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i/o The Tour North American shows announced

7th March, 2023

i/o – The Tour will see Gabriel playing new material from his forthcoming album i/o , as well as delving into his peerless catalogue of music, with hits, fan favourites and the unexpected. For the shows, Gabriel will be joined by regular band-mates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché. Additionally, new music from the i/o album is being released on the full moon of each month. The March song release is called Playing For Time.

TICKETS: The general onsale for i/o – The Tour North American leg will start Friday, March 10 at 10am Local Time on LiveNation.com . Fans will have access to a special presale through Peter’s Fan Club mailing list, starting Tuesday, March 7.

If you are signed up to Peter’s Mailing List, you will be sent a link to access the early pre-order, starting Tuesday 7 March at 12 noon EST. If not, sign up today here . Pre-sale ends on Thursday 9 March at 6pm local.

Citi is the official card of the i/o – The Tour . Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets in the U.S. beginning Wed. March 8 at 10am local time until Thursday, March 9 at 6pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com

In Canada, American Express® Cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday March 8 at 10am local time through Thursday, March 9 at 6pm local time. Visit  ticketmaster.ca/americanexpress  to purchase tickets.  Ticket limits & terms apply.

VIP: Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, access to the pre-show lounge, limited edition gift item & more. For more information, visit  vipnation.com .

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Peter Gabriel Set to Release New Album, His First in 20 Years, Tour in 2023

by Tina Benitez-Eves June 6, 2022, 8:41 am

Peter Gabriel is set to release his first new album in 20 years later in 2022 with a tour to follow.

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Gabriel’s longtime drummer Manu Katché said the band is finishing a new album, which they will take on a world tour in 2023.

Earlier in 2022, Gabriel said that he had “a lot of songs I’m trying to get finished” and is hoping to have something out by the end of the year. In 2021, Gabriel also posted a series of photos featuring himself with Katché along with guitarist David Rhodes and bassist Tony Levin, in a recording studio at his Real World Studios in Bath, England.

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Gabriel recently said that he and his band had worked on 17 songs in 10 days at the studio.

“I’m excited by what is being cooked at the moment,” said Gabriel in a 2020 interview, first teasing the new music. “I have been slowed down quite a lot by lockdown,” said Gabriel at the time.”We’ve not been able to have Dickie [Richard Chappell], my engineer here, but I have enough songs that I like to make a record I’m proud of.”

Famous for taking his time in between releases, the working title of the new album is I/O and comes 20 years since Gabriel’s ninth album Up , which took him nearly a decade to complete.

Photo: Real World Records

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Peter Gabriel announces North American tour dates and shares new single “Playing For Time”

Peter Gabriel has revealed details for his long-awaited North American leg of i/o – The Tour, a 2023 run across Europe and North America this spring and fall. Produced by Live Nation, the newly announced dates will find Peter Gabriel performing in Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston.

i/o – The Tour will see Gabriel playing new material from his forthcoming album i/o, as well as delving into his peerless catalogue of music, with hits, fan favourites and the unexpected. For the shows, Gabriel will be joined by regular band-mates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché. Additionally, new music from the i/o album is being released on the full moon of each month. The March song release is called Playing For Time.

TICKETS: The general onsale for i/o – The Tour North American leg will start Friday, March 10 at 10am Local Time on LiveNation.com. Fans will have access to a special presale through Peter’s Fan Club mailing list, starting Tuesday, March 7.

