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  • Don McLean Announces “American Pie” 50th Anniversary Tour, Adds shows at The Egg, Town Hall with North American Dates

    Don McLean is set to embark on his 2022 50th Anniversary Tour celebrating “American Pie,” with 20 additional cities throughout the United States and Canada. A Grammy award honoree, Songwriters Hall of Fame member, and BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, McLean will entertain fans across America throughout nearly 30 cities from Honolulu to Toronto and everything in between, including stops in Albany at The Egg, and Town Hall in Manhattan.

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    As tragic as the backstory behind the song “American Pie” is with the much too early death of the new rock’n’roll-hope Buddy Holly, the track is also magnificent and legendary. “American Pie” still goes to heart as soon as originator Don McLean plays this classic at his concerts. But the 76-year-old McLean has numerous other hits, including “Vincent (Starry Starry Night),” “Castles in the Air,” “And I Love You So,” and “Cryin’,” all of which will be heard and reveled in along with newer pieces on the upcoming tour.

    After spending the past 18 months at home, I am thrilled to be getting back on the road with my band. 2022 marks the 50th anniversary from when American Pie landed at the #1 spot on the Billboard chart and we will be celebrating on tour all year long. We will be performing all the songs from the American Pie album plus many of the other hits that fans will be expecting to hear.

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    The eight-and-a-half-minute ballad “American Pie” has been making history since its release in 1971, leading to the song being voted “Song of the 20th Century,” alongside songs by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Woody Guthrie, and Aretha Franklin. The handwritten lyrics to the song were auctioned off for more than $1.2 million in 2015, and the composition was added to the Library Of Congress National Recording Registry two years later.

    Over the years, the song has been covered again and again by music icons like Madonna and Garth Brooks. Rapper Drake repeatedly sampled McLean tunes and hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur also cited him as an important influence.

    In 2018, Don McLean released his 19th studio album, Botanical Gardens, which received rave reviews. Songs from it subsequently proved themselves in a live setting may find their way into the setlist next year, alongside “American Pie” and many others. Tickets for the upcoming tour are available now.

    Don McLean 2022 North American Dates

    Jan. 28-30 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii
    Feb. 3 – Clear Lake, IA @ Surf Ballroom
    Feb. 5 – Grand Forks, ND @ Chester Fritz Auditorium
    Feb. 11 – The Villages, FL @ Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center
    Feb. 12 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL @ Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
    Feb. 14-18 – Port Canaveral, FL @ Rock Legends Cruise
    Feb. 19 – Clearwater, FL @ Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
    Feb. 24 – Tucson, AZ @ Fox Tucson Theatre
    April 29 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
    May 1 – Indianapolis, IN @ Clowes Memorial Hall
    May 7 – Toronto, Canada @ John W H Bassett Theatre
    May 12 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
    May 13 – Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall
    May 19 – St. Louis, MO @ Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center
    May 20 – Springfield, MO @ Gillioz Theatre
    June 2 – Albany, NY @ The Egg
    June 3 – Boston, MA @ Shubert Theatre
    June 4 – New York, NY @ Town Hall
    June 11 – Baltimore, MD @ the Lyric
    June 12 – Tysons, VA @ Capital One Hall
    June 17 – Grand Rapids, MI @ DeVos Performance Hall
    June 18 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater
    June 24 – San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
    June 25 – Houston, TX @ Cullen Performance Hall
    June 26 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
    July 7 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
    July 8 – Grand Junction, CO @ the Avalon Theatre
    July 9 – Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre

    Don McLean 2022 European Dates:

    Sept. 11 – Cardiff, U.K. @ St. Davids
    Sept. 13 – Ipswich, U.K. @ Ipswich Regent Theatre
    Sept. 14 – Birmingham, U.K. @ Symphony Hall
    Sept. 16 – Bath, U.K. @ The Forum
    Sept. 17 – Torquay, U.K. @ Princess Theatre
    Sept. 18 – Bournemouth, U.K. @ Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
    Sept. 20 – Brighton, U.K. @ Brighton Dome Concert Hall
    Sept. 21 – Southend-on-sea, U.K. @ Cliffs Pavilion
    Sept. 23 – Manchester, U.K. @ Bridgewater Hall
    Sept. 24 – Gateshead, U.K. @ Sage Gateshead
    Sept. 25 – Glasgow, U.K. @ The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
    Sept. 27 – Edinburgh, U.K. @ Usher Hall
    Sept. 28 – York, U.K. @ York Barbican
    Sept. 30 – Leicester, U.K. @ De Montfort Hall
    Oct. 1 – Sheffield, U.K. @ City Hall
    Oct. 2 – Liverpool, U.K. @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
    Oct. 4 – London, U.K. @ London Palladium
    Oct. 7 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
    Oct. 9 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Concertgebouw de Vereeniging
    Oct. 10 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Koninklijk Theater Carré
    Oct. 14 – Bergen, Norway @ Peer Gynt Salen
    Oct. 15 – Stavanger, Norway @ Stavanger Kuppelhallen
    Oct. 16 – Oslo, Norway @ Sentrum Scene
    Oct. 18 – Göteborg, Sweden @ Lorensbergsteatern
    Oct. 20 – Turku, Finland @ Logomo
    Oct. 21 – Helsinki, Finland @ Kulttuuritalo
    Oct. 23 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Göta Lejon
    Oct. 24 – Malmö, Sweden @ Palladium
    Oct. 25 – Greve, Denmark @ Portalen
    Oct. 27 – Hamburg, Germany @ Fabrik
    Oct. 28 – Neuruppin, Germany @ Kulturkirche
    Oct. 29 – Berlin, Germany @ Admiralspalast
    Nov. 1 – Antwerp, Belgium @ De Singel
    Nov. 11 – Munich, Germany @ Prinzregententheater
    Nov.13 – Linz, Austria @ Posthof

  • Judy Collins Celebrates Winter and Holiday Season With Concert At The Town Hall on December 17

    Judy Collins will celebrate winter and the holiday season with a one-time-only performance at The Town Hall on December 17. This will be Collins’ first official show in New York City since late 2019 and she’ll be joined by Americana group Chatham County Line and special guest Toshi Reagon.

