Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Are Taking Song Requests for a Virtual Holiday Concert

From Prevention

• Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are saving the end of 2020 with an hour-long CBS special, Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event.

• The virtual concert take place on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS.

• Yearwood posted about the special on Instagram asking for holiday song requests.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are saving a 2020 Christmas—by returning to CBS. Over the last nine months, the couple has brought fans joy and entertainment through multiple virtual concerts, and their first was so popular that it crashed Facebook! It’s only fitting that they would host one to spread some much-needed holiday cheer.

The hour-long event, titled Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event, will take place on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS, and of course, they’re taking song requests—as long as they’re holiday-themed!

Yearwood posted about the special on Instagram, and the comments are already flooded with Christmas tunes. Lots of fans want to hear the couple’s version of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and “Mary Did You Know?” as well as “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” “since so many won’t be able to be with their family this year,” one wrote. Other requests include “O Holy Night” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

In April, Yearwood and Brooks hosted their first CBS live concert event, Garth & Trisha: Live By Request! from Brooks’ home Studio G in Nashville, for which they donated $1 million to coronavirus relief. The shift to network television was necessary after their March 23 Facebook Live concert couldn’t sustain its reported five million viewers.

“After we saw Garth and Trisha crash Facebook, we reached out to them about bringing this Studio G to a larger audience in a safe and exciting way,” Jack Sussman, CBS executive vice president of specials, music, and live events said at the time. The special was obviously a hit, and now, it’s time for round two.

“Our viewers loved reaching out directly to Garth and Trisha to request their favorite hits,” Sussman said in a new statement, per People. “It brought some fun and joy directly into their living rooms as they were hunkered down with their families. Now, nine long months later, who better to bring some holiday magic [by] performing some of the greatest holiday songs of all time than Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood?”

There truly is no better duo for the gig. Now, if only we could find a way to make their iconic cover of “Shallow” Christmas-y, because we need to hear it live again.

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