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Featured guests, along with Ryan Murphy, associate music director of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and Dr. Charles Mulli of Kenya close out the 2024 Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Thursday, December 19, 2024.2024 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.This story appears here courtesy of TheChurchNews.com. It is not for use by other media.
By Christine Rappleye, Church News
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square’s 2024 Christmas concert — “Hope of the Season: Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir”— is being streamed and broadcast on PBS and BYUtv for the 2025 Christmas season.
The 2024 concert featured Broadway’s Ruthie Ann Miles and film and television actor Dennis Haysbert, who shared about the experiences of Charles Mulli as an orphan in Kenya, finding Christianity, building a business and family, events leading to his decision to open his home to more children and now helps homeless children in Kenya. Mulli attended the concerts.
On PBS, the concert has been available for streaming since Thursday, November 27, on the PBS YouTube Channel, PBS.org and the PBStv app.
Mulli runs the Mully Children’s Family, which has 11 locations, with more than 6,800 youth and children in residence. Since 1989, more than 30,000 children have been rescued. Mulli said they also help in the community with providing lunch to local schools.
Mulli and several of the children at his school attended the Nairobi Kenya Temple open house prior to the dedication of the house of the Lord in May 2025, according to the Church’s Africa Newsroom. While in Salt Lake City for the concerts, Mulli met Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The two met again in October in Kenya during Elder Rasband’s ministry there. Mulli also met with several leaders in the Church’s Africa Central Area. Church leaders presented Mully Children’s Family with a large donation to help Mulli in his work, reported the Church News earlier this year.
The Christmas concert includes the 360-voice choir, 90 orchestra members, 32 bell ringers with the Bells at Temple Square, eight trumpeters with Gabriel Trumpet Ensemble and three organists. The choir, orchestra and bell ringers are all volunteers, and each group has audition and attendance requirements.
PBS began broadcasting a recording of the previous year’s concert in 2004. In 2017, BYUtv joined with the choir to produce the 90-minute broadcast specials.
The 2025 concerts performed on December 11-13 are expected to be available next year on PBS and BYUtv.
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(From left to right): Michael Leavitt, president of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square; Ruthie Ann Miles and Dennis Haysbert, featured guests of the 2024 Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert; Dr. Charles Mulli, whose story is shared at the concert; and Mack Wilberg, director of the Tabernacle Choir, at a news conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, December 20, 2024.2024 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.PBS Viewing Times
All dates and times are for PBS Utah. Check PBS.org or local listings as dates and times may change without notice.
- Monday, December 22, 1 a.m., MST
- Wednesday, December 24, 7 p.m. MST
- Friday, December 26, 1 a.m. MST
- Saturday, December 27, 1 a.m. MST
- Sunday, December 28, 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. MST
Also, the 2023 concert “Joy: Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir” — featuring Broadway singer Michael Maliakel and British actor Lesley Nicol, known for her portrayal of Mrs. Patmore in “Downton Abbey” — will air on Monday, December 15, at 8:30 p.m. MST on PBS Utah.
See also pbs.org/show/christmas-tabernacle-choir for broadcast information.
