November 1, 2024
By Ed Masely
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 Americana-themed Dreamy Draw and the mainstream country Desert Sky to the EDM fests Super Unnatural and Better Together and a West Coast hip-hop festival.
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.
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.
