November 1, 2024
By Ed Masley
This year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show superstar Usher is bringing the Past Present Future Tour to Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix for a two-night stand in a month that also features two new festivals at Chase Field – the Hondo Rodeo Fest with Brooks & Dunn, Hanks Williams Jr. and Zac Brown, and November Nights with Weezer and Sublime.
Other festivals of note range from mainstream country at Desert Sky to EDM at the inaugural Better Together fest and a West Coast hip-hop festival with Game.
November also features concerts by Sabrina Carpenter on her Short N Sweet Tour, Cyndi Lauper playing Phoenix on a farewell tour, Mariah Carey celebrating Christmas on the early side and Fuerza Regida playing their third metro Phoenix arena show of 2024.
Here are the best concerts in metro Phoenix in November 2024.
Phoenix Symphony presents ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’
Conductor Alex Amsel leads the Phoenix Symphony through Danny Elfman’s wonderfully eccentric score to Tim Burton’s dual-holiday classic, “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” while screening the acclaimed stop-motion animated musical on the big screen at Symphony Hall.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix. $35-$135. 602-262-6225, tickets.phoenixsymphony.org.
Phoenix Symphony presents Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony
Guest conductor Julian Rachlin leads the Phoenix Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, also known as Sinfonia Eroica, widely held to be a landmark in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras. Rachlin also conducts the folk-flavored Sinfonietta No. 1 by Mieczysław Weinberg, a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer who flourished in post-war Soviet Union.
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia, winner of the silver medal at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, joins the orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s “Variations on a Rococo Theme,” a tasteful work inspired by Mozart.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8-9; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix. $35-$135. 602-262-6225, tickets.phoenixsymphony.org.
Phoenix Symphony presents ‘A John Williams Celebration’
“A John Williams Celebration” kicks off the Phoenix Pops holiday series of family-friendly concerts. Guest conductor Bob Bernhardt will lead the Phoenix Symphony and its chorus as well as the Phoenix Boys Choir in celebrating Williams’ most beloved work, from Superman and Harry Potter to Jurassic Park and the iconic Star Wars saga.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16. Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix. $35-$135. 602-262-6225, tickets.phoenixsymphony.org.
