A Skaggs Family Christmas
Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs, celebrated musical clan, The Whites, and their families perform Christmas classics and brand new holiday gems, bringing together the love of family and the beauty of song.
A bus breakdown in 2003 left Ricky, his wife Sharon White, their daughter Molly and son Luke to entertain an Atlanta audience themselves, minus Skaggs’ award winning band Kentucky Thunder. The positive reaction from the audience and the pure spontaneity left an impression on Ricky that wouldn’t go away. An evening of singing Christmas music with extended family, Sharon’s sister Cheryl, their father Buck, and Cheryl’s daughter Rachel cemented the impression, leading to five holiday shows that winter.
Ricky elaborates, “Everyone at the Christmas shows kept asking if we had a CD of this music. At the time, we didn’t. But as soon as we got off the road…we went right into the studio and started recording.” The result was A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 1, the first full-length recording from the family, featuring 13 of the songs performed in their show. A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 2 released in the fall of 2011, includes 10 more songs from their show and a bonus DVD from their performance at the historic Ryman Auditorium.
Now in its twelfth year, the Skaggs Family Christmas tour offers the variety you’d find at any gathering of friends and relatives, each with his or her unique personality and taste…yet different vocal and instrumental elements flow into a single statement of love, friendship, and faith.
Tickets are $50, $40 & $30 plus tax and an online/phone ticketing fee (this fee is waived when tickets are purchased in the Gift Shop). Tickets in the ADA section are for patrons with mobility disabilities and up to three companions. If companion seating is not available because the ADA section is sold out, RCGR will offer other seats as close as possible to the accessible seat, if available, at the purchase price of the other section. Tickets are on sale in the Gift Shop and online.
Hotel packages are available by calling 877-677-3456. Packages are $295 plus tax and include a one night stay in a deluxe king or double queen room, two tickets to the show and two dinners at Robert's Buffet. There are a limited number of hotel packages available.
Doors open at 7pm for the 8pm show.
A bus breakdown in 2003 left Ricky, his wife Sharon White, their daughter Molly and son Luke to entertain an Atlanta audience themselves, minus Skaggs’ award winning band Kentucky Thunder. The positive reaction from the audience and the pure spontaneity left an impression on Ricky that wouldn’t go away. An evening of singing Christmas music with extended family, Sharon’s sister Cheryl, their father Buck, and Cheryl’s daughter Rachel cemented the impression, leading to five holiday shows that winter.
Ricky elaborates, “Everyone at the Christmas shows kept asking if we had a CD of this music. At the time, we didn’t. But as soon as we got off the road…we went right into the studio and started recording.” The result was A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 1, the first full-length recording from the family, featuring 13 of the songs performed in their show. A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 2 released in the fall of 2011, includes 10 more songs from their show and a bonus DVD from their performance at the historic Ryman Auditorium.
Now in its twelfth year, the Skaggs Family Christmas tour offers the variety you’d find at any gathering of friends and relatives, each with his or her unique personality and taste…yet different vocal and instrumental elements flow into a single statement of love, friendship, and faith.
Tickets are $50, $40 & $30 plus tax and an online/phone ticketing fee (this fee is waived when tickets are purchased in the Gift Shop). Tickets in the ADA section are for patrons with mobility disabilities and up to three companions. If companion seating is not available because the ADA section is sold out, RCGR will offer other seats as close as possible to the accessible seat, if available, at the purchase price of the other section. Tickets are on sale in the Gift Shop and online.
Hotel packages are available by calling 877-677-3456. Packages are $295 plus tax and include a one night stay in a deluxe king or double queen room, two tickets to the show and two dinners at Robert's Buffet. There are a limited number of hotel packages available.
Doors open at 7pm for the 8pm show.