Concerts
Sombr at Nationwide Arena!
Sombr, brings the “You Are The Reason Tour” to Nationwide Arena on Sunday, November 8th with special guests Dove Cameron and Hannah Jadagu.
Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com
ABOUT THE SHOW:
He’s been called Gen Z’s rockstar heir apparent, but sombr is still, in many ways, Shane Boose, the kid who found his voice via a makeshift bedroom studio on the Lower East Side and who is, to this day, the sole writer (and co-producer) of his world-beating songs. The 20-year-old NYC native taught himself production and recorded by night while studying classical music and vocal performance at the prestigious, public LaGuardia High School. Now, with a sticky mix of arena pop, indie yearn, and glam charisma, he documents young love with a smoldering vulnerability and depth celebrated around the globe. In 2025, his smash single “back to friends” hit #1 on Spotify’s Global and U.S. charts, cracked the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (#7), dominated Alternative Radio (#1 for 5 weeks), and is now the #1 Pop song in America. His rapid rise is also reflected in his headline tours (North America, U.K., Europe, Australia / New Zealand), which sell out instantly and have pulled in surprise guests like Sam Smith and Laufey. sombr entered 2026 with a Best New Artist GRAMMY nod following a year in which he stormed the MTV VMAs (performing and winning “Best Alternative”), played both Fallon and Kimmel, and climbed the rafters on SNL. He also released his debut album, I Barely Know Her, co-produced by the legendary Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, The Replacements). Near-universal press raves followed, while three of the singles charted simultaneously on the Hot 100.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2026!
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES 30TH ANNIVERSARY WINTER TOUR
2026 Milestone Tour Showcases a Spectacular, Reimagined Production of ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’
Returns to Nationwide Arena Saturday, December 5
Pre-Sales Start September 10th & 11th
Public On Sale Begins September 18th
Columbus, OH (September 9, 2026) — Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) will celebrate its landmark 30th anniversary with a major winter tour featuring a spectacular, reimagined staging of its treasured tale, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,” followed by a high-energy second set. Renowned for delivering fans the ultimate “value for their dollar,” TSO pairs its legendary audio/visual experience, complete with over-the-top lasers, pyrotechnics, and special effects, with fan-friendly ticket pricing that welcomes generations of fans year after year.
Live Nation, Sunny 95 and QFM96 are proud to welcome TSO when they return to Columbus for two spectacular shows on Saturday, December 5 3:00pm and 7:30pm at Nationwide Arena. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 18-10am at www.ticketmaster.com with a portion of the proceeds benefiting The Heather Pick Music Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) and Franklin County Children Services Holiday Wish.
“We are honored to once again be selected as a beneficiary of proceeds from the holiday favorite Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Proceeds will help sustain the OSUCCC – James Heather Pick Music Fund’s mission of bringing professional musicians to our clinical care spaces to perform for patients and their families—offering moments of comfort, connection and healing through music,” said Annie Trance, service line administrator for cancer support services at the OSUCCC – James.
“Thirty years in, we never take a single person in that audience for granted,” said TSO music director and guitarist Al Pitrelli. “With the economy the way that it is right now, it shouldn’t be a mortgage payment for a family to come out to see us. Paul O’Neill [TSO’s late creator, lyricist, and composer] was very adamant about giving people in the audience more ‘show’ than they could’ve even imagined, and that’s what we do every year. We reimagine the show, we rebuild it, we make it bigger than last year, so people come back again. I want you to look and go ‘Oh my God, they outdid themselves one more time!’. We want to make sure you guys can come out and celebrate because you and everyone in that audience are the greatest fans in the world.”
The foundation for this milestone was laid in 1996, when Paul O’Neill launched a project that would forever alter the music and holiday landscape. Since its formation, TSO has grown into a critically acclaimed, multi-platinum powerhouse progressive rock group, generating more than $1 billion in gross ticket sales and establishing its annual “rock theater” tour as a multi-generational tradition. Now, three decades later, the group is proud to bring this treasured production to cities across North America once again.
As O’Neill explained in 2010, “When someone goes to a TSO concert, we don’t want them to walk away saying ’that was a great show’ or ’that was worth it’ or even ’that was the best show I’ve seen in a long time.’ We want them to say, ‘Man, that was the best show ever; we just ripped that band off.’”
Fan club pre-sale starts September 10 and 11, national and local presales start September 17, with the public on sale beginning Friday, September 18. To ensure this milestone celebration remains accessible to as many families as possible, TSO significantly expanded lower-priced ticket inventory in every city across the tour.
For ticketing links and more information, visit www.trans-siberian.com.
Based on TSO’s TV show and multi-platinum DVD, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” follows the journey of a runaway who breaks into an abandoned vaudeville theater on December 24th. While seeking shelter from the cold, the teen is discovered by the theater’s caretaker, who uses the ghosts and spirits from the building’s past to turn her life around.
The rock opera features beloved songs originally forged by O’Neill and the group’s composers – tracks that have evolved into massive, permanent fixtures of modern culture. TSO’s signature hit, “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24,” has achieved rare status as an untouchable seasonal juggernaut. Standing as the #3 best-selling holiday digital single in music history, the track alone has amassed more than 300 million global streams. Decades after its initial recording, the RIAA 3x Platinum-certified track remains in heavy seasonal radio rotation, dominates commercial soundtracks, and serves as the global standard for synchronized neighborhood and commercial animated light displays every winter.
Alongside the group’s signature single: TSO’s brilliant, Pachelbel-inspired “Christmas Canon,” which itself commands over 250 million streams, and enduring fan-favorites like “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Mad Russian Christmas,” “Wizards in Winter,” “Requiem (the Fifth)” and “This Christmas Day”, which also continue to anchor dozens of major holiday playlists across Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music, commanding top streaming numbers worldwide, year after year.
As in all previous years, at least a $1 of every ticket sold benefits select local charities. Driven by their massive fanbase, TSO reached a monumental milestone in 2024, announcing they have now sold more than 20 million tickets in total and distributed in excess of $20 million to worthy charities all across North America.
Stella Lefty at KEMBA Live!
Stella Lefty brings her “Long Way Home Tour” to KEMBA Live! on Sunday, January 10th.
Tickets on sale at AXS.com
Niall Horan at Nationwide Arena!
Niall Horan brings his “Dinner Party Live on Tour” to Nationwide Arena, Saturday, March 20th, 2027.
Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com
ABOUT THE SHOW:
The multi-Platinum-selling singer/songwriter first rose to prominence as part of the internationally acclaimed One Direction and has since firmly established himself as a powerhouse solo artist, selling over 90 million records worldwide.
Horan launched his solo career with the Platinum-certified album Flicker, which featured the triple-Platinum hit “Slow Hands.” He has since released three additional albums —Heartbreak Weather, which ranked No. 1 on both Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart and the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, The Show, which topped the same two charts, and The Show: Encore. His 2024 global headline trek “THE SHOW” LIVE ON TOUR brought his music to packed arenas across multiple continents, culminating in a sold-out North American run and over 1.2 million tickets sold worldwide.
Michelle Branch at KEMBA Live!
Michelle Branch brings her “Everywhere and Back Again Tour” to KEMBA Live on Saturday, March 20th!
Tickets on sale at AXS.com
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