Popular dancing violinist returning to Wind Creek Event Center for Christmas
Dancing violinist Lindsey Stirling, who mixes classical music with electronica, hip-hop and pop, and whose albums have topped the dance, classical and indie charts, will return to Wind Creek Event Center for a Christmas show, it was announced Wednesday.
Stirling will perform her Warmer in the Winter Christmas Tour at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9.
Tickets, at $39.50-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the event center box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem, at www.windcreekeventcenter.com and 800-745-3000.
The tour is in support of her first holiday album, “Warmer in the Winter,” which also topped the Classical and Holiday charts when it was released last October and ended up being the No. 2 holiday album for the year.
A statement said the tour will include original songs such as “Christmas C’mon” and “Warmer in the Winter,” as well as holiday classics such as “I Wonder as I Wander,” “Santa Baby” and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.”
Stirling has more than 12 million YouTube subscribers and has amassed more than 2 billion views on her YouTube channel.
With her combination of modern classical meets dance and electronica music, Stirling is known for her ballerina dance moves and fairy appearance as she plays onstage.
Four of her songs have topped the Classical/Digital singles chart, and two — 2012’s “Crystalize” and 2014’s “Shatter Me” (featuring Lzzy Hale) — sold gold.
Her most recent album, “Artemis,” released Sept. 6, already has topped the Dance, Classical and Indie charts and debuted at No. 22 on Billboard’s overall Albums chart — the week’s fourth-best debut.
It already has placed two songs, — the title track and “Underground” — in the Top 40 of the Dance/Electronic chart.
Her 2012 self-titled debut album went to No. 1 on the Dance and Classical charts and sold gold, and “Crystalize” crossed over to Top 20 on the Dance/ Electronic chart. Her 2014 sophomore album “Shatter Me” hit No. 2 on Billboard’s overall Albums chart, went gold and contained the gold Top 10 Dance/Electronica title track.
Her third disc, 2016’s “Brave Enough,” hit the Top 5 and had the No. 1 Classical/Digital single “Something Wild” (featuring Andrew McMahon). That album went on to top Billboard’s year-end Top Dance/Electronic Album list, and made Stirling No. 6 on the Billboard Top Dance/ Electronic Artist year-end list.
Stirling also has collaborated with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and Christina Perri, and her cover version of Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” with a cappella group Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013.
Stirling, 32, got her start as a quarterfinalist on the TV show “America’s Got Talent” in 2010.
In 2017, she finished second on TV’s “Dancing With the Stars” Season 25.
She also has released a memoir, “The Only Pirate at the Party,” with her sister, Brooke S. Passey, that debuted on The New York Times’ bestseller list in 2016.
Stirling performed at the venue, then known as Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in July 2018.