Gettys Coming to Dallas
NASHVILLE, TN – What is fast becoming a new holiday concert tradition, “Joy—An Irish Christmas with Keith & Kristyn Getty,” is coming to Dallas next Tuesday, December 9, performing at the Winspear Opera House.
The sixteen-city 2014 tour will include eighteen performances at such landmark venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall (Dec. 17), the only NY appearance; Dallas’ Winspear Opera House (Dec 9); Cleveland’s Connor Palace Theater (Dec 13 and 14); and Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (Dec. 19), before concluding at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center (Dec. 22). Bluegrass master Ricky Skaggs will join the Gettys as a special guest performer at their New York and Atlanta concerts.
Combining traditional carols, modern hymns, and Irish folk music, the holiday event is a joyful celebration of the birth of Christ. Accompanying the Gettys will be their band of virtuoso musicians from North America and Ireland, performing on Celtic and bluegrass instruments. Also, each concert will feature Irish step dancing, along with the spirited voices of a multigenerational choir. After each concert (with the exception of Carnegie Hall), the band will take to the lobby of the theater to perform a fun acoustic jam—a hallmark of the Gettys' concerts.
Keith and Kristyn Getty are renowned contemporary hymn writers from Northern Ireland. One of Keith’s most popular compositions, “In Christ Alone,” (co-written with Stuart Townend) is the #1 most-sung hymn in the UK since 2006 (CCLI) and among the top twenty most-sung hymns in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The duo has released six albums and performed at notable venues as diverse as London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Grand Ole Opry.
The Gettys' annual “Joy—An Irish Christmas” tour began in 2010 and has been seen by more than 100,000 people throughout North America. This year, the tour returns following a hiatus in 2013 as the couple awaited the arrival of their second child.
2014 tour dates are listed below, and additional information regarding each concert is available on the Gettys web site.
Dec. 7 - Hattiesburg, MS - Temple Baptist Church
Dec. 8 - Jackson, MS - First Presbyterian Church *free concert
Dec. 9 - Dallas, TX - Winspear Opera House
Dec. 10 - Austin, TX - The Riverbend Center
Dec. 13 & 14 - Cleveland, OH - Connor Palace Theater
Dec. 15 & 16 - McLean, VA - McLean Bible Church
Dec. 17 - New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
Dec. 19 - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Dec. 20 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre
Dec. 22 - Nashville, TN - Schermerhorn Symphony Center
The Gettys met in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when they began songwriting together. They were married in 2004, and two years later, they recorded their first project as a couple in the United Kingdom and Nashville. In 2007, they made the journey to America and lived in Ohio for three years as they began their professional career, but found their permanent home in Nashville in 2010. The Gettys have released six full-length albums and two limited-edition EPs.