Eric Clapton Announces Major U.S. Tour Culminating In 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival Presented By Chase
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
OVER 30 OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST GUITARISTS PLAY SIDEMEN TO EACH OTHER OVER TWO NIGHTS AT THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS ARENA,
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, APRIL 12-13
Two-Night Festival To Feature Legendary Music And Collaborations Including: Allman Brothers Band, BB King, Brad Paisley, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck John Mayer, Keith Urban, Vince Gill and many more
(November 19, 2012) – Widely considered one of the world’s all time greatest guitarists and known amongst his peers as a great collaborator, Eric Clapton announced today a major U.S. tour culminating in his fourth Crossroads Guitar Festival presented by Chase. The Festival, which has become legendary in its own right for hosting performances and impromptu collaborations from the world’s most legendary guitar players, will take place April 12-13 for the first time at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. See full listing below of artists performing.
Clapton and his band will visit more than a dozen cities across the U.S. beginning March 14, 2013 (see itinerary below). The tour will end with the two-night Festival where Clapton will gather the past, present and future of guitar music onto one stage for an unparalleled musical event. All profits from the Festival will benefit The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by Clapton for chemically dependent persons. The Festival is presented by Chase.
Since its inception, Clapton’s vision for the Crossroads Guitar Festival has been to create an event where his friends and contemporaries can have fun and perform together for the benefit of a good cause. This year’s Festival will feature two-nights of musical performances with once-in-a-lifetime guitar collaborations. Known as pioneers in their field, the roster of artists spans old and new. The audience can expect unrivaled entertainment, brilliant guitar work, surprise guests and impromptu jams that are the hallmark of these performers.
The first Crossroads Guitar Festival, in June 2004 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, was an unprecedented collection of guitar icons from blues, rock and contemporary music. The sold-out show was chronicled in a 2-disc DVD that has since gone on to become one of the world’s top-selling music DVD’s. The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 and 2010 were the second and third such concerts by Clapton and were staged at Toyota Park in Chicago. Both Festival were filmed for DVDs and met similar acclaim and achieved multi-platinum status. This will be the Festival’s first-ever visit to New York and Madison Square Garden.
“The Crossroads Festival is the realization of a dream for me, to gather a group of amazingly talented musicians to perform on one stage,” said Clapton. “The Crossroads performers are all musicians I admire and respect.”
In addition to the concerts, the “Guitar Center Road to Crossroads Exhibition” will be featured on the Terrace level @ Madison Square Garden and will excite fans with an incredible guitar-centric celebration of past Crossroads Guitar Festivals. This exhibition will feature the “Legends Guitar Walk”, with some of the most valuable guitars in the history of Rock and Blues, including historic guitars from Guitar Center’s Legends Collection featuring Eric Clapton’s two most famous Fender Stratocasters®, BLACKIE® and ‘Brownie,’ Gibson ES-335 as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan’s ‘Lenny’ Fender Stratocaster®, plus selections from Guitar Center, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Experience Music Project. Additionally, Fender, Gibson, Ernie Ball and Martin will host interactive exhibits where guitar lovers can plug in and play new products and classic favorites, while all visitors will be able to peruse memorabilia and watch archival footage of once-in-a-lifetime performances from prior Crossroads festivals on video walls throughout the exhibition. The “Road to Crossroads Exhibition” will open at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 6:00 p.m. Saturday, and is free to all ticket holders.
Tickets for the Crossroads Guitar Festival Presented By Chase will be offered as an advance sale to Chase customers beginning Monday, November 26 at 12pm EST via www.ticketmaster.com through Thursday, November 29 at 10pm.
General Public On-Sale will begin Friday, November 30 at 12pm EST.
Tickets for the Clapton 2013 U.S. Tour will go on-sale beginning November 30, 2012. Please check local venue listings for more detailed information.
