Don Amero's, Amero Little Christmas kicks off the holiday season in style!

Review by: Brian Adolph

Photo credits: Derrek Owen

From the opening moments of the show, Don Amero created magic. Strolling through the crowd toward a stage festively decorated and warmly lit by a collection of retro lamps, a sparkly-suited Amero performed a soaring version of Cody Fry’s In From the Cold, instantly bringing the audience into the spirit of the evening.

From its humble beginnings at a café in Osborne Village in 2009, Amero has toured Little Christmas every year to increasingly larger venues. The show occupies a space somewhere between a Michael Bublé Christmas special and Tom Jackson’s Huron Carol. Often poignant, yet always positive and hopeful, Amero’s music and message are a perfect fit for the season.

Sprinkled with fresh takes on seasonal standards like Merry Christmas Baby, Winter Wonderland, and Silent Night, as well as Amero’s own Christmas compositions, the show also featured plenty of good cheer, humour, and a few rockers that had the crowd clapping along.

Joining Amero were Mathew Desoussa on keyboards, Com Cordoviz on percussion, Ben Wieb on bass, and Lachlan McLean on guitar and backing vocals. A special shout-out goes to McLean, who thrilled the audience with spectacular guitar work on Wouldn’t Be Home and Break the Glass.

The spirit of the show could be summed up by something that happened earlier in the day, when Amero—having just arrived from Brandon—grabbed his guitar and walked onto a still-under-construction stage to perform a mini solo concert for a group of Pinawa high-school students. It was a moment that carried all the positive energy of the evening performance and was a great gift to the kids.

Hopefully Amero’s Little Christmas will continue bringing good cheer to the season for many years to come.

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EMCA's next concert brings The Abrams, a country/bluegrass sextet led by brothers James and John Abrams, to the Pinawa Community Centre on Friday, November 23 at 7:30 pm.

Tickets to any of EMCA's remaining concerts this season are available on our website: https://www.emcaconcerts.com/