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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Announce Over 60 Tour Dates for Late 2023

Trans-Siberian Orchestra have announced over 60 North American tour dates for the upcoming holiday season.

The run, which features two different touring lineups to maximize the amount of performances, as well as matinee and evening shows at several tour stops to further meet demand, will take place from Nov. 15 through Dec. 30.

The project was originally conceived by the now deceased composer and producer Paul O'Neill alongside Savatage members Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli. Throughout the years, various other metal musicians have taken part in touring, including Alex Skolnick (Testament), Bill Hudson ( NorthTale , I Am Morbid, Doro ), Joel Hoekstra ( Whitesnake ), Russell Allen ( Symphony X ), now late bassist David Z ( Adrenaline Mob ) and so many more.

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A fan club pre-sale is set to take place on Sept. 7 at 10AM local time. A public on-sale date has yet to be announced, but will at some point in the near future.

See the complete list of stops further down the page and head to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra website for more information.

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Nov. 15 - Green Bay, Wis. @ Resch Center - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 15 - Council Bluffs, Iowa @ Mid-America Center - 7:30 PM Nov. 16 - Lincoln, Neb. @ Pinnacle Bank Arena - 7:30 PM Nov. 17 - Charleston, W.V. @ Charleston Coliseum - 7:30 PM Nov. 18 - Greenville, S.C. @ Bon Secours Wellness Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 18 - Denver, Colo. @ Ball Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 19 - Greensboro, N.C. @ Greensboro Coliseum - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 19 - Colorado Springs, Colo. @ Broadmoor World Arena - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 21 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ Delta Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 22 - Allentown, Pa. @ PPL Center - 7:30 PM Nov. 24 - Manchester, N.H. @ SNHU Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 24 - Spokane, Wash. @ Spokane Arena - 7:30 PM Nov. 25 - Worcester, Mass. @ DCU Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 25 - Seattle, Wash. @ Climate Pledge Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 26 - Uncasville, Ct. @ Mohegan Sun Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 26 - Portland, Ore. @ Moda Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Nov. 29 - Albany, N.Y. @ MVP Arena - 7:30 PM Nov. 29 - San Jose, Calif. @ SAP Center - 7:30 PM Nov. 30 - Rochester, N.Y. @ Blue Cross Arena - 7:30 PM Nov. 30 - Fresno, Calif. @ Save Mart Center - 7:30 PM Dec. 1 - Toledo, Ohio @ Huntington Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 1 - Sacramento, Calif. @ Golden 1 Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 2 - Buffalo, N.Y. @ KeyBank Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 2 - Ontario, Calif. @ Toyota Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 3 - Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 3 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ Footprint Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 6 - Nashville, Tenn. @ Bridgestone Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 6 - Wichita, Kan. @ INTRUST Bank Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 7 - Knoxville, Tenn. @ Thompson-Boling Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 7 - Oklahoma City, Okla. @ Paycom Center - 7:30 PM Dec. 8 - Columbia, S.C. @ Colonial Life Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 8 - Ft Worth, Texas @ Dickies Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 9 - Charlotte, N.C. @ Spectrum Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 9 - San Antonio, Texas @ AT&T Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 10 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Gas South Arena - 2:00 PM 7:30 PM Dec. 10 - Houston, Texas @ Toyota Center - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 13 - Raleigh, N.C. @ PNC Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 13 - New Orleans, La. @ Smoothie King Center - 7:30 PM Dec. 14 - Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 14 - Memphis, Tenn. @ FedExForum - 7:30 PM Dec. 15 - Hershey, Pa. @ Giant Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 15 - Tulsa, Okla. @ BOK Center - 7:30 PM Dec. 16 - Pittsburgh, Pa. @ PPG Paints Arena - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 16 - Kansas City, Mo. @ T-Mobile Center - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 17 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ Wells Fargo Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 17 - St Louis, Mo. @ Enterprise Center - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 20 - Elmont, N.Y. @ UBS Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 20 - Birmingham, Ala. @ BJCC - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 21 - Wilkes-Barre, Pa. @ Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 21 - Jacksonville, Fla. @ VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena - 7:30 PM Dec. 22 - Cleveland, Ohio @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 22 - Orlando, Fla. @ Amway Center - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 23 - Detroit, Mich. @ Little Caesars Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 23 - Tampa, Fla. @ Amalie Arena - 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 26 - Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Van Andel Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 26 - Indianapolis, Ind. @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 27 - Milwaukee, Wis. @ Fiserv Forum - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 28 - Dayton, Ohio @ Nutter Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 28 - Chicago, Ill. @ Allstate Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 29 - Cincinnati, Ohio @ Heritage Bank Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 30 - Columbus, Ohio @ Nationwide Arena - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dec. 30 - St. Paul, Minn. @ Xcel Energy Center - 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra announces dates for their yearly winter tour with 104 shows

LOS ANGELES —  Trans-Siberian Orchestra  — the heavy metal, classical music, theater production, pyrotechnics and laser lightshow hybrid — will return this winter.