Gabriel has also released the 3rd track from the upcoming album titles “Playing For Time” which you can check out here:

Full tour dates with Europe/UK and North America below: 05-18 Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena 05-20 Verona, Italy – Verona Arena 05-21 Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Arena 05-23 Paris, France – AccorHotels Arena 05-24 Lille, France – Stade Pierre-Mauroy 05-26 Berlin, Germany – Waldbuehne 05-28 Munich, Germany – Koenigsplatz 05-30 Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena 05-31 Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena 06-02 Bergen, Norway – Koengen 06-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 06-06 Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis 06-08 Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion 06-10 Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena 06-12 Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena 06-13 Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle 06-15 Bordeaux, France – Arkea Arena 06-17 Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena 06-19 London, England – The O2 06-22 Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro 06-23 Manchester, England – AO Arena 06-25 Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena

North America 09-08 Quebec City, Quebec – Videotron Centre 09-09 Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Tire Centre 09-11 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena 09-13 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre 09-14 Boston, Massachusetts – TD Garden 09-16 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Wells Fargo Center 09-18 New York, New York – Madison Square Garden 09-30 Chicago, Illinois – United Center 10-07 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena 10-08 Seattle, Washington – Climate Pledge Arena 10-11 San Francisco, California – Chase Center 10-13 Inglewood, California – Kia Forum

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Peter Gabriel Reveals Details of i/o – The Tour North America Leg

12 Cities Added On Highly Anticipated Tour with More Cities and Shows to Be Announced Soon

Tickets available starting today with fan club presale, general onsale begins friday, march 10 at 10am local on  livenation.com.

Today,  Peter Gabriel  announces details for his long-awaited North American leg of  i/o – The Tour,  a 2023 run across Europe and North America this spring and fall. Produced by Live Nation, the newly announced dates will find Peter Gabriel performing in Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston.

i/o – The Tour  will see Gabriel playing new material from his forthcoming album  i/o , as well as delving into his peerless catalogue of music, with hits, fan favourites and the unexpected. For the shows, Gabriel will be joined by regular band-mates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché. Additionally, new music from the  i/o album is being released on the full moon of each month. The March song release is called Playing For Time.

TICKETS:  The general onsale for  i/o – The Tour  North American leg will start Friday, March 10 at 10am Local Time on  LiveNation.com . Fans will have access to a special presale through Peter’s Fan Club mailing list, starting Tuesday, March 7. 

Citi is the official card of the  i/o – The Tour . Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets in the U.S. beginning Wed. March 8 at 10am local time until Thursday, March 9 at 6pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com

In Canada, American Express® Cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday March 8 at 10am local time through Thursday, March 9 at 6pm local time. Visit  ticketmaster.ca/americanexpress  to purchase tickets.  Ticket limits & terms apply.

VIP:  Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, access to the pre-show lounge, limited edition gift item & more. For more information, visit  vipnation.com .

Tickets for all European shows are available now at  petergabriel.com .

i/o – The Tour 

May 18                         Krakow, Poland                        TAURON Arena

May 20                        Verona, Italy                             Verona Arena

May 21                         Milan, Italy                                 Mediolanum Arena

May 23                        Paris, France                             Accor Arena

May 24                        Lille, France                              Stade Pierre-Mauroy

May 26                         Berlin, Germany                       Waldbuehne

May 28                        Munich, Germany                     Koenigsplatz

May 30                        Copenhagen, Denmark           Royal Arena

May 31                         Stockholm, Sweden                 Avicii Arena

June 2                         Bergen, Norway                       Koengen

June 5                         Amsterdam, Netherlands        Ziggo Dome

June 6                         Antwerp, Belgium                    Sportpaleis

June 8                         Zurich, Switzerland                  Hallenstadion

June 10                        Cologne, Germany                   Lanxess Arena

June 12                        Hamburg, Germany                 Barclays Arena

June 13                        Frankfurt, Germany                  Festhalle

June 15                        Bordeaux, France                     Arkea Arena

June 17                        Birmingham, UK                       Utilita Arena

June 19                        London, UK                               The O2

June 20                       Nottingham, UK                       Motorpoint Arena

June 22                       Glasgow, UK                             OVO Hydro

June 23                        Manchester, UK                        AO Arena

June 25                       Dublin, Ireland                          3Arena

September 8               Quebec City, Quebec             Videotron Centre 

September 9               Ottawa, Ontario                       Canadian Tire Centre

