Mickey Guyton is bringing her first-ever headline holiday tour to Houston, and it's the only Texas date on the run. The country star will perform songs from her Feels Like Christmas album at Zilkha Hall inside the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts on December 6, with tickets ranging from $36 to $96.
A 12-City Run With One Texas Stop
The Mickey Guyton and Friends Holiday Tour spans 12 cities, launching November 29 in Atlanta and wrapping up December 22 in Palm Desert, California, according to MusicRow. Houston lands right in the middle of the itinerary, marking Guyton's only scheduled appearance in her home state. Tickets went on sale through an artist pre-sale starting July 28, followed by general public sales on July 31 across platforms including Ticketmaster and AXS, as reported by CultureMap Houston.
The show will feature Guyton and special guests performing selections from her holiday album alongside other festive classics, presented as a night of holiday cheer. Per the ticket listing, the event is subject to change due to weather or other concerns. Guests joining Guyton on stage for the Houston date have not yet been announced.
The Album Behind the Tour
The tour supports Feels Like Christmas, Guyton's first full-length holiday album, released October 24, 2025, on MCA Nashville. The eight-track record includes original songs Sugar Cookie and Mistletoe Kisses along with a duet with Michael Bolton, and it was named among 2025's standout holiday releases by the Associated Press, according to the same MusicRow report. Guyton has said motherhood, following the February 2021 birth of her son Grayson, rekindled her personal joy for Christmas and directly inspired her to write and record seasonal music, as she told Parade.
A Texas Native Comes Home
Born Candace Mycale Guyton in Arlington in 1983, the singer grew up performing in Texas church choirs before relocating to California and eventually Nashville in 2011 to pursue country music, according to WFAA. She is a four-time Grammy nominee, and in 2021 became the first Black female artist nominated for a Grammy in a country category, for Black Like Me, and the first Black female country artist to perform an original song at the Grammy Awards ceremony, per the Rams Head On Stage event listing.
Her résumé of high-profile performances includes singing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVI in 2022, performing her single All American at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and marching in the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In summer 2025 she also placed as runner-up on the Chinese television competition show The Singer, becoming the first American artist to reach that position, before completing a headline concert tour across China in early 2026.
An Intimate Setting Inside a Theater District in Transition
Zilkha Hall, located at 800 Bagby St. in downtown Houston, is a 500-seat proscenium theater with walnut wood accents, split between 350 orchestra seats and 150 mezzanine seats. The Hobby Center notes the hall opened in 2002 alongside the larger, 2,650-seat Sarofim Hall, giving Guyton's Houston date a far more intimate footprint than typical arena tour stops.
The booking also arrives amid changes at the Hobby Center itself. In May, longtime resident company TUTS departed the venue, part of broader post-pandemic financial realignments within Houston's Theater District. TUTS had been a flagship resident there since the center's opening, and touring bookings like Guyton's reflect the shifting mix of programming now filling the downtown arts complex.
