band's decision to take it back out on the road
this year. As always we have new artists, new special effects and lots
of surprises in store. We are looking forward to seeing everyone on the
road."
2015 was another landmark
year for TSO, with their hit tour and the release of the chart-topping
new album, Letters from the Labyrinth (TSO's third Top 10 album debut in
a row, it spent
six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Chart). 2015's tour hit 60
cities across North America and played to more than 850,000 people. The
run grossed more than $41 million in just 45 days which resulted in it
being ranked No. 15 on the "Top
200 North American Tours" chart and No. 30 on the "Top 100 Worldwide Tours" chart by concert industry
trade Pollstar magazine.
The tour was also featured on CBS
Sunday Morning and in a cover story for the Wall
Street Journal. In the summer of 2015, at the Wacken Open
Air music festival in Germany, TSO produced an industry first when the
group performed a coordinated set across the festival's massive two main
stages, to a crowd of over 80,000 fans.
TSO has cemented itself as
one of the world's biggest rock acts, by playing approximately 2,000
shows for nearly 13 million fans, with tour grosses of more than $580
million, and selling
in excess of 10 million albums and DVDs. In 2009, Billboard magazine
placed TSO at No. 25 on its "Top Touring Artists of the
Decade."
As in all previous years,
$1 to $2 of every ticket sold benefits select local charities. To date,
in excess of $13 million has been distributed to worthy charities all
across North America.
Visit www.trans-siberian.com for
more details.
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