For more information go to www.ericclapton.com or www.crossroadsguitarfestival.com
CURRENT CROSSROADS FESTIVAL ARTIST LISTING
(Note: Two Different Nights of Music. Not All Artists Will Perform Both Nights)
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
Albert Lee
Allan Holdsworth
Allman Brothers Band
Andy Fairweather Low
BB King
Blake Mills
Booker T
Brad Paisley
Buddy Guy
Citizen Cope
Dave Biller
Doyle Bramhall II
Earl Klugh
Eric Clapton
Gary Clark Jr.
Jeff Beck
Jimmie Vaughan
John Mayer
John Scofield
Jonny Lang
Keb Mo
Keith Urban
Kurt Rosenwinkle
Los Lobos
Quinn Sullivan
Robbie Robertson
Robert Cray
Robert Randolph
Sonny Landreth
Taj Mahal
Vince Gill
ERIC CLAPTON 2013 TOUR and ITINERARY
Clapton has assembled an impressive band for the 2013 U.S. dates which will consist of long-time touring partners: Doyle Bramhall II (guitar), Steve Jordan (drums), Chris Stainton (piano and keyboards), and Willie Weeks (bass), along with newcomers Paul Carrack (organ and keyboards) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar). Michelle John and Sharon White will join the touring band again as backing vocalists. The tour will also feature special guests, The Wallflowers. Please check local listings for ticketing information.
Thursday, March 14 Phoenix, AZ U.S. Airways Center
Saturday, March 16 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sunday, March 17 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
Tuesday, March 19 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Wednesday, March 20 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena
Friday, March 22 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
Saturday, March 23 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
Tuesday, March 26 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
Wednesday, March 27 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Arena
Friday, March 29 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock Live
Saturday, March 30 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock Live
Tuesday, April 2 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
Wednesday, April 3 Raleigh, NC PNC Arena
Friday, April 5 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Saturday, April 6 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
Friday, April 12 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Saturday, April 13 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
The Crossroads Centre, Antigua
Founded in 1998, Crossroads Centre, Antigua was created to provide treatment and education to chemically dependent persons, those with other compulsive addictive behaviors, their families and their significant others. Treatment is provided through residential care, family and aftercare programs. The pathway to recovery is founded on the movement toward a change in lifestyle. Crossroads Centre, Antigua also operates a 16-bed halfway house in Antigua called the Bevon House (exclusively for Antigua residents) and facilitates a school-based education series, Breaking the Cycle, in all Antiguan schools. The Crossroads Centre has recently expanded its programme to offer transitional living for men, in line with the Crossroads Centre’s philosophy on recovery, at The Sanctuary in Delray Beach, Florida, for those who have completed a residential treatment programme.
www.crossroadsantigua.org
About Chase
Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. Chase serves more than 50 million consumers and small businesses through more than 5,500 bank branches, 17,500 ATMs, credit cards, mortgage offices, and online and mobile banking as well as through relationships with auto dealerships. More information about Chase is available at www.chase.com.
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND HEADLINES THE INAUGURAL SUNSHINE BLUES FESTIVAL 3 DATES IN FLORIDA FOR 2013
2012 BLUES MUSIC AWARDS WINNER
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
HEADLINES THE INAUGURAL
SUNSHINE BLUES FESTIVAL
3 DATES IN FLORIDA FOR 2013
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 – FT. MYERS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 – BOCA RATON
SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 – ST. PETERSBURG
ALL TICKETS JUST $49.50
ON SALE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 / 10AM
Winner of four Blues Music Awards and a Grammy Award for “Best Blues Album” the Tedeschi Trucks Band will headline the inaugural Sunshine Blues Festivalin Florida, playing three dates in the state. Featuring two stages of live bands, the Festival will make its debut at Centennial Park in Fort Myers, Friday, January 18, 2013, with music starting at 12:30PM. Then, Saturday, January 19, 2013, with music starting at 11AM, it comes to Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton in South Florida and finally Sunday, January 20, 2013, with music starting at 10:45AM, at Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg in the Tampa Bay Area.
