Lady Zen Holiday Special Monday 5:30 Show

Lady Zen, one of San Miguel’s best-loved and most versatile singers, was invited in October by Jazz at Lincoln Center to perform for 1,200 spectators at the Rose Theatre, and wowed the audience and the music reviewers. Zen meanwhile sang at the fabled Birdland jazz club in midtown Manhattan, and was a standout hit there as well – so much so that the club has added Zen to its shortlist of guest performers.

Zen’s final San Miguel concert in 2025, before returning to New York, is the singer’s immensely popular Holiday Special, which will be held at Hacienda El Santuario, a luxury boutique hotel in Centro, at Terraplen 42. There will be shows at 5:30pm and 7:30pm on Monday, December 22, and Tuesday, December 23. The Tuesday shows are sold out.

Zen will be performing with a band, and with special guests—among them, Chilean-born singer Katy Chan, a dynamic artist who has been a member of more than twenty musical groups in Chile and Argentina; and virtuoso guitarist and recording artist Román Sebastián. The concert’s honoree, EEESMA School for the Deaf, will have on hand its remarkable sign-language children’s choir.

A Fulbright Scholar mezzo-soprano who as a teenager was being groomed for the Metropolitan Opera, Lady Zen discovered jazz and blues and changed course. Zen combines operatic power with soulful expression. Conductor John Mauceri, who for sixteen years led the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and who has worked with some of the world’s leading vocalists, said of one of Zen’s performances, “I was deeply moved. What a singer!”

For the holiday concert, Zen and company will run the gamut from classic carols (“O Come, All Ye Faithful”) to jazzy standards (“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”) to rock and pop (“Jingle Bell Rock”), among many other musical offerings, in vocal styles ranging from gospel to R&B and soul to operatic.

All seats are reserved. There will be 15 tables, of 6, 4 or 3 seats. The first two rows of tables comprise the VIP section. In addition to preferred seating, a VIP ticket includes exclusive access to the VIP lounge, a meet and greet with Lady Zen, and a holiday gift bag. VIP tickets are 1250 pesos. All other seats are priced at 650 pesos.