September 11               Toronto, Ontario                      Scotiabank Arena

September 13              Montreal, Quebec                   Bell Centre

September 14              Boston, Massachusetts           TD Garden

September 16              Philadelphia, Pennsylvania      Wells Fargo Center

September 18              New York, New York               Madison Square Garden

September 30             Chicago, Illinois                       United Center

October 7                    Vancouver, British Columbia   Rogers Arena

October 8                    Seattle, Washington                Climate Pledge Arena

October 11                   San Francisco, California         Chase Center

October 13                   Los Angeles, California           Kia Forum

For complete tour and ticket information, VIP Packages and more visit:   www.livenation.com  and   www.petergabriel.com .

About Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel  first came to international prominence with the success of Genesis, a band that he co-founded while still at school. Since leaving Genesis in 1975, his recording career has included eleven studio albums, film soundtracks for Alan Parker’s ‘Birdy’, Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ and Philip Noyce’s ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ as well as numerous live albums. His wider musical career has included multiple Grammy Awards, the world-renowned Real World Studios, the formation of the Real World Records label, and in 1980 the creation of WOMAD, the festival that has launched the careers of many artists from around the world and has just celebrated its 40 th  anniversary.

Peter Gabriel co-founded the human rights organization WITNESS (Witness.org) in 1992, the organization that pioneers the use of cameras and technology in human rights campaigning, and in 2007, alongside Sir Richard Branson, he founded The Elders (theelders.org) which was launched by Nelson Mandela.  In 2006, Peter Gabriel was awarded the prestigious Man of Peace title by The Nobel Peace Laureates and in 2008 was also included in the Time 100 list. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice. He remains engaged in a wide variety of tech-based businesses throughout a variety of creative industries.

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Peter Gabriel has announced 13 additional tour dates to his North American run in September and October. The musician, who recently shared another new song, “Playing For Time,” from his extremely long-awaited new album, i/o , will now hit cities like Cleveland, Dallas, and Denver.

Gabriel still hasn’t shared an official release date for i/o , which will be his first album of all new material since 2002’s Up (more recent releases, like Scratch My Back and New Blood , have featured cover songs and new orchestral versions of his own material). Despite that lack of a release date, however, Gabriel’s scheduled a full-fledged tour in support of i/o , starting with a European run in May.

“Playing for Time (Dark-Side Mix)” is a sweeping ballad that finds Gabriel, as he put it in a statement, meditating on “time, mortality and memories and the idea that each of us has a planet full of memories, which get stashed inside the brain.” The song features Tom Cawley on piano, while Ed Shearmur handled the orchestral arrangement, recording those parts with several players featured in Gabriel’s New Blood Orchestra. 

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Like Gabriel’s last two i/o releases — “Panopticon” and “The Court” — “Playing for Time” was released to coincide with the full moon. And also like those last two releases, Gabriel will release a couple of different mixes of “Playing for Time” later this month: The “Dark-Side” mix out today was handled by Tchad Blake, while Mark “Spike” Stent and Hans-Martin Buff helmed the “Bright-Side Mix” and “Atmos In-Side Mix,” respectively. 

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Peter Gabriel i/o album cover (Photo: Nadav Kander)

