Debby Boone had some great teachers available to her as a performer.

She grew up watching her father, Pat Boone, and she did several tours with her mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney.

Performing with her father and sisters, Boone learned to be prepared and professional, to deal with the rigors of the road and still be warm and receptive to the people she met. She described listening to the simplicity of Clooney’s vocal phrasing as, “a master class and a gift to me that I will be eternally grateful for.”

But those aren’t the only lessons that she’ll put to use when she brings her A Debby Boone Christmas show to Packard Music Hall on Tuesday as part of the Warren Civic Music Association’s 2025-26 season.

“From Rosemary and my dad, I think some of the most important things that I was able to take on, almost by osmosis, was their ability to make an audience feel very at home,” Boone said during a telephone interview on Monday. “(They) would speak to their audience with a familiarity, as if you’re friends in my living room that I’m talking to, and not a stagey, written-out, scripted dialogue between songs. It was just knowing that you have stories to tell to people who haven’t heard them yet, and to talk to them as if you’re just comfortably around a dining room table or sitting in the living room with a crackling fire.

“They both have that ease, and I loved it about them, and I think working with both of them for so many years enabled me to approach my shows in very much the same way.”

Boone did many Christmas concerts with Clooney before her death in 2002, and her Christmas tour offers a mix of holiday standards and more religious Christmas fare with Boone backed by a four-piece band.

“I love some of the popular Christmas songs, I mean deeply love them, and I did a lot of them in Rosemary’s show with her,” she said. “But I also love the carol music and the things that are more based in the spirit of Christmas, the holiday itself, and not just the shopping and the snow vibe, so we weave it all into our shows. I even have some fun footage to share with the crowds from when I took my kids on the road with Rosemary, which is one of my favorite, happiest memories.”

One of Boone’s favorite Christmas songs since childhood is “Some Children See Him.”

She recorded it on her 1989 album “Home for Christmas,” but since she did it with a full orchestral arrangement, she said she probably wouldn’t do it on this tour backed by a smaller band.

Other holiday favorites have taken a different meaning into adulthood. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” became a song she used as a threat as a mother — “You know, Santa Claus is coming. You don’t want to get coal in your stocking.”

Another song like that is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which Boone sang nightly when she starred in a national tour of the musical “Meet Me in St. Louis.”

“It was so bittersweet in that show, and I don’t know that many people think of that song or ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’ as bittersweet,” she said. ” It was written in World War II, when it was the idea of soldiers just dreaming of being home for Christmas. All of these things were not written in a vacuum. I think all of my singing has gotten so much more colorful and has depth just because I’ve lived more life.”

Projects in the works include recording her first live album and hopefully adding a second Christmas album to extensive discography.

In addition to Clooney, Boone has toured with legends like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. She has many acting credits on television along with her musical theater work. She had several country hits in the late ’70s and early ’80s, including “Are You on the Road to Lovin’ Me Again” and “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own.” She has a famous dad and mother-in-law, and that marriage also makes her related to George Clooney (Boone’s husband, Gabriel Ferrer, is George’s cousin).

But if someone only knows one thing about her, it’s that Boone sang “You Light Up My Life,” which spent 10 weeks as the most popular song in the United States in 1977. It won her a Grammy for best new artist, beating recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Foreigner and a couple of other singers from famous families (Andy Gibb, Shaun Cassidy) in the process.

“I’m continually surprised that so many people who come to my shows only really know ‘You Light Up My Life,’ and then they’re so surprised about the connections that I have with Rosemary, and the stories I have about my family,” she said. “They get a kick out of all of the stories, and they really don’t understand what I’m capable of musically. I love hearing people say, ‘I only knew the one song, but I’m going to continue to follow you now that I know what you’re out there doing.'”

If you go …

WHAT: Warren Civic Music Association — A Debby Boone Christmas

WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $45 and are available at the Packard box office and through Ticketmaster.