GEORGE BENSON
RESCHEDULED TOUR DATES
DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND
GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE
JUNE 2021
Royal Albert Hall – June 30th, 2021
The legendary George Benson’s eight UK shows in June/July 2020, have been rescheduled – due to the Coronavirus and Government guidance .
New dates are: June 2021 which includes one night at London’s most iconic venue, the Royal Albert Hall on June 30th, 2021 Tickets will remain valid for the new dates.
The live shows will feature George Benson’s masterful guitar playing, and Benson and his band will perform his Greatest Hits from his impressive back catalogue – which includes such classics as Give Me The Night, Lady Love Me (One More Time), Turn Your Love Around, Inside Love , Never Give Up On A Good Thing and In Your Eyes and more…
Benson’s latest album, the critically acclaimed ‘Walking to New Orleans’, the jazz guitar legend’s tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. This is his 45th album and his first recording since 2013’s ‘Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole’. Rescheduled tour dates below:-
JUNE 2021
17th – Leeds First Direct Arena
21st – Manchester Bridgewater Hall
22nd -Birmingham Symphony Hall
24th – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
26th – Cardiff St David’s Hall
27th – Bournemouth International Centre
29th – Southend Cliffs Pavilion
30th – London Royal Albert Hall
Ticket Prices:
£48 – £68 – Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham and Southend
£55 & £65 – Leeds
£46 – £67.50 – Bournemouth
£45 – £80 with box seats at £90 – London
Tickets are available from www.ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 9991 or from the venues direct
Benson is one of America’s great guitarists, a virtuoso who’s been honoured by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Jazz Master. He’s won a dynamic 10 Grammys, including record of the year for his triple platinum ‘Breezin’. His wins include Record of the Year for “This Masquerade” (1977), Best Pop Instrumental Performance for “Breezin'” (1977) and “Mornin'” (2007), Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for “On Broadway” (1979) and “Give Me the Night” (1981), and Best R&B Instrumental Performance for “Theme From Good King Bad” (1977) and “Off Broadway” (1981)
Nobody has more succinctly described George Benson’s musical evolution than the guitarist himself did in his 2014 autobiography: “…from blues cat to blues-jazz cat…from blues-jazz cat to jazz cat…from jazz cat to soul-jazz cat…and from soul-jazz cat to R&B-jazz cat.”
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