If it seems like Peter Gabriel has been top of mind to classic rock fans throughout 2023, then he’s accomplished his goal. Beginning on January 6 with a song called “Panopticom” and continuing literally on every full moon throughout the rest of the year, Gabriel shared a new track—12 in all—from i/o , his first studio album of new material since 2002. The twelfth and final track, “Live and Let Live,” arrived on November 27. In between were not just 10 other songs, from the haunting “Love Can Heal” to the up-tempo “Olive Tree” and the stunning “Playing For Time.” For Gabriel also managed to perform two separate legs of his first solo outing since 2014, in which he presented most of the songs from the new LP as well as his extensive catalog. Funnily enough, despite his busy calendar and the monthly drip, drip, drip of a new song, the acclaimed musician didn’t reveal the full details of i/o until Oct. 18—nearly a year after he released its first song. The album, which arrived on Dec. 1, was recorded mostly at Real World Studios and at his home. All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix, handled by Mark “Spike” Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix, as reshaped by Tchad Blake. “We have two of the greatest mixers in the world in Tchad and Spike and they definitely bring different characters to the songs,” Gabriel said. As a result, i/o will thus be released as a 2-CD set. It is also be available as a 2-CD + Blu-ray with the In-Side Mix (Dolby Atmos) and 24/96 hi-res stereo mixes; and as two separate 2-LP sets. (A 4-LP, 2-CD + Blu-ray box set will be released on March 8, 2024.)

The album features a vast personnel: Gabriel has kept his trusty inner circle of musicians close to hand, which means guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché are presences throughout. Several songs bear the fingerprints of long-time associate Brian Eno, while there are contributions from Richard Russell, pianist Tom Cawley, trumpeters Josh Shpak and Paolo Fresu, cellist Linnea Olsson and keyboard player Don E.

Gabriel’s daughter Melanie contributes backing vocals, as does Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath, while Real World regulars Richard Chappell, Oli Jacobs, Katie May and Richard Evans collectively provide programming and play various instruments. Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar lend their harmonies to a selection of tracks, along with the mass strings of the New Blood Orchestra, led by John Metcalfe.

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Peter Gabriel i/o Tracklist Panopticom The Court Playing for Time i/o Four Kinds of Horses Road to Joy So Much Olive Tree Love Can Heal This Is Home And Still Live And Let Live

Gabriel pre-promoted the album with an extensive tour that began in Europe on May 18 and resumed with a North American edition that began on Sept. 8 and concluded on Oct. 21. The first track, “Panopticom,” was released at midnight on Jan. 6, nearly two months after he announced plans for the tour on Nov. 8, 2022. “i/o The Tour” saw Gabriel playing new material from the forthcoming album, as well as delving into his extensive catalog of music, with hits, fan favorites and “the unexpected.”

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“After a years-worth of full moon releases, I’m very happy to see all these new songs back together on the good ship i/o and ready for their journey out into the world,” he said in the announcement.

“Live and Let Live” was the last to be written for the album. Gabriel describes it as a song about forgiveness. “There’s… a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who’d been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time,” Gabriel wrote. “He said he felt some of the old fear and hatred swelling up inside him but when he thought hard about it, he realized that he needed to find a way to work with these people, to build what he called his rainbow coalition. He needed to feel their humanity and ultimately to find a way to forgive them. He was quite sure that if he couldn’t forgive them and find a way to work with them, that he would remain their prisoner for the rest of his days.”

“And Still,” released on Oct. 28, and in memory of his mother, is one of the most personal songs Gabriel has written. “I was trying to write a little bit in the style of the music that my parents responded to, so I think there is some music from the 40s probably that had an influence on the song. In the middle I wanted to write my mum a beautiful melody. She loved classical music, so we have a beautiful cello playing there. It took a while to get that right, it can’t be too emotional or too underplayed, but I think we got there in the end.”

Gabriel calls “This Is Home,” which arrived on September 29, “a love song. It began with inspiration from some of the great Tamla Motown rhythm sections so we’re trying to recreate that in a modern way, complete with the tambourine and handclaps. The groove I like a lot, Tony Levin does a great bass part there.

“I did an unusual thing for me in that I tried doing this low voice / high voice thing, so you get this almost conversational voice at the beginning and the second part is a higher, more emotional voice. I thought that would be both intimate and emotive to put the two side by side.”

The previous track, “Love Can Heal,” shared on Aug. 31, actually had its live premiere during Gabriel and Sting’s “Rock, Paper, Scissors” tour of North America of 2016.

