{"id":7477,"date":"2025-12-18T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/stevie-wonder-cancels-house-full-toys-benefit-concert-1236140692\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:23:12","slug":"stevie-wonder-cancels-house-full-toys-benefit-concert-1236140692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/stevie-wonder-cancels-house-full-toys-benefit-concert-1236140692\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder Cancels House Full of Toys Benefit Concert: \u2018Big Idea, Little\u00a0Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo celebrate the 26th edition of his House Full of Toys holiday benefit concert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/stevie-wonder\/\">Stevie Wonder<\/a> said in a promo video that he was \u201cswitching things up.\u201d Instead of performing for one night, the 25-time Grammy-winning legend would perform across four nights \u2014 Dec. 18, 19, 20 and 21 \u2014 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, however, Wonder is canceling his \u201cbig idea\u201d owing to \u201clittle time\u201d \u2014 with plans to present the benefit concert again next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a statement Wonder read on his L.A. radio station KJLH, he explained, \u201cA week and a half ago I came up with the idea of doing four nights at the Fonda Theatre to raise money for House Full of Toys. Big idea. Little time. So because of that little time, I\u2019ve decided to cancel all four shows. Yet still I will this year put my money where my heart is by giving a substantial donation for the children for House Full of Toys. And next year, we will again do House Full of Toys with the big idea and enough time to put it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPeople who purchased tickets are being emailed about refunds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs per tradition, Wonder\u2019s annual benefit concert asks that attendees bring an \u201cunwrapped toy or unwrapped gift of joy.\u201d Presented by the singer\/songwriter\u2019s nonprofit We Are You Foundation, House Full of Toys helps assist children, people with disabilities and families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn past years, House Full of Toys has welcomed performers such as Lionel Richie, Queen Latifah, Jazmine Sullivan, Anderson .Paak and Ella Mai in addition to Wonder. The 2024 edition of House Full of Toys \u2014 tied to Wonder\u2019s \u201cSing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation\u2019s Broken Heart\u201d tour that year \u2014 featured Jon Batiste, Lucky Daye and El DeBarge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 26th edition of his House Full of Toys holiday benefit concert, Stevie Wonder said in a promo video that he was \u201cswitching things up.\u201d Instead of performing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4799,108,96,94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-genre-rb","category-music","category-music-news","category-rb-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}