'Waltz'-ing through: Violinist Lindsey Stirling sets holiday show in Rio Rancho

Lindsey Stirling has the holiday spirit – and she’s bringing it to Rio Rancho.

For over a decade, Stirling has navigated her own path with her electronic violin, dreaming up an exquisitely composed yet boldly inventive sound entirely her own.

The violinist/dancer is taking her music from her album, “Snow Waltz," on tour. It will stop at the Rio Rancho Events Center at 8 p.m. Nov. 28.

Public on-sale begins at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 25, at ticketmaster.com. Prices start at $36.50.

On her new album, “Snow Waltz”, the classically trained musician/songwriter/dancer/author finds herself fully in her element, sharing a selection of holiday classics and original songs that evoke intense emotion through her immersive arrangements and mesmerizing melodies.

“On my first holiday album I toyed with more traditional Christmas sounds like big-band music, but this time I wanted to give the songs a more whimsical, pixie-like feeling that’s quintessentially me,” Stirling says. “It’s always a challenge to put your own stamp on a classic song that’s been recorded hundreds of times, and I really loved experimenting with different approaches and making sure that every song felt completely unique to who I am as an artist.”

“Snow Waltz” took shape at her home studio in Los Angeles, where she mainly worked with longtime collaborators like producer Mark Maxwell and orchestrator Stephen Anderson.

“One of the more positive takeaways of the pandemic was learning how to record myself, so that now I can capture ideas right when they come to me,” she says. “I was able to harness my own creativity on the fly instead of having to wait until it was time to meet with a producer, and because of that there’s a sense of freedom that I think you can hear in all the songs.”

Stirling was inspired by the changing of the seasons for the album.

“‘Snow Waltz’ came from thinking about that period of time between Halloween and Christmas where the two seasons overlap,” she says. “I wanted to create something in the same world as ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ or the Harry Potter movies, where there’s sort of a Christmas-y feeling alongside all the spookiness.”