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Empress hosts Louisiana Hayride Christmas show

Get in the Christmas spirit with the talented cast of the Louisiana Hayride Show.

After 14 years of successful shows across Western Canada, the cast and crew of the Louisiana Hayride Show are bringing their very special Christmas production to the Empress Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27.

On stage to entertain will be Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Crystal Gayle, Buddy Holly, Shania Twain, Lefty Frizzell and more.

They’ll be singing their big hits as well as their favorite Christmas songs, such as Blue Christmas, Let It Snow, Pretty Paper, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Silent Night, Run Rudolph Run and White Christmas.

In addition to enjoying your favorite characters from the Louisiana Hayride Show and a few of the show’s most popular songs like Ring of Fire, Crazy, Hound Dog, Sixteen Tons, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under, That’ll Be the Day and Pretty Woman, in this special Christmas edition you’ll be treated to the vocals of the Louisiana Hayride cast as they sing as themselves.

Andrea Anderson will bring tears to your eyes with her incredible versions of Oh Holy Night and How Great Thou Art.

William Brookfield is back for this Christmas show and he and Gil Risling do a rendition of Away In A Manger and Gil’s vocals and William’s instrumentation on Hark the Herald Angels will leave you totally captivated.

There are fun songs too like Jingle Bell Rock and Santa Baby.

Woven throughout the songs are fascinating tidbits of information (with a Christmas twist), delightfully presented by host and creator of the show, Lori Risling.

This show will take you on a magical Christmas journey, a delight from start to finish with songs and stories.