“The Ghosts of Christmas Eve — the Best of TSO & More,” will hit 62 cities and deliver 104 performances in both matinee and evening sets. It kicks off on Nov. 15 at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and runs through Dec. 30, concluding at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Al Pitrelli, TSO’s guitarist and music director, says that since the band started 28 years ago, their winter tours have become a tradition for loyal fans and their families.

“I call them repeat offenders,” he jokes.

Pitrelli estimates that nearly half the attendees have been “coming to us since the jump.”

Fans can expect a memorable performance that references the band’s 1999 “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” television film and album. The story follows a young girl who runs away from home on Christmas Eve; she’s alone, visions come to her, and eventually she makes her way back to her family at midnight, just in time for the Christmas holiday. Singers represent different characters, woven into a narrative by the late founder Paul O’Neill.

Pitrelli believes the reason TSO performances continue to draw people in is found in the story.

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“Everybody misses somebody, especially on Christmas,” he says. The show provides an arena for people to feel less alone, “wrapped up in the world’s biggest rock and roll production,” he adds.

The numbers don’t lie: As of July 2022, Pollstar put Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s box office gross at $769 million.

Tickets for the 2023 holiday tour will go on sale on Friday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m. local time. Limited $39 tickets will be available for purchase within the first week, or while supplies last. A dollar from each ticket sold will be donated to charity.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American rock band that has been making music together for eighteen years. They gained a reputation as one of the top ten ticket-selling bands in the first decade of the new millennium with over 10 million concert tickets sold.

Paul O’Neill, was all ready one of the biggest names in rock music, having managed and produced Aerosmith, AC/DC, Scorpions and Joan Jett. He began writing progressive rock in a band called ‘Slowburn’ in the 1970s, but instead of recording an album, he put it to one side and continued to write, produce, manage and promote. It wasn’t until 1996 that he had an offer from Atlantic Records to start his own band. He invited Jon Oliva, Robert Kinkel and Al Pitrelli to work with him on this project, combining classical and rock music. This is what became Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which of course got it’s name from O’Neill’s visit to Russia in the 1980s. He described Siberia as being incredibly beautiful but incredibly harsh and unforgiving as well. He compared it with life, and appreciated the philosophy behind it.

Their genre is an eclectic mixture of classical, orchestral, symphonic and progressive features that are then blended into rock and heavy metal music. They are in a league of their own with the conceptual ideas that they bring to life, taking their first release “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” as an example which was released on October 15th 1996. It was the first instalment of an intended Christmas Trilogy and is still to this day one of their best selling albums. It is this album that features the hit “Christmas Canon” which is a rework of Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major” but with lyrics added.

Touring is one of the things that this band is all about with their fantastically executed light shows that match the complexity of their music. There are in fact two touring groups colloquially referred to as TSO East and TSO West in America, made up of different line-ups. They have also embarked on a European tour, including a performance on New Year’s Eve in front of over 1,000,000 fans at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, which was also daring as the band played three shows across two continents in 27 hours.

If that wasn’t enough, TSO are philanthropists, having donated over $10 million dollars to local and national charities. They also donate at least one dollar per ticket to local charities in the cities that they perform.

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It's a family tradition for my family and I to go see the ever amazing Trans-Siberian Orchestra every year. Their Christmas tour, which was about two and a half hours long this past year, was as good as it ever has been. My parents love the album and it was a staple here, but we were totally unprepared when we saw them live the first time. It blew us away how incredible they are!

The music was from their Christmas album, telling the story of a man who coldheartly abandoned his child as a newborn, but goes to find him, narrated by the awesome Phillip Brandon. There were about 25 musicians on stage, with incredible pryotechnics, lasers and lights! There was also an incredible solo performed by the ever talented Chloe Lowery called "For the Sake of Our Brother," which was quiet and didn't have anywhere near the amount of effects as any of the other songs before or after it. The big crowd pleaser is the giant hit "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo," which was played toward the end of the show. Everyone around us loved the show, and most of us are making the trip to see them again in December!