“‘Love Can Heal’ was written around 2016,” says Gabriel. “I started playing it midway through the tour and dedicated it to Jo Cox, who was the British MP brutally murdered by an extremist and someone that I had met at a leadership conference. I think the song fits right in to the themes of the album in the sense that i/o is about feeling and being connected to everything and in a way, the next evolution of being connected to things is a feeling of love for everything.”

“Olive Tree” provides another up-tempo moment for the i/o album. “I wanted it to have some speed to it but I also wanted some mystery, too,” says Gabriel. “I think it is a celebration in a way and there’s a real sense of being alive.”

Written and produced by Gabriel, the previous track, “So Much,” features a string arrangement from John Metcalfe and contributions from Tony Levin on bass, David Rhodes on guitar and backing vocals from Peter’s daughter Melanie Gabriel.

“I was trying purposefully not to be clever with this,” says Gabriel. “I wanted to get a very simple chorus but one which still had some substance to the harmony and melody. Something that was easy to digest but still had a bit of character to it.

“‘So Much’ is about mortality, getting old, all the bright, cheerful subjects, but I think when you get to my sort of age, you either run away from mortality or you jump into it and try and live life to the full and that always seems to make a lot more sense to me. The countries that seem most alive are those that have death as part of their culture.”

The previous track, “Road to Joy,” features the Soweto Gospel Choir, a string arrangement from John Metcalfe and contributions from a number of Gabriel’s current touring band. The song is one of the last tracks to emerge for the i/o record, but it has some DNA from an earlier project. “It was actually very late in the record that we got to this,” says Gabriel. There had been a song that musically I’d started, I think, around the OVO project called Pukka. It was very different to this, but it was actually the starting point for coming back to this song. I just felt there was a good groove there, and I wanted something else with rhythm and so we tried a few things when I was working with Brian Eno. The excitement and energy in the song was something that I was getting off on. I felt we didn’t have enough of that for this record.”

Watch Gabriel and his band perform “Road to Joy” on the 2023 tour

The fifth track released, “Four Kinds of Horses,” “actually began on Richard Russell’s project ‘Everything Is Recorded,’ said Gabriel in a May 5 post. “He’s a friend (and founder of XL Records) and he asked me to pop in to his studio. I came up with some chords, melodies and words on top of a groove he was working on. We tried a few things that didn’t altogether work and so it laid dormant for quite a while. Then I started playing around with it again and changed the mood and the groove and something else began to emerge with a better chorus.”

When he released the title track on April 6, he noted, “This month the song is ‘i/o’ and ‘i/o’ means input/output. You see it on the back of a lot of electrical equipment and it just triggered some ideas about the stuff we put in and pull out of ourselves, in physical and non-physical ways,” says Gabriel. The song features Soweto Gospel Choir, who were recorded at High Seas Studios in South Africa.

Of the album, Gabriel says, “It’s been around for a long time as a title for this project. I always knew I was going to write a song called i/o, but the title came first.”

“‘Playing For Time,'” says Gabriel of the stunning third track, “is a song that I have been working on for a long time and have performed live, without lyrics, so some people may be familiar with it. It’s been an important song for me. It’s about time, mortality and memories and the idea that each of us has a planet full of memories which get stashed inside the brain.

“It is more of a personal song about how you assemble memories and whether we are prisoners of time or whether that is something that can actually free us. I do think it’s good to push yourself towards more bold or interesting experiences because then you will have richer memories to feed you when you get to my age. You also get taught by every meaningful experience that you go through.” Order an mp3 of “Playing For Time” in the U.S.  here  and in the U.K. here .

Of “The Court,” Gabriel says, he was inspired by the work of Namati, whose mission is to provide people around the world access to justice they may not otherwise be able to afford. “I had this idea for ‘the court will rise’ chorus, so it became a free-form, impressionistic lyric that connected to justice, but there’s a sense of urgency there. A lot of life is a struggle between order and chaos and in some senses the justice or legal system is something that we impose to try and bring some element of order to the chaos. That’s often abused, it’s often unfair and discriminatory but at the same time it’s probably an essential part of a civilized society.” Listen to the song as well as an extended feature on the track. “I’m an old drummer; I still love to find a groove,” he says.

