Music Hall to host JR DiGS Acoustic Christmas 2023
Hamilton –Dec. 18, 2023: The Music Hall will be hosting this year’s 15th Annual JR DiGS Acoustic Christmas Concert on Dec. 23, 2023. We are thrilled to be partnering with JR on this fundraising extravaganza that has become an annual holiday season highlight in this region.
15 years is a memorable milestone for any such event, and JR DiGS has promised this will be the biggest and best yet. He has set the bar very high, for last year’s Acoustic Christmas Concert at The Music Hall raised an amazing quarter of a million dollars ($252,783.23, to be precise!), distributed amongst 37 different local and regional charities (see a full list at jrdigs.com).
“Gathering so many of my well known, musically talented, huge-hearted friends together every December 23rd to jump on stage in celebration of all the good that’s being done in this city every year has become a Hamilton Holiday tradition that continues to inspire me more and more every year,” explains JR. “We hope to celebrate an even higher total donation amount with the 2023 concert.”
A vivid sign of the success and positive reputation of Acoustic Christmas is that it now regularly sells out before a full lineup of performers and celebrity guests is announced. Concertgoers are justifiably confident that they will get to see unique performances from notable local stars in a variety of musical genres, with some big out-of-town names also sure to show up.
JR loves to keep an element of suspense around the artist lineup, though he does remind that the list of those who have played just about every Acoustic Christmas includes Tom Wilson, Tim Hicks, Max Kerman of The Arkells, The Dirty Nil, and The Trews. “I can say that this year’s concert will include three big name Canadian artists who have never played it before. You can expect a heroic performance of a couple of huge ‘90s hits, and I can guarantee that if you’re a country music fan, you’ll be thrilled to be in the room.” Other stars who have played earlier editions of The JR DiGS Acoustic Christmas Concert include Randy Bachman, Gord Sinclair of The Tragically Hip, The Beaches, July Talk, Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo, Allan Doyle of Great Big Sea, Lowest Of The Low, Brett Emmons of Glorious Sons, Walk off the Earth, Sum 41, Gary Louris of The Jayhawks, and more. The event has certainly come a long way since comedian (“The Man With A Van”) and concert promoter JR DiGS launched it in the intimate setting of The Casbah Lounge in 2009. Since 2017, it has been held in the much larger (1,000 seat capacity) Music Hall, situated in the historic New Vision United Church in downtown Hamilton.
A final batch of tickets for The JR DiGS Acoustic Christmas Concert will go on sale on Dec. 21 here. This year, the fun of the show will also carry on at a large Acoustic Christmas AfterParty, to be held at Aeon Bayfront Studios, 243 Queen St. N., Hamilton. Tickets for that party are now on sale here.
For more information on The JR DiGS Acoustic Christmas Concert, contact JR DiGS at jrdigs.com/contact.
For information on The Music Hall, go to musichallhamilton.ca
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