JON PARDI WRAPS THE CHRISTMAS SHOWS WITH 13-PIECE BAND AND FESTIVE SET LISTS
Country superstar Jon Pardi has made a tradition of his spirited big band holiday run, this year hitting the stage for five festive THE CHRISTMAS SHOW dates. Pardi delivered the perfect holiday celebration backed by a 13-piece band including twin fiddles and a horn section. Proving “there’s no party like a Jon Pardi (Christmas) party!” (People), the lively set list included a mix of holiday classics like “Please Come Home for Christmas” and “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” alongside tracks from his 2023 Christmas album MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM JON PARDI, including “lighthearted” (New York Time) originals “Beer for Santa,” “Merry Christmas from the Keys” and “400 Horsepower Sleigh” as well as his fan-favorite chart-topping hits.
Offstage, Pardi has donated $50,000 to support local charities in each city he visited: Chalk It Up (Sacramento, CA), Time for Change Foundation (San Bernardino, CA), Tulsa Youth Symphony (Tulsa, OK), Center for Children and Families (Norman, OK), and Road Runner Food Bank (Albuquerque, NM), all through his newly established Starlight Fund. Jon and Summer Pardi’s Starlight Fund is dedicated to supporting general youth enrichment, especially in trade, agriculture, and construction. The fund aims to empower the next generation to thrive professionally, and to cultivate a workforce that not only excels but also contributes meaningfully to their communities. Its mission is to provide resources and opportunities to organizations supporting those in need, with a focus on those pursuing hands-on skills and education in these important fields.
Since first hitting the country landscape, singer/songwriter/producer Jon Pardi has long separated himself from the pack, carving a lane that was all his own by producing, writing, and singing songs he created from the melodies up, and earning praise for it. “Jon Pardi cut a path through modern country’s embrace of pop, hip-hop and EDM” (New York Times) with “an emboldened work… a distilling of his sound into a more potent form that draws both vitality and assurance from his anything-but-sterile relationship to his tradition’s modern era” (NPR). Pardi is “a leader among a growing number of artists bringing back fiddle, steel and twang” (People) and “even when he’s singing sad songs, he wants people to have a good time” (Associated Press). Pardi’s critically acclaimed most recent album MR. SATURDAY NIGHT proved he has “blazed his own trail over the past decade” (Billboard) and followed his critically acclaimed 2019 album – HEARTACHE MEDICATION – a CMA and ACM Album of the Year nominated project that was also named as one of Rolling Stone’s “Best Album of the Year” and Los Angeles Times’ (Top 10) “Best Albums of the Year” upon release. His breakthrough Platinum-selling album, CALIFORNIA SUNRISE, which featured the multi-Platinum, chart-topping hits “Dirt On My Boots,” “Head Over Boots,” “Heartache On The Dance Floor” and “Night Shift.” Pardi has earned several No. Ones on country radio and is noted for his “long-lasting mark on the genre” (Music Row) and his impressive ability to carve out his own path creating “the kind of country music multiple generations came to know, and love can still work on a mass scale” (Variety). Filled with fiddle, twang and steel guitar, Pardi continues to “apply new ideas to country’s old sounds” (Los Angeles Times) and “bring authenticity back into Country music” (People). Pardi’s brand new “Friday Night Heartbreaker” is the lead single from his upcoming fifth studio album, anticipated for release in 2025.