Tickets for what is destined to become a major annual event for the Sunshine State, the Sunshine Blues Festival, will go on sale Saturday, October 6th at 10AM at www.livenation.com, all TicketMaster outlets or charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000. .
All tickets are best seat in the house General Admission and are just $49.50.
All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable taxes, parking and service and handling charges
“The Blues is where it all began for Modern Music in America,” says Neil Jacobsen, President – Live Nation Florida. “Putting this show together has been a labor of love and we are very excited to bring a world class Blues Festival to Florida as an annual event.”
It has been an amazing year for the Tedeschi Trucks Band or TTB as their loyal fans prefer to call them. In February their album Revelator won the Grammy Award for “Best Blues Album.” Then in July they dominated the Blues Music Awards (formerly the WC Handy Awards) where they won not only Album of the Year, but also took home trophies for Band of the Year, Gibson Guitar Award (Derek Trucks) and Contemporary Blues Female Artist (Susan Tedeschi). True to Truck’s promise, the album delivered a collection of blues-dipped rockers and heart stirring ballads in which the echoes of so many great traditions flowed together naturally, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility. Critically acclaimed as a 4 Star “masterpiece” by Rolling Stone magazine and simply “Outstanding” by USA Today, Revelator broke into the Billboard Top 200 chart at #12, bringing both artists to their highest first week sales and charting of their careers. Their second album, Everybody’s Talkin’ is a double live disc recorded on the band’s fall tour last year. Tedeschi Trucks Band is an 11-member ensemble overflowing with talent and musical familiarity. In addition to Susan Tedeschi (a six time grammy nominee) and Derek Trucks (who is currently #16 on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) the band includes harmony singers Mike Mattison and Mark Rivers, brothers Oteil Burbridge (long time bassist for the Allman Brothers Band) and Kofi Burbridge (longtime keyboardist/flutist with The Derek Trucks Band), a pair of drummers J. J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell, as well as trumpeter Maurice Brown, tenor saxophonist Kebbi Williams, and trombonist Saunders Sermons.
“We are thrilled to be a part of these inaugural festivals in our home state of Florida, and share the stage with some great musicians and friends.”-Derek Truck and Susan Tedeschi
Also highlighting the inaugural bill for the Festival are: contemporary guitar legend Walter Trout formerly with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers; Louisiana slide wizard Sonny Landreth; Allman Brothers drummer Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band; The Wood Brothers, featuring Chris from Modeski, Martin & Wood and his well-known singer/songwriter brother Oliver; award-winning British blues guitarist Matt Schofield; the driving force of urban funk, Big Sam’s Funky Nation; Florida guitar favorite Bobby Lee Rodgers; multiple Grammy and Blues Music Award-winner Joe Louis Walker; the no-frills blend of Chicago, Texas, and Delta blues of guitarist Sean Chambers; and the one and only New Orleans Blues Legend Dr. John (St. Petersburg and Boca Raton only). At last a real Blues Festival that will become an annual event for the Sunshine State!
The inaugural Sunshine Blues Festival headlined by the Tedeschi Trucks Band comes to Florida for three dates in 2013, Friday, January 18 at Centennial Park in Fort Myers; Saturday, January 19 at Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton in South Florida; and Sunday, January 20 at Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg in the Tampa Bay Area. Tickets for the all day event go on sale Saturday, October 6th at 10AM at www.livenation.com, all TicketMaster outlets or charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000.
For more information go to www.livenation.com.
About Live Nation Entertainment:
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and ecommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five ecommerce sites, with almost 27 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally. Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling nearly 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Reveal New Cover Art For Psychedelic Pill — Out October 30th
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Farm Aid 2012
FARM AID 2012 – THIS SATURDAY!
Farm Aid 2012 will be held at Hersheypark Stadium, THIS Saturday, September 22nd. Farm Aid Board Members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews will headline the event. The headliners will be joined by Kenny Chesney, Jack Johnson, Jamey Johnson, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, ALO, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and Pegi Young & the Survivors.