The European dates marked his first shows outside of North America since 2014’s tour celebrating the era-defining album So . “It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there,” said Gabriel in the original Nov. 8 tour announcement.

Produced by Live Nation, the 22 shows in Europe kicked off on May 18 before wrapping on June 25. The touring band includes Gabriel veterans Tony Levin (bass), Richard Evans (guitar, flute), Manu Katché (drums), and David Rhodes (guitar), plus newcomers Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello, piano, vocals), Marina Moore (violin, viola, vocals), Don McLean (keyboards), and Josh Shpak (trumpet, french horn, keys, vocals). Our recap of the tour’s opening night.

In December, Gabriel previewed the first release, “Panopticom,” and the tour for members of his fan club.

“Panopticom” references an idea that Gabriel has been working on to initiate the creation of an infinitely expandable accessible data globe. The aim is to “allow the world to see itself better and understand more of what’s really going on.”

Listen to the Bright Side Mix of “Panopticom,” the first song released from i/o

“I’m lucky to have two of the world’s best mix engineers, Tchad Blake and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, working with me on the music from i/o ,” Gabriel wrote on Jan. 21. “Rather than choosing only one of their mixes to release I have decided that people should be able to hear all the great work that they are both doing.”

From the song’s original Jan. 6 announcement: The release of “Panopticom” on the full moon is no coincidence and in true Gabriel fashion the approach for i/o will be a little different from the norm. The lunar phases guided the release plan in 2023, with a new song revealed each full moon.

Gabriel turned 73 on Feb. 13.

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brief comment: a dear friend in Houston took me to one of Peter’s concert and it was a shamanic/mystical/spiritual/religious/soulful [soul full]/communal/rocking/glorious/elegant musical and artistic experience…unique as all great concerts are…I can only imagine his lineup of concerts will only be the same..the world now desperately needs its artists to bring healing art beauty and community back to us…Peter is one of the best!

09.01.2023. I’m going to see Peter Gabriel in NYC MSG September 2023. Looking forward to it. Hope he plays the following songs Steam, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and Shock The Monkey. I saw Genesis 3X and once Phil Collins. Can’t wait.

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Peter Gabriel announces rare North American tour in support of new album “i/o”

Peter Gabriel today announced a North American tour — his first in more than a decade — in support of his forthcoming new studio album i/o , unveiling 12 dates in the U.S. and Canada this September and October with at least a dozen more shows to come.

The shows announced today follow Gabriel’s previously unveiled European tour this May and June, and begin Sept. 8 in Quebec and run through an Oct. 13 concert in Los Angeles, with stops in between in Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago and more.

See full dates below.

A presale for those shows begins at noon Eastern today, March 7 — with the general on-sale following at 10 a.m. local time Friday, March 10. See petergabriel.com for full ticketing details.

But there will be more North American shows. In email to fans, Gabriel’s team advises: “Stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston.”

The tour will find Gabriel joined by longtime bandmates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché.

Gabriel has not yet announced a release date for i/o , his first album of new music since 2002’s Up . But he has released several new songs, including “Panopticom,” “The Court” and — just this week — “Playing for Time.”

You can hear all three of those new tracks below.

