Pittsburgh among just 13 cities to land Mariah Carey’s Christmas tour

Mike Palm
Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 10:55 a.m. | Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 10:55 a.m.

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Singer Mariah Carey will bring her Christmas tour to Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena in December.

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Mariah Carey performs during the Global Citizen Festival on Sept. 24, 2022, at Central Park in New York.

Mariah Carey, the unofficial Queen of Christmas, will be performing in December in Pittsburgh.

Carey brings her Merry Christmas One and All! tour to PPG Paints Arena on Dec. 5.

The best-selling female artist of all time, Carey is well-known for her holiday songs like “All I Want For Christmas is You” and two Christmas albums.

Tickets for the 13 concerts on the tour — which kicks off Nov. 15 in California and ends Dec. 17 in New York — officially go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster’s website. Various presale events begin at 10 a.m. Thursday.

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In her lengthy career, the 54-year-old Carey has only performed once before in Pittsburgh — on March 18, 2019, at the Benedum Center.

She had been scheduled to play a show with Lionel Richie in 2017 at PPG Paints Arena, but that concert was canceled.