From the Executive Director

April 2025

Pop culture icon and music legend Barry Manilow announced today that he will once again perform five holiday concerts to raise funds for 25 charities in the Coachella Valley.  

AAP – Food Samaritans is among the beneficiaries, but we MUST be selected at the time of purchase.  

Scheduled to take place at Palm Desert’s McCallum Theatre, Manilow’s A Gift of Love VI concerts will feature his hit songs and holiday favorites for the seventh time to benefit 25 Coachella Valley charities. His past holiday concerts have surprised audiences with a children’s choir, Santa Claus, and even snow!

Concerts are scheduled in 2025 for December 16 and 17 and then again December 19, 20 and 21.

Ticket prices range from $99.99 to $2,500.00 each. The information below describes how much of the ticket price is credited to your organization and what “extra” benefits are included as part of the price.

Gold Tickets - Limited to 40 tickets each night

Gold Tickets sell for $1500 each, with $600 of that automatically credited to the charity of your choice during checkout. Gold Tickets are located in the first three rows of the theatre. Gold Ticket holders are invited to a post-show champagne reception and photo-op with Barry in the theatre’s Founders Room.

Platinum Tickets - Limited to 16 tickets each night

Platinum Tickets sell for $2500 each, with $1500 of that automatically credited to the charity of your choice during checkout. Platinum Tickets are located in the first row of the theatre. Platinum Ticket holders are invited to a cocktail reception (and picture) with Barry in the Backstage Christmas Court.

Non-package Tickets

In addition to the VIP tickets, there are also regular concert tickets priced from $99.99 to $549.99. At the time of purchase, you can designate your favorite charity (from the list of 25) to benefit from the purchase of your tickets. For each of these individual tickets, 25% of the face value is credited to the designated charity.

When you add tickets to your cart and begin the checkout process you will be asked to designate one of the 25 participating charities as the beneficiary of your order.

Tickets will not be available at the McCallum box office.

Mr. Manilow is contributing his performances to the A Gift of Love VI concerts and will not be compensated.

Please designate AAP – Food Samaritans at the time of your ticket purchase to DIRECTLY benefit AAP – Food Samaritans. Choose any ticket price on ANY of the following nights:

December 16 Tuesday 
December 17 Wednesday
December 19 Friday 
December 20 Saturday 
December 21 Sunday 

Barry Manilow is an outstanding member of our Palm Springs community, and we are all so very fortunate that he is so generous.

Please join us in saluting Barry Manilow, and please join us at the McCallum!

Sincerely,

Mark Anton
C.E.O./Executive Director