Mindi Abair’s “I Can’t Wait For Christimas Tour”

On Friday, December 6,at 8pm, the Buffalo State Performing Arts Center presents Mindi Abair’s “I Can’t Wait for Christmas Tour”, featuring Lindsey Webster & Marcus Anderson. Grammy nominated, #1 Billboard charting saxophonist and singer/songwriter Mindi Abair has been a multi-genre powerhouse on the smooth jazz and blues charts for over 20 years. Her annual smooth jazz holiday tour tradition started in 2003 with Peter White and Rick Braun. In 2007 the three collaborated in the Top 20 album A Peter White Christmas, which included the perennially popular vocal song “I Can’t Wait For Christmas” that Abair is naming this tour after. Abair is the featured saxophonist on American Idol, has sat in with Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David Letterman as well as with The Roots on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and has garnered twelve #1 radio hits in the jazz and blues world. In 2019, Mindi was nominated by the Blues Music Awards as the Best Instrumentalist: Horn and won the LA Critics Award for Best Holiday Album for All I Got For Christmas Is The Blues. Mindi also wrote the book “How To Play Madison Square Garden & A Guide To Stage Performance,” and has served 10 years as an LA Chapter Governor, President and National Trustee for The Recording Academy. She has toured and/or recorded with Aerosmith, Smokey Robinson, Trombone Shorty, Adam Sandler, Duran Duran, Mandy Moore, Dave Koz, the Backstreet Boys and so many more. Lindsey Webster, is the only vocalist to score two #1 Billboard singles (“Fool Me Once,” and “Where Do You Want to Go”) plus numerous Top Five singles, in a mainly instrumental format. Marcus Anderson has performed with Prince and the New Power Generation, Brian Culbertson, and so many others. He is the holder of multiple #1 airplay hits and Grammy nominations. Abair, Webster and Anderson join the stage together in Mindi Abair’s “I Can’t Wait For Christmas Tour” this December!