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"The Ghosts of Christmas Past" was a truly electrifying experience at the CAPITAL ONE ARENA, in Washington, DC. The TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA captivated the audience with a spectacular laser-light show; "aerial" music performances so close that the audience could almost "touch" the performers; video-movie displays that caused mouths to gape in awe; and a resounding rock opera worthy of being performed in front of the kings of the Earth!

The musical messages sent by THE TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA were not only powerful but appropriate for "... the times We live in ...". I was especially appreciative for the orchestra's double performance of My Christmas favorite, "Carol Of The Bells" ....

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My Dad has been wanting to see Tran Siberian Orchestra for so long and we finally did when they came to Houston at the Toyota Center in 2016. We had seats on the floor and were able to have a pretty good view. The concert to me seemed to be heavy on the Rock n' Roll. I thought it would have more of a Christmas vibe to it since it was only a few days before Christmas when we saw them and especially since they are famous for their Christmas songs. Well now we have seen them and will probably never see them live again. I guess I would recommend seeing them at least once, but that is it.

I must admit that this was the first time I saw TSO live and I was not disappointed. I've always liked their music and to see them live was inspirational. They truly love what they do and it comes through in their performance. There is a certain quality about the performance that bring home the Christmas spirit of faith, hope, and love. I would truly recommend seeing any performance by TSO. Take it to heart because they have sought to inspire and remind their fans what Christmas is supposed to be about.

My experience and my show i seen was very very awesome and outstanding I really really enjoyed the show and the singers and all Especially my bestest favorite # 1 was the Drummer Blas ELIAS I had an aweesome Experience and Aweesome afternoon I wish I could go to every Transiberian orchestra Show you all Perform because my experience seeing them was Aweeesome outstanding and Incredible I look forward to going to many many more shows God Bless

Phenomenal, outstanding, best show ever. I've seen some power house bands in my day, but this is big, bad, rock opera!! The ensemble cast keeps it extremely entertaining, from big, bad, Joe Cocker style vocals; to the best laser, pyrotechnic show I've ever seen indoors.

My wife hasn't been to a concert since she saw AC/DC open up for the Righteous Brother's in Fresno CA last century. She had the best time ever with your show. See you next year!!

AMAZING!!! It’s not like any other concert. It’s truly a show with laser, pyrotechnics, great background videos, and of course awesome music. The band members’ constant communication with the crowd makes the concert feel like an intimate experience. Trans-Siberian Orchestra may not be my favorite band in general, but just the form in which their concert was conducted has made them my favorite band to see in concert.

The TSO show last night in Columbia, SC was awesome! I had floor seats this year and the views were a lot better. You can really feel the heat from the pyro up close! Their music and shows are full of high energy and the light show is spectacular! The singers and musicians are incredibly talented! The ticket prices are a little high but well worth the money. And I even here they donate some of the proceeds to charity.

I LOVE TSO. This is my 5th tome seeing it and it's just as exciting and memorable every year. This year my son and his family came too. They have 3 daughters, 10,10,& 8. My granddaughters were flipping their hair and dancing like the band and the guitar player, Angus, interacted with them. Everyone around us enjoyed watching them and he gave all 3 a guitar pick. He has made fans for life. We will definitely go again!

They had an amazing stage performance! I caught the 3 pm show in Sacramento and I was not disappointed. There was pyro, lasers, risers. Everything I’ve never seen before was in this show. This is my favorite show and now KISS has a tough show to beat. I would recommend this show to anyone who is interested in going but has never actually bought tickets yet.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra to rock 'Ghosts of Christmas Eve'

"It seems to come quicker very year," says Trans-Siberian Orchestra drummer Jeff Plate about the multiplatinum progressive rock group's famed annual holiday/winter tour.

The group first toured in 1999 with "Christmas Eve and Other Stories," based on its debut 1996 album of the same name. The show did well, and with each subsequent tour the production values have expanded as a growing cast of band members and singers is accompanied by stunningly presented visuals and special light and sound effects.

The 2023 tour, " The Ghosts of Christmas Eve — the Best of TSO & More," begins Nov. 15 with performances in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Over the course of the tour, divided into East and West performance groups,the orchestra will visit 62 cities and give 104 performances before concluding Dec. 30.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return to the DCU Center in Worcester, where it has been a regular visitor for several years, for performances at 3 and 8 p.m. Nov. 25.