Fans at home can watch a special free webcast presentation of the concert event from Hersheypark Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 8 to 11 p.m. EDT at www.farmaid.org.
In addition to performances on stage, viewers of “Farm Aid 2012: A Backstage Pass” will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Farm Aid 2012, featuring interviews with artists, farmers and fans; demonstrations from the HOMEGROWN Village and a look at Farm Aid’s signature HOMEGROWN Concessions. Click HEREfor more details.
In addition to the webcast you can catch the concert live on Willie’s Roadhouse, SiriusXM Radio Channel 56 and watch Farm Aid’s Blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages for updates from the event.
Mellencamp.com will be on hand for the event. Watch John’s Facebook and Twitter pages for live updates and photos on Saturday!
To become a member of Farm Aid, visit www.farmaid.org. For concert updates, follow Farm Aid on Twitter (@farmaid) and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/farmaid) and visit www.farmaid.org/concert.
Umphrey’s McGee Saturday at Iroquois Amphitheater
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Faces At The Palace
Broadcast LIVE on 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville:
The Louisville Palace, WFPK, and Cul De Sac King Records PRESENT:
Faces @ The Palace Concert Series Launch Party
For the first time ever, The Louisville Palace will be calling on local musicians. The Theatre treasure will open it’s door and broadcast the party LIVE on Friday September 28th for Faces @ The Palace Concert Series (Launch Party).
Kicking off the Faces @ The Palace Series will be heavy hitters The Tunesmiths featuring She Might Bite and WFPK’s DJ Matt Anthony.
Hosted in the Faces Lobby of The Palace, these local favorites will be rockin’ the architectural gem from 9pm-1am. Doors @ 8pm.
Advance tickets are available at The Louisville Palace Box Office
(open Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm) or at the door day of show; $10 admission; 21+
SHE MIGHT BITE is Louisville’s own female version of KISS. The trio has just the right amount of energized romance combined with garage rock and, with new addition Cheyenne Marie Mize, they’re sure to serve up a gnarly mix to please the ear.
Rock and Soul providers, THE TUNESMITHS will bring to The Palace, their genre-bending, timeless material combined with raw energy and power of rock n’ roll guitar, smooth vocals if R&B, and catchy rhythms of soul. This fast growing Louisville band is a must see for all music goers!
www.facebook.com/TheTunesmiths
Host of WFPK’s Friday Night Sound Clash, DJ MATT ANTHONY will kick the evening off right with his ever present world beats, and take over the wheels of steal for an all out dance party.
www.facebook.com/MattAnthonysRecordShop
Faces @ The Palace Concert Series will also serve as the launching platform for new label, Cul De Sac King Records. Following suit, Cu De Sac King Records wants to support local music talent… for FREE, and is seeking to support and collaborate with local artists in an effort to grow Louisville’s music community; Cul De Sac representatives will be on site for Q&A.
Tickets ON SALE NOW @ The Louisville Palace Box Office, or day of show $10 admission/21+
Pink to Play KFC Yum Center February 13
LOUISVILLE, KY (September 18, 2012) – P!nk, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and pop culture icon, announced that she will tour North America for the first time in four years, beginning on February 13, 2013. P!nk is known around the world as one of the most captivating live performers of her generation. The recently named COVERGIRL has confirmed 25 dates for The Truth About Love Tour presented by COVERGIRL in support of her new album, The Truth About Love, available today. The Live Nation produced arena tour is scheduled to begin on February 13, 2013 at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona and will make a stop in Louisville, KY at the KFC Yum! Center on Friday, March 8, 2013.
P!nk is in the midst of a media blitz appearing on the Today Show today, as well as The View and John Stewart’s The Daily Show on September 19. Fans will have the opportunity to chat with P!nk about her upcoming tour live today at 12:00 noon Eastern. To register and participate in the web chat, fans should visit TheTruthAboutLove.com.
Tickets for the Louisville show, $89.50, $69.50, $49.50 and $29.50 (plus applicable fees) go on sale Saturday, October 6 at 10:00 a.m. at www.Livenation.com, www.Ticketmaster.com, the KFC Yum! Center box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. Charge by phone at 1.800.745.3000.