    Collins and Chatham County Line will warmly salute the season with songs from their collaborative album Winter Stories and more. Collins will also debut original songs from a to-be-announced new album to be released in early 2022.  

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    Winter Stories was released in November of 2019, a collection of songs that capture the sounds and feeling of the winter season with new originals and classics such as Joni Mitchell’s “The River.” The “not so Christmas-y seasonal album” (Variety) led to a definitive New York Times profile, was deemed “marvelous” by the Boston Globe and spent four weeks as the #1 album on Billboard’s Bluegrass chart.  

    Despite several months of not touring, Collins did perform at The Town Hall in February of this year, in an empty venue due to the pandemic. She livestreamed the concert and released the recording in August as Judy Collins: Live At The Town Hall. She revisited a very similar set list to the concert she played on that same stage in 1964. Her 1964 Town Hall engagement was her first official solo headline concert in New York City, and was also recorded and released as a beloved album in her catalog (The Judy Collins Concert), performing songs that captured the tumult of the era. 

    Collins remains ever-prolific at 82. She has released five albums in the past five years, and in July launched a podcast that only Collins could host called Since You’ve Asked, in which she has refreshingly upfront, honest and revealing conversations with guests ranging from Jeff Daniels and Clive Davis to Christiane Amanpour. New episodes will debut early next year. 

  • The Hollies Announce 60th anniversary US 2022 tour

    The Hollies, one of the most iconic bands in British music and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees will celebrate their 60th anniversary with a return to the US in 2022.

    The dates mark the band’s first US tour in over two decades and take in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, and Washington DC.

    Famed for their soaring, distinctive melodies and brilliantly crafted songs, the 60th-anniversary tour will see The Hollies performing their best-known hits including ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’, ‘The Air That I Breathe’, ‘Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)’, ‘Bus Stop’, ‘Carrie-Anne’ and ‘Sorry Suzanne’.

    We felt like this is something no other band gets to do, celebrate six decades together, 60 years of this band and these songs means so much to us and so many others.

    Tony Hicks, guitarist

    The line-up includes powerhouse drummer Bobby Elliott, and singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist Tony Hicks, both of whom are original members of the band. They are joined by lead singer Peter Howarth, as well as bass player Ray Stiles, Keyboardist Ian Parker, and Steve Lauri on Rhythm Guitar.

    Celebrated as one of the most influential bands from the 1960s British Invasion era alongside the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Hollies have had over 20 worldwide hits, including number one singles in both the US and UK. They have spent an astonishing 263 weeks in the UK’s top 40 official singles chart, and have been performing continuously since their formation in 1962.

    We’re incredibly excited performing for everyone on what will be some of the most special shows in the history of The Hollies.

    Bobby Elliott, drummer

    Their cultivated musicianship, coupled with the Hollies’ extensive back catalog of memorable rock ‘n’ roll tunes, has ensured the longevity of one of the greatest groups to emerge from the early 1960’s British Rock Revolution.

    In 1995, they have bestowed the coveted Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution To British Music, and in 2010 were inducted into the American Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for their ‘impact on the evolution, development, and perpetuation of Rock and Roll’.

    The Hollies 60th Anniversary Tour Dates

    April 2 – Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
    April 4 – The Kennedy Center, Washington DC 
    April 5 – Town Hall, New York, NY
    April 7 – The Athenaeum, Chicago, IL
    April 9 – The Saban, Los Angeles, CA

    Tickets are on sale now here.

  • Judy Collins to Recreate 1964 Town Hall show

    Judy Collins will perform at The Town Hall in New York City, on Friday, February 12. She is recreating her debut 1964 show from the very same stage, featuring music by Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Billy Ed Wheeler, among others.

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    Collins, an award-winning singer-songwriter is known for her versions of traditional and contemporary folk standards, as well as her own poetically poignant original compositions. Her rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” from her 1967 album, Wildflowers, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Judy’s intimate version of “Send in the Clowns” won “Song of the Year” at the 1975 Grammy Awards, and she has garnered multiple top-ten hits and platinum-selling albums.

    Judy began her music career at 13 as a piano prodigy, but hard luck tales of folk revival music by artists such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger drew her away from a life as a concert pianist. This path led her towards a lifelong love affair with the guitar and pursuit of emotional truth in lyrics.

    Recently, Collins released the 2020 album Winter Stories, featuring critically-acclaimed Norwegian folk artist Jonas Fjeld, and masterful Americana band Chatham County Line. Collins was fêted by contemporary and classic artists, among them Rufus Wainwright, Shawn Colvin, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen, on the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins.

    Speaking about her concert performance on February 12 at The Town Hall, Collins said:

    It was such a tumultuous time in the world. The Vietnam War was just rolling along, breaking into thunder and lightning and anxiety and pain. People were burning their draft boards cards, trying to get to Canada and facing up to going to Vietnam where many of them would die. Making this album and concert at The Town Hall – my very first solo appearance at one of the great concert stages in New York – was a relief and joyous event. It feels right to go back to the material and time period now with the knowledge and life lessons learned in 2020.

    Judy Collins, recalling her debut performance at The Town Hall

    Tickets are $40 and on sale now via Judy’s website.