'It's getting bigger every year'

Plate, who briefly lived in Worcester, believes the orchestra's annual shows are now a holiday tradition. When people think of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, they think about the holidays, Plate said during a recent telephone interview.

"It's getting bigger every year. We rank right up there with Nat King Cole, Mariah Carey. We do these amazing tours every year. People who were children are now bringing their own children."

With that, "there are still a lot of people who have never seen the show before and aren't aware of the (orchestra's0 discography," Plate said. "I think it can go on forever."

If it does, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra will fulfill part of the the vision of its late founder, Paul O'Neill.

Plate has recalled that O'Neill "would point out to us Trans-Siberian Orchestra is going to outlive us all."

Plate, who will be coming Nov. 25 to the DCU Center as a member of the East tour, has been involved with the ensemble from the start.

Beyond 'prog rock'

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was founded as a "prog-rock" band — playing a classical-rock mix inspired by groups such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the Nice — by O'Neill out of a band he had been managing named Savatage .

O'Neill, a veteran producer who previously worked with bands such as Aerosmith, got the green light from Atlantic Records for a three-album Christmas project to be recorded by a new American progressive rock group. O'Neill acknowledged a fascination with Christmas since growing up in New York City as one of 10 siblings. 

"It (Christmas) basically allows you the opportunity to undo mistakes you’ve made in your life that you didn’t think you could undo. I was always fascinated by that. It just seemed like something cool to write a story about," O'Neill said in a 2016 interview.

Several members of Savatage became involved with the new group, named Trans-Siberian Orchestra, including Plate and guitarist Al Pitrelli, who is now the group's music director.

Holiday hit makers

The Christmas trilogy was "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" (1996), "The Christmas Attic" (1998), and "The Lost Christmas Eve" (2004).

The group has made seven studio albums altogether that have sold 10 million copies.

"Christmas Eve and Other Stories" is set on Christmas Eve when a young angel is sent to Earth to bring back what is best representative of humanity. The angel hears a man praying for his lost daughter. The instrumental " Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" on the album, a classic prog-rock mix of traditional tunes given driving a rock treatment, is third on the list of all-time  best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles.  

'Switching it up again'

"The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" first appeared as a Trans-Siberian Orchestra TV special on Fox in 1999 and was subsequently picked up by PBS as an annual special and released as a DVD.

"It's being broadcast every year during the holidays," Plate said. A digitally restored version of “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” will be airing on local PBS stations this season.

The story follows a runaway teen who breaks into an abandoned vaudeville theater on Christmas Eve. While seeking shelter from the cold, the teen is discovered by the theater’s caretaker (played by the late Ossie Davis in the original TV special), who uses the ghosts and spirits from the building’s past to turn her life around. The rock opera features numbers from "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" and "The Christmas Attic" such 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" in a classical-rock mix.

A tragedy, a crossroads

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has adapted "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" as a staged production for its tour.

"It's a great story. It's a great presentation. The band loves performing it and the audience digs it," Plate said.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra has varied its touring shows. “Christmas Eve and Other Stories" toured through 2011. Then in 2012 and 2013, the band staged “The Lost Christmas Eve” and in 2014 hit the road with “The Christmas Attic.” From 2015 to 2018, they featured a stage-adapted “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.” 

But the group was shaken to its foundations in 2017 when O'Neill, 61, died suddenly. It was decided that the shows would go on. “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” made its return to stages and arenas in 2019, would have toured in 2020 but was performed as the livestream show because of the pandemic, and toured again in 2021.

Switching it up

Plate said last year that management, which includes O'Neill's wife, Desi, decided to "switch up again" with " The Ghosts of Christmas Eve — the Best of TSO & More" for 2022. The show returns again this year, but "no matter how many times we do the show it's always different. We've been able to update and change the production every year."

The second half of the show, the "Best of TSO & More" portion, allows for plenty of exploration of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's repertoire, including "some pieces we haven't done in several years," Plate said. This year is the 25th anniversary of "The Christmas Attic," so selections from the album are likely.

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Since its touring debut, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has played more than 2,000 winter tour shows to more than 18 million fans. In just the past 10 years (encompassing nine tours), the group has performed for more than 8 million fans.

