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Actor Dennis Haysbert will narrate this year’s Christmas concert by The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.

With the Wednesday, Dec. 11 announcement on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, both featured performers are now set for the concert’s three-night run in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles was announced in October as the guest artist.

“Dennis Haysbert has an iconic voice and a commanding stage presence, and the choir is excited to join with him in sharing the joy of Christ’s birth with the world,” choir director Mack Wilberg said.

The Christmas concerts, under the direction of Wilberg and Ryan Murphy, associate music director, will be Dec. 19, 20 and 21 in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Tickets, which are free, were distributed through a random ticket selection.

In addition to the three evening concerts, Miles and Haysbert are scheduled to perform during the 30-minute weekly “Music & the Spoken Word” broadcast on Sunday, Dec. 22, at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are not required for the broadcast.

Also for the first time since 2019, the Conference Center will be available at its 21,000-seat capacity after seating restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then construction on and around Temple Square. A standby line will also be available at the Tabernacle on Temple Square 90 minutes prior to the 8 p.m. concerts.

“An audience always inspires the performer,” Wilberg said. “And I think having the conference, and being completely full this year will be just icing on the cake of what we do.”

More about Haysbert and Miles

Born in California, Haysbert has been acting for more than four decades in television and film, receiving accolades for his role first as a U.S. senator and then as U.S. President David Palmer in the television series “24.”

Haysbert also did voice-over ads for BYU football in 2006. His brother Adam Haysbert was a wide receiver for BYU in the early 1980s and was part of the 1984 national championship team.

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