Sun, Dec 6
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2026 — The Pasadena Civic
Some holiday traditions survive on nostalgia. Mannheim Steamroller survives on the sound. Chip Davis built something in 1984 that should not have worked — synthesizers and electric guitars playing Silent Night, a rock band doing Christmas — and forty-one years later it is still the bestselling Christmas music franchise in history, not because people are sentimental about the ’80s but because the arrangements genuinely hit harder than any version you grew up hearing in church.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.
Some holiday traditions survive on nostalgia. Mannheim Steamroller survives on the sound. Chip Davis built something in 1984 that should not have worked — synthesizers and electric guitars playing Silent Night, a rock band doing Christmas — and forty-one years later it is still the bestselling Christmas music franchise in history, not because people are sentimental about the ’80s but because the arrangements genuinely hit harder than any version you grew up hearing in church.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.
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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2026 — The Pasadena Civic
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Sunday, December 6, 2026
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Some holiday traditions survive on nostalgia. Mannheim Steamroller survives on the sound. Chip Davis built something in 1984 that should not have worked — synthesizers and electric guitars playing Silent Night, a rock band doing Christmas — and forty-one years later it is still the bestselling Christmas music franchise in history, not because people are sentimental about the ’80s but because the arrangements genuinely hit harder than any version you grew up hearing in church.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.
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