{"id":487313,"date":"2026-11-05T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/487313\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:10:09","slug":"texas-tech-announces-amanda-shires-as-2026-carol-of-lights-headliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/487313\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech announces Amanda Shires as 2026 Carol of Lights headliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock native is heading home for the holidays. Texas Tech announced Grammy-winning artist Amanda Shires will headline the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttu.edu\/campus-events\/carol-of-lights\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ttu.edu\/campus-events\/carol-of-lights\/\">68th annual Carol of Lights<\/a> on Sunday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. with a carillon concert performed from the west tower of the Administration Building. The official ceremony starts at 7 p.m. with a torch-light procession led by the Masked Rider, Raider Red and the Saddle Tramps, followed by performances from the Texas Tech Combined Choirs and Trombone Choir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is free and open to the public. For those unable to attend in person, a live stream will begin at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A Lubbock native is heading home for the holidays. Texas Tech announced Grammy-winning artist...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/FZVMZZZ5MNERXPSSGAPP4GMW4Y.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"433\" \/>A Lubbock native is heading home for the holidays. Texas Tech announced Grammy-winning artist Amanda Shires will headline the 68th annual Carol of Lights on Sunday, Dec. 6(Texas Tech University)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Lubbock native and graduate of Texas Tech who is a Distinguished Alumni Award winner from the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, Shires got her start at age 15 playing fiddle with the legendary Texas Playboys. In addition to numerous solo albums, Shires has collaborated with the likes of John Prine, Justin Townes Earle, and Jason Isbell and is a founding member of country supergroup The Highwomen with Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Maren Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock native is heading home for the holidays. Texas Tech announced Grammy-winning artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163586,23154,447,64,319,251,168,27,29,28,1769,873],"class_list":["post-487313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-68th-annual-carol-of-lights","tag-carol-of-lights","tag-community","tag-events","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}