20 Things To Know About Christmas With CeCe Winans

CeCe Winans announced the return of her Christmas tour for the 2026 holiday season, including West Coast dates for the first time in more than a decade. Here are twenty things to know about it.

#1. It returns for the 2026 holiday season

CeCe Winans, gospel music and worship — Image credit: sunsets_for_you — CC BY-SA 2.0, via Openverse

The tour was confirmed as coming back, continuing a format she has run periodically across her career.

#2. It reaches the West Coast

For the first time in over a decade, the Christmas run includes West Coast dates, opening it to audiences who have not had access.

#3. Her sisters join her

Angie Winans and Debbie Winans appear as special guests, making it a family production rather than a solo billing.

#4. The Winans family sang together first

With ten children raised by two singing parents in Detroit, family performance is the format she started in.

#5. Christmas suits her voice

Her restraint works particularly well on carols, which reward warmth over power.

#6. Carols are congregational by design

Like hymns, Christmas repertoire was written for ordinary people to sing, which fits her worship-leading instincts.

#7. It follows a heavy touring year

The Christmas run comes on top of her More Than This dates and her largest headlining tour to date.

#8. Three tours in one year is unusual

Sustaining that schedule four decades into a career reflects demand rather than obligation.

#9. The Hymns feeds into it

Her June 2026 album of traditional church music sits naturally alongside Christmas repertoire.

#10. Carols cross denominations

Christmas material is shared across traditions that disagree on much else, broadening the potential audience.

#11. It reaches non-churchgoers

Christmas concerts draw people who would not attend a worship service, which extends her audience each December.

#12. Family audiences attend

The Christmas format tends to bring multiple generations of the same household, which suits her catalogue.

#13. The material is centuries old

Much of the carol repertoire predates recorded music entirely and has survived every change in musical fashion.

#14. She mixes carols with her catalogue

The shows typically pair traditional Christmas material with her own songs rather than being carols alone.

#15. Goodness of God still appears

Her signature worship material features regardless of season, because audiences expect it.

#16. The arrangements matter

How carols are arranged determines whether they sound preserved or alive, which is the central artistic question of any Christmas show.

#17. It is a genuine tradition for some families

Audiences who attended previous runs return annually, which is how a Christmas tour becomes an institution.

#18. West Coast demand had built up

A decade without dates there created a substantial audience that had never had the chance to attend.

#19. It closes her touring year

The Christmas run functions as the endpoint of a calendar that began with spring dates.

#20. It connects directly to her upbringing

Singing Christmas music with her sisters is, in a fairly literal sense, what she was doing in Detroit before any of this started.

The bottom line: The Christmas tour is the most personal thing on CeCe Winans’ 2026 calendar. Performing carols alongside Angie and Debbie Winans is the same activity that filled a Detroit house with ten children, scaled up to a West Coast concert hall.