White Christmas Symphony Tour 2024

They are coming nowhere even remotely near me,

This is nothing uncommon, but man Florida must be going thru withdrawals with no shows there at all and you know I think this tour was the smallest show count with only 78 shows if I remember right the show count has been in the mid 80's to low 90's

Florida in regarding to Symphony Tours..

I don't recall Florida ever having one or else it's how I see it because as a Floridian
never is there a chance for me to have a close chance at attending a Symphony show yet less a regular Celtic Woman
show.

Is there a presale code?
Did CW send out an email or post on social media?

I got emailed a presale code from Atlanta Symphony, which is VIOLIN. I don't know if that code will work for anything other than Atlanta though.

Is there a presale code?
Did CW send out an email or post on social media?

I got emailed a presale code from Atlanta Symphony, which is VIOLIN. I don't know if that code will work for anything other than Atlanta though.

Ok thanks. I tried that and a couple other good guesses. No luck so far.

I'm not even 100% sure I'm going. I first wanted to see how good the seats are since the casinos reserve the best seats for the high rollers.

If you tried for tix today, did you get what you wanted?

It was so frustrating. Every time I put 2 tix in my cart, it would say my seats were unavailable. I continued this process until I didn't like the seats I was putting in the cart. So I didn't buy any tix yet. Now I am considering buying the good seats from a ticket broker, or ask PBS if they will have tix. 

If you tried for tix today, did you get what you wanted?

It was so frustrating. Every time I put 2 tix in my cart, it would say my seats were unavailable. I continued this process until I didn't like the seats I was putting in the cart. So I didn't buy any tix yet. Now I am considering buying the good seats from a ticket broker, or ask PBS if they will have tix. 

I ended up buying some "OK" tix, rather than wait. The ticket brokers are selling the $75 tix I was trying to get for around $125 right now.

So decided I wanted to go to a Christmas show.  Decided to go to Washington DC.  Spend an extra day or so and see the Christmas decorations, etc.  Did this in NYC years ago and thought it was great.  DC works better timing wise this year.

So found 2 tickets in second row (my daughter and I).  OK, lets see if I can get a M&G since there are 3 shows in DC.  Yes.  Get on website, enter the info and am told my credit card is declined.  What the heck?  Call bank. I use a fairly small bank where a live person answers the phone!!  OK, their fraud department (probably AI) flagged my charge as a fraud, since payment goes to Ireland.  Got that cleared up and re-entered the info and got the M&G.

Went to Kennedy Center website and got the tickets as well.

So now to find a hotel and plane flight.  This is not going to be a cheap trip!

They updated the Photoshop group pic to include Lisa L:

https://shop.slso.org/8388

They are coming nowhere even remotely near me,

This is nothing uncommon, but man Florida must be going thru withdrawals with no shows there at all and you know I think this tour was the smallest show count with only 78 shows if I remember right the show count has been in the mid 80's to low 90's

Florida in regarding to Symphony Tours..


So I went back to my concert list and found I went to a Christmas show in Florida in 2011 and 2015.  Nothing since, and I most probably would have gone just about anywhere in Florida


I don't recall Florida ever having one or else it's how I see it because as a Floridian
never is there a chance for me to have a close chance at attending a Symphony show yet less a regular Celtic Woman
show.

They are coming nowhere even remotely near me,

This is nothing uncommon, but man Florida must be going thru withdrawals with no shows there at all and you know I think this tour was the smallest show count with only 78 shows if I remember right the show count has been in the mid 80's to low 90's

Florida in regarding to Symphony Tours..


So I went back to my concert list and found I went to a Christmas show in Florida in 2011 and 2015.  Nothing since, and I most probably would have gone just about anywhere in Florida


I don't recall Florida ever having one or else it's how I see it because as a Floridian
never is there a chance for me to have a close chance at attending a Symphony show yet less a regular Celtic Woman
show.

As a Floridian I'm grateful for all the superb Celtic Woman Opportunities that's been from the very beginning until about 2012 except for the 10th Anniversary Tour which is when they returned to where I lived since they stopped coming after 2011. I've never had to travel somewhere else for another CW concert. My first time I ever have was for Voice's for Angels Tour in 2017 since the 10th Anniversary Tour was the last time they have until present today made a stop at my home location.

This was North Florida, now that I am in Central Florida in 2022, I'm astounded by them always going to Ft.Myer's and Southwest Florida which in the past they never to Ft.Myer's if I recall and before even after when they didn't come to me anymore continued to come to Orlando until at some point. The Symphony Tour is even worse I never seen it come to Jacksonville or Orlando or any in Florida at least more seen them just Atlanta but that's about it. Florida always being known as their debut state once had the most stops when now today is amongst the least. It's only surprising to me that some places they never been to my knowledge is where they go now which is great more opportunities for folks but even Jacksonville over Orlando I only now see for myself not Celtic Woman but instead a chance at Celtic Thunder!

I had tried to made a comment on a previous post, but it didn't work. 

Concerning Florida and Christmas shows, I went to 2.  In 2011 they were in Clearwater and in 2015 they were in St Petersburg

rfcw made some comments about the tours in general in Florida.  My thoughts.

Since 2009, I've been to 32 shows in Florida.  Most were in the Tampa area (that's where I live).  5 were in Lakeland.  A couple of times that was the first show on the tour.  6 were in Orlando.  A few in Daytona, a few in Fort Myers.

A lot of my tickets I bought thru the local PBS station; primarily to get the M&G.  That MAY have had some input in deciding what cities to go to.  It seems like CW is cutting out the PBS stations now.  I know a couple years ago that my local PBS station rep told me they were not going to participate any more since they were having issues with the venues.  The venues did not want to allow PBS to get front row seats -- the venue wanted to sell them directly to their season ticket holders.

Have you seen the video they posted called
A Sneak Peek into the White Christmas Symphony Tour

At the 0m12s mark, you can make out a partial setlist on the laptop. 

Can anyone read the songs? I think the highlighted one is
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Well from what I can see, there’s 21 songs, the playlist is 1 hour 15 long. The first songs are:

- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (indeed!!)
- Don Oíche Úd I mBeithil
- Ding Dong (which may stand for Ding Dong Merrily on High)
On one of the file in the desk there’s one named I’ll Be Home, which might be Lisa solo from Home For Christmas?

 

Well from what I can see, there’s 21 songs, the playlist is 1 hour 15 long. The first songs are:

- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (indeed!!)
- Don Oíche Úd I mBeithil
- Ding Dong (which may stand for Ding Dong Merrily on High)
On one of the file in the desk there’s one named I’ll Be Home, which might be Lisa solo from Home For Christmas?

Yes it is. You’d think there are a few old songs being resurrected because of Lisa — though I know Eabha took Lisa’s old solos when she was new.