Rehearsals for the 2023 tour will start at the beginning of November, Plate said. Each of the East/West touring productions has a drummer, bass player, two guitarists, an electric violinist, a string section of about seven players, and 10 to 12 singers. "So it is quite a large cast," Plate said. As Trans-Siberian Orchestra tours from city to city, it picks up some local musicians for the gig.

'Worcester was a great area for music'

As was alluded to earlier, Plate is familiar with the DCU Center and Worcester. He said he lived here for two to three years in the 1980s. He played in a couple of local bands and held landscaping jobs. "Worcester was a great area for music," he said.

He subsequently moved to the South Shore, when he met vocalist Zak Stevens. Plate later joined Stevens as a member of the group Savatage.

While living in Worcester, Plate went to see several shows at the Worcester Centrum, as the DCU Center was then called. One show was Judas Priest. Returning to the DCU Center with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, he said he found the seat he had sat in for the Judas Priest concert.

"When you're younger you're sitting in an arena thinking 'I'd love to be up there (on stage),' and then you're living that," Plate said.

Being on stage with the drums during a concert, "I always say I have the best seat in the house. The production really is mind-blowing."

When the tour concludes, Plate will go back to a 85-acre farm in upstate New York where he now lives. He teaches drums and has his own band, Alta Reign.

"Before you know it, this time comes around again," he said of the holiday tour. "It's all good."

As it has other years, Trans-Siberian Orchestra will give at least $1 from every ticket sold on the tour to charity. To date, more than $18 million has been donated by the group. For the DCU Center shows, a portion of ticket proceeds will benefit Homes For Our Troops (3 p.m.) and Lupus Foundation New England (8 p.m.).

Trans-Siberian Orchestra — 'The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: the Best of TSO & More'

When : 2 and 8 p.m. Nov. 25

Where : DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Worcester

How much : $44 to $114.75. dcucenter.com.

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Here at Heaven’s Metal Magazine, we are so awesome that we are covering both the East and the West teams that make up the travelling show called Trans-Siberian Orchestra. They split up and tour the nation before, during, and slightly after the Christmas season. Here is Editor Doug Van Pelt’s take on the West team that stopped in Austin, Texas, on December 9. Be on the lookout for Jonathan T. Swank’s East Team review posting shortly.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is back and they haven’t missed a lick. After a forced break during the 2020/21 winter season due to COVID-19, the instru-metal troupe loved by all ages is back on the road and playing to packed houses. After 25 years, this aptly named “orchestra” still displays all the excellence, chemistry, and performance chutz-pa that audiences have come to expect. This is no small feat, due to TSO setting their own bar so high.

Besides the obvious rock and roll bells and whistles on display throughout the show, the first time I saw TSO live, I recall being impressed with how good the instrumentation was. The second or third times, I was most amazed at how perfectly the show’s dynamics were laid out. The ebbs and flows – quiet moments and bombastic bookends every so often – made for an eventful show that even a minute of it couldn’t be missed. This time (I think it was my 5th), I was mostly taken aback by the incredible vocals heard all night.

Each vocalist controlled their own moment with grace and variable power. Most of these songs are carefully crafted to dynamically showcase an impressive vocal range. When it comes time to soar above the crowd, the voice is there already, like a clarion call that’s loud and clear.

This brings me to my next astute observation: the mix. Whoever is managing the sound for this travelling tour does one heck of a job making every note and every instrument sound strong. The mix is absolutely perfect, and each important element is heard in its place. Whether it’s something as simple as the bass guitar metering out a tempo, the drums moving a song along or the string section adding a thick texture, it can all be heard. There’s no distorted rumbling or out of place woofs to be found. It’s as if you’re listening to this 18-plus part machine in a sound booth and wearing headphones. It’s that pristine.

Back to the vocals. Heavy metal veteran Jeff Scott Soto, who’s played with everyone from Yngwie Malmsteen to Talisman to Axel Rudi Pell and Journey, belted out his power vocals while making it look easy. Like each of the 10 singers, his voice just filled the room.

Each vocalist held their own – metalhead Andrew M. Ross, John Brink, Nate Amor, Ashley Hollister, April Berry, Rosa Larruchiata, Dino Jelusick, and Jodi Katz. In lieu of time and space, I’ll just point out the highlights. Chloe Lowery took center stage several times and showcased a bluesy, smooth, yet textured voice.

