Light Up Night, Lumaze Top Pittsburgh Weekend Events

PITTSBURGH, PA - It’s been a Pittsburgh tradition for nearly six decades. Comcast Light Up Night, the city’s official kickoff to the holiday season, will bring tens of thousands of people Downtown for free entertainment, activities, fireworks and music all across the Golden Triangle.

The musical headliner for this year’s Light Up Night festivities will be Adam Lambert, who recently toured with Queen. Light Up Night also coincides with the opening of the People’s Gas Holiday Market in Market Square, a shopping village brimming with a wide variety of gifts.

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Other weekend highlights:

• Lumaze, Nov. 23-24, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., 31st Street Studios, Strip District.

Billed as one of the world's largest indoor Christmas festivals, Lumaze is a 100,000 square-foot exhibition with more than one million lights, as well as vendors, live music, food trucks, kids play areas and a bar. We're told visitors might also catch a glimpse of Santa. If you don’t catch it this weekend, don’t worry - the display will be up through the first weekend in January.

• Mister Rogers’ Clothing Exhibit, Nov. 22-24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sen. John Heinz History Center, Strip District.

More than 20 items of Fred Rogers’ clothing is being added to the history center’s “Mister Rogers Neighborhood: exhibit beginning Friday and the timing couldn’t be better. The highly anticipated Tom Hanks movie about Rogers, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” opens on Friday as well.

• Luke Combs, Nov. 23, 7 p.m., PPG Paints Arena

The country music star is appearing in Pittsburgh just two weeks after the Nov. 8 release of his second album, "What You See Is What You Get." Combs' first album, 2017's "This One's For You," produced six chart-topping singles.

• AJR, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., UPMC Events Center, Robert Morris University, Moon

Multi-instrumentalist brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met bring songs such as "I'm Ready," "Weak," "100 Bad Days" and "Burn The House Down" to Bobby U.