Citi presale infoCiti® cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, September 25th at 10:00am local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
Since her debut in 2000, P!nk (Alecia Moore) has released 7 albums (Can’t Take Me Home, M!ssundaztood, Try This, I’m Not Dead, Funhouse, Greatest Hits So Far!!!, The Truth About Love), sold over 40 million albums, 65 million singles (nearly 20 million digital tracks), over 1 million DVDs worldwide and has had 12 singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. In addition, 15 of P!nk’s singles have reached #1 in at least 1 or more countries. She is the recipient of 3 Grammy Awards, 2 Billboard Music Awards, 5 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 MTV Europe Awards, 2 People’s Choice Awards, and many more. P!nk’s last studio album Funhouse debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and #1 in the UK, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The album produced the smash single “So What”, which marked P!nk’s 2nd #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 (after “Lady Marmalade”). Her latest album, Greatest Hits So Far… debuted in the Top 10 in over 13 countries and spawned the hit singles, “F**ckin Perfect” which reach # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and “Raise Your Glass” which marked P!nk’s 3rd #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. P!nk just released her 6th studio album, The Truth About Love, on September 18th. The first single “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” has sky-rocketed to the top of music charts all over the world and marks P!nk’s 12th Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The deluxe edition of The Truth About Love, will be sold exclusively atTarget, and will offer fans four additional studio tracks. P!nk has teamed up with producer Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foster The People & The Shins) for the very first time on this release along with long time collaborators Max Martin and Shellback, Billy Mann and Butch Walker. She has also worked with songwriter/producer Dan Wilson (Adele’s “Someone Like You”). The album is P!nk’s unique take on the different shades of love – the dark, the light, the happy and the sad.
For additional ticket and tour information, visit: TheTruthAboutLoveTour.com and LiveNation.com.
Umphrey’s McGee at Iroquois Amphitheater this Saturday
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Eric Clapton Announces 2013 UK Concerts Including Five Nights at The Royal Albert Hall
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The Louisville Palace, WFPK, and Cul De Sac King Records PRESENT:
Broadcast LIVE on 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville:
For the first time ever, The Louisville Palace will be calling on local musicians. The Theatre treasure will open it’s door and broadcast the party LIVE on Friday September 28th for Faces @ The Palace Concert Series (Launch Party).
Kicking off the Faces @ The Palace Series will be heavy hitters The Tunesmiths featuring She Might Bite and WFPK’s DJ Matt Anthony.
Hosted in the Faces Lobby of The Palace, these local favorites will be rockin’ the architectural gem from 9pm-1am. Doors @ 8pm.
Advance tickets are available at The Louisville Palace Box Office
(open Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm) or at the door day of show; $10 admission; 21+
SHE MIGHT BITE is Louisville’s own female version of KISS. The trio has just the right amount of energized romance combined with garage rock and, with new addition Cheyenne Marie Mize, they’re sure to serve up a gnarly mix to please the ear.
Rock and Soul providers, THE TUNESMITHS will bring to The Palace, their genre-bending, timeless material combined with raw energy and power of rock n’ roll guitar, smooth vocals if R&B, and catchy rhythms of soul. This fast growing Louisville band is a must see for all music goers!
www.facebook.com/TheTunesmiths
Host of WFPK’s Friday Night Sound Clash, DJ MATT ANTHONY will kick the evening off right with his ever present world beats, and take over the wheels of steal for an all out dance party.
www.facebook.com/MattAnthonysRecordShop
Faces @ The Palace Concert Series will also serve as the launching platform for new label, Cul De Sac King Records. Following suit, Cu De Sac King Records wants to support local music talent… for FREE, and is seeking to support and collaborate with local artists in an effort to grow Louisville’s music community; Cul De Sac representatives will be on site for Q&A.
Tickets ON SALE NOW @ The Louisville Palace Box Office, or day of show $10 admission/21+
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