With all the tools and technological tricks available to entertainers these days, sometimes it’s hard to believe that we’re actually hearing real music. Believe you me, this talented troupe of world class musicians are bringing it for real. I can’t imagine the pressure this puts on each of these people. This is the magic of live performance. If you don’t nail your part, it can stand out like a sore thumb. Some musicians probably attend shows just so they can point out the mistakes that the performer has made. Perhaps this makes them feel better about their own flawed selves. I don’t know, but I do know that my own personal mistake and off-note count on this night came out to a big fat zero. This flawless excellence is beautiful. It’s impressive when several individual parts each create its own sound that fits into the whole and creates a giant wall of sound. It’s so awesome when all of the voices and instruments stop on a dime together at the end of a song. This was on display throughout the night like a firm period that becomes a giant exclamation point with its instant silence.

One of the coolest moments was a story that band leader Al Pitrelli told about how Paul O’Neill first told him about his musical ideas that became TSO. It was cool to have that insight on what has become world renowned some 25 years later. Al, by the way, comes off as a super classy and respectful individual on stage. That and he has to be the coolest-looking guitarist this side of Joe Perry. He went on to introduce “A Little Too Far,” which he said was his favorite musical creation moment that he shared with the late Mr. O’Neill. It’s a moving tune that showcases Rosa Larruchiata’s vocal range. With a smooth, melodic performance that would make Bonnie Raitt proud, she quickly shifts between vocal lines that would take most artists two singers to accomplish in call/response fashion. She shifts from a passionate, “Gotta get back, gotta get back, gotta get back” to “I never meant to take it this far.” I can see why the song formed a soft spot in Pitrelli’s heart.

Dino Jelusick reminded me of Theocracy’s Matt Smith with his mix of vocal power, quality and stage-prowling prowess. He does a great job with “Three Kings.” He was fun to watch. Like all of his teammates, he is a great showman. What’s fun about the entire show is each performer keeps the energy going, working with the crowd’s energy and seemingly having fun trying to one-up each other on stage.

The biggest ham is probably guitarist Angus Clark. Like Pitrelli, he uses several different axes throughout the show. He sports the biggest smile of the bunch, strutting around looking like the ultimate happy Dutchman or Swede – grinning from ear to ear. He and Pitrelli trade some killer blues licks at one point that always makes me think of Stevie Ray Vaughan (and how they must be thinking of him, too), as they play these melodic and fat-toned riffs.

And speaking of Austin, drummer Blas Elias is introduced as a former student of the University of Texas, where “he saw bands like Kiss and Metallica play right in this arena as a kid.” I was probably at most of the same shows back in the day.

The show started with “Welcome” and segued into “Beethoven.” Then they went right into several Christmas songs that quite intentionally set the tone. Absent were seasonal (and fictional) songs about snowmen and reindeer. Present were tunes about Jesus the Christ child – “An Angel Came Down,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Holy Night,” and “Prince of Peace.” That’s really cool and soulful to see – especially in such a celebratory context.

This winter tour is called  Christmas Eve and Other Stories , so the informed fan knows he or she is going to be transported into an old city bar for now-familiar stories. The warm and deep voice of the narrator, Phillip Brandon, sets the tone for all the stories in song, where “An Angel Came Down,” “An Angel Returned” as well as trips into Sarajevo and across the globe.

By the time the show was reaching its climax, they had already wowed and delivered so powerfully that a chilling and epic tune like “Carmina Burana” was like both dessert and a knockout punch. It’s almost such a killer song that nothing else can follow it, yet the TSO signature tune “Wizards in Winter” came next and seemingly drained the audience of its last remaining ounce of energy. Like wringing a wet towel dry, it was a joyous and loud ending to a fantastic night. But that was not all! “Requiem” segued into “Christmas Eve Reprise” to finally bring this two-hour experience to a complete end. A finale like that doesn’t really need or allow for an encore.

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TSO’s “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” seasonal extravaganza will play one Southern California date in Ontario on Saturday.

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People celebrate the holidays in many different ways.

Yet, those who prefer to mark the season with face-melting electric guitar solos, symphonic rock music arrangements, laser light shows, towering special effects and an abundance of pyro are most likely very much into the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Indeed, they might even be what TSO’s Al Pitrelli calls “repeat offenders” — i.e., the die-hard fans who turn out each year to see the Orchestra’s annual over-the-top touring extravaganza.

