23rd Annual Christmastide Tour SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin For over 20 years, the SimpleGifts Christmastide Tour has been bringing light to the darkest days of the year by putting the message of peace, joy and goodwill at center stage. Coming into year 23, we are as passionate as ever to send everyone home feeling like […]
Mark your calendars and save these dates! 2025 Christmastide tour announced! Tickets and more details coming soon! Sunday, November 30 – St Michael MN – Le Musique – 7:30pm Friday, December 5 – Lakeville, MN – Lakeville Area Arts Center – 7:30pm Sunday, December 7 – Albert Lea, MN – Firth Lutheran Church of Albert […]
Christmastide 2024 with SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin Over 20 years of arranging, recording, and touring finds SimpleGifts in peak creative mode this holiday season. “We are more passionate than ever about bringing folks together around the traditional carols and hymns that we have lovingly reimagined like no other show,” says band-leader Billy McLaughlin. Celtic whistles, […]
That’s a wrap! Our 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour was magical…and it’s all thanks to you!!! From singing with beautiful choirs, to reuniting with original SimpleGifts members, this season has been one to remember. Thank you for all your support and love through this season and these past 20 years. We wouldn’t still be making music […]
It all started as a quartet in 2003. Carin Vagle, Jeni-Lyn Starr, Billy O and Billy McLaughin played concerts in Milwaukee, Duluth and a handful of shows around the Twin Cities that year. 20 years and 300 shows later, SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin is still ringing in the holidays with Carin Vagle, Karen Paurus, Amy Courts […]
Thank you to all who were able to join us for our 2022 Christmas Tour! It was amazing being back with you all! Keep an eye for our upcoming year-round shows, The Young & The Rest… See you in 2023!
We are so excited that founding-member, vocalist Carin Vagle, will be joining us for the soon to be announced 2022 “The Young and the Rest” concert series. She is the roots beneath so much of the accomplishments of SimpleGifts over the decades. Truly a JOY to have her back on stage making musical magic with […]
We just couldn’t wait until December 23rd to share this terrific performance featuring joyful SimpleGifts favorites captured with multi-cameras in high-def. Thanks to Steve Keller at ProMediaProductions for getting this virtual concert recording ready to share early! We plan on performing live next season but want to share our very best moments to celebrate this […]
Join us every Sunday before Christmas at 4:30pm (central time) for our 2021 Christmastide Fireside Chats with present and past members of SimpleGifts! We’ll enjoy unscripted conversation and answer as many questions as possible that you might send to us so “fire” away to: info@simplegiftsmusic.net! We will also share footage from last year and enjoy […]
Dear Friends, It’s not fun for me to share this news but here it is…all SimpleGifts shows will be postponed through the end of 2021. In the past two weeks not only has Covid sickened band members and their families but it has been clear at the box-office that folks are reluctant to attend upcoming […]
