Amy Grant w/ Vince Gill

The Read

Grant and Gill close out their Ryman residency with the city finally slowing down around them. The shape is familiar by now — carols, hymns, a handful of their own songs, guests, a stage that fills up with family and friends as the night goes on. The final show of a run tends to be the loosest and the most sentimental, in roughly equal measure. December 23rd in that room is its own thing. Everyone in the pews is done with the shopping and not yet inside the obligations, which produces an unusually generous audience. Whatever your relationship to the season or the theology, two singers of this caliber doing quiet material in the Ryman is a defensible way to spend the last free night before Christmas.

The Room

Ryman Auditorium

116 5th Ave N

Built in 1892 as a tabernacle by river captain Thomas Ryman, who was converted at a Sam Jones revival — little did he know it would become the church of American roots music.