This year’s road show, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve — the Best of TSO & More,” is skipping its usual San Diego tour stop. But the show will be performed at Toyota Arena in Ontario on Saturday.

The Orchestra — which was founded by producer-composer-lyricist Paul O’Neill in 1996 — will be revisiting its popular TV special/album/rock opera “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,” which follows the journey of a runaway teen on Christmas Eve. The performance will also include a second set filled with more TSO fan favorites from the imagination of O’Neill (who died in 2017).

Pitrelli, the TSO music director and outstanding lead guitarist who has been a core member of the band right from the very start, talked about this year’s tour in a recent interview.

Q: I’m looking forward to seeing you and the TSO crew in concert again this year — especially after receiving an email blast from the band promising no less than your “biggest tour ever!”

A: We pride ourselves on making the show bigger and better every year. In 1999, our first show, we had one 24-foot box truck. We rolled out of Dodge last year, I think I had 22 tractor trailers and 12 buses. So this thing has grown up like my children have grown up — like exceeded every one of my expectations.

It’s our job to make sure that the folks get a better show than last year. Because I have got a bunch of people in the audience that I consider the repeat offenders. They come back year after year and they just can’t get enough of it. They want their holiday tradition.

Q: So, we’re not just talking the regular rock ‘n’ roll marketing hyperbole. You’re saying the tour is going to top what fans have seen before.

A: I would say the biggest, best one ever — absolutely. And I say that year after year and I don’t think I have ever disappointed or let anybody down. I think what would break my heart would be if somebody came up to me after a show and said, “You know, dude? It was better last year.” That means I failed. And that’s not going to happen. Not on my watch.

Q: What do you think Paul O’Neill would’ve thought of this show?

A: I think he would be pretty happy. I think he would always go like, “Hey — more pyro.” Paul was my favorite pyromaniac ever. He just loved pyro. He loved laser. He loved big rock productions. He put everything — his heart and soul — back into the show. I would like to think we are carrying on his legacy and we are doing a good job.

Q: There is certainly no shortage of people who would agree with that assessment.

A: You’ve got everybody in the organization — management, myself and a bunch of the other people who have been there since this thing opened its eyes 28 years ago, not to mention his wife and his daughter. So, if everybody is kind of in agreement that “this is what Paul would do” or “Paul would be cool with this” — if we are all saying the same thing — I am pretty comfortable in the fact that, yeah, man, he would be proud of us.

Q: You often talk about Paul onstage. Not every organization does that — mention the founder, years after they have passed.

A: What other organizations do is none of my business. A lot of them just go out and do their thing. And good for them. Me? Over my dead body will we go through a show without acknowledging where this thing came from.

A lot of the folks — the repeat offenders in the audience — know exactly who Paul O’Neill is. But maybe there are 40 or 50 percent of the folks in the arena who don’t know — they are just enjoying the show. And rightfully so. They are there to enjoy a great show. But I want to kind of put the breaks on the momentum for a moment and bring to their attention the gentleman behind the scenes.

Without him, none of this is a possibility. So, I won’t ever do a show without acknowledging him and what he created and how he changed so many lives.

Q: Talk to me about “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,” the 1999 TV movie that TSO is choosing to once again spotlight on tour.

A: We do this movie and PBS picks it up and it’s an overnight sensation. It becomes this thing that everybody just starts watching and enjoying — like when I was kid and I was watching “Miracle on 34th Street” or “It’s a Wonderful Life.” And that’s become part of people’s holiday tradition — watching that movie during the holidays.

And it’s fantastic. It’s a great story. It’s got a great message. Of course, at the end — very Paul O’Neill — it’s got a happy ending. So, we are going to bring that to life this year.

Q: Why do you think “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” remains so popular with fans?

A: A lot of people love the story. A lot of people relate to the story.

Everybody misses somebody around the holidays. That’s how life goes. And I’ve said a thousand times that I would rather miss somebody terribly than never have had them in my life.

That’s what the story is kind of about. I think what bonds everybody in the audience together is knowing that everybody is going through this now.

And that’s an important part of this — to kind of come together and celebrate the people that we can miss. To hold them in reverence and celebrate their life and their memory, like we do every time I put a guitar around my neck with Paul O’Neill.

I miss that brother every second of every day. But I would rather miss him than to never have had him.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’

When: 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Where: Toyota Arena, 4000 Ontario Center, Ontario

Tickets: $59-$196

Online: Ticketmaster.com

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

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