Peter Gabriel 2023 tour dates

EUROPE May 18: Krakow, PL – Tauron Arena May 20: Verona, IT – Verona Arena May 21: Milan, IT – Mediolanum Arena May 23: Paris, FR – AccorHotels Arena May 24: Lille, FR – Stade Pierre-Mauroy May 26: Berlin, DE – Waldbuehne May 28: Munich, DE – Koenigsplatz May 30: Copenhagen, DK- Royal Arena May 31: Stockholm, SE – Avicii Arena June 2: Bergen, NO – Koengen June 5: Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome June 6: Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis June 8: Zurich, CH – Hallenstadion June 10: Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena June 12: Hamburg, DE – Barclays Arena June 13: Frankfurt, DE – Festhalle June 15: Bordeaux, FR – Arkea Arena June 17: Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena June 19: London, UK – The O2 June 22: Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro June 23: Manchester, UK – AO Arena June 25: Dublin, IE – 3Arena

NORTH AMERICA Sept. 8: Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre Sept. 9: Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre Sept. 11: Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena Sept. 13: Montreal, QC – Bell Centre Sept. 14: Boston, MA – TD Garden Sept. 16: Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center Sept. 18: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden Sept. 30: Chicago, IL – United Center Oct. 7: Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena Oct. 8: Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena Oct. 11: San Francisco, CA – Chase Center Oct. 13: Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum

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Peter Gabriel Plans World Tour For First New Original Album In 20 Years

Peter Gabriel  will return to the road for the first time since 2016 when he travels Europe and the U.K. this spring and summer, kicking off a world tour behind a new album. Titled i/o , the former  Genesis  singer’s first collection of new, original material will arrive next year.

i/o  comes following Gabriel’s previous effort of reworked originals on 2011’s orchestral New Blood  and the 2010 cover album Scratch My Back , featuring songs by David Byrne ,  Paul Simon ,  Talking Heads ,  Radiohead , and many more. Prior to that, Gabriel’s last album of new original material was 2002’s  Up . He also contributed to the new  Leonard Cohen  tribute album,  Here It Is , offering a cover of the title track.

“It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin,” Gabriel said. “Look forward to seeing you out there.”

The tour will see the singer-songwriter backed by his band of bassist Tony Levin, drummer Manu Katché , and guitarist David Rhodes . The tour begins in Poland in May before moving through Europe and the U.K. and Ireland in June. North American dates in late summer and fall 2023 will be announced at a later date. Tickets for the European tour dates go on sale on Friday via Live Nation . Fans signed up for the artist’s mailing list can access a pre-sale open now.

Peter Gabriel  i/o The Tour 2023 Tour Dates:

05-18 Krakow, Poland – TAURON Arena 05-20 Verona, Italy – Verona Arena 05-21 Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Arena 05-23 Paris, France – AccorHotels Arena 05-24 Lille, France – Stade Pierre-Mauroy 05-26 Berlin, Germany – Waldbuehne 05-28 Munich, Germany – Koenigsplatz 05-30 Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena 05-31 Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena 06-02 Bergen, Norway – Koengen 06-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 06-06 Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis 06-08 Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion 06-10 Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena 06-12 Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena 06-13 Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle 06-15 Bordeaux, France – Arkea Arena 06-17 Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena 06-19 London, England – The O2 06-22 Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro 06-23 Manchester, England – AO Arena 06-25 Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena

PETER GABRIEL ANNOUNCES FULL RELEASE DETAILS FOR I/O – HIS FIRST ALBUM OF NEW MATERIAL IN OVER 20 YEARS

AVAILABLE DECEMBER 1

A 12-TRACK ALBUM AVAILABLE IN TWO STEREO MIXES, BOTH VERSIONS ON A DOUBLE-CD PACK, AND SEPARATELY AS DOUBLE VINYL LPS

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‘After a years-worth of full moon releases, I’m very happy to see all these new songs back together on the good ship i/o and ready for their journey out into the world.’ – Peter Gabriel

18 OCTOBER 2023 (TORONTO, ON) - At the end of a year in which Peter Gabriel has released a new song on the occasion of every full moon, as well as performed live to rapturous audience throughout the UK, Europe and North America, December 1 st sees the release of his much-anticipated new studio album, i/o .

i/o is 12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe. Our connection to the world around us – ‘I’m just a part of everything’ Peter sings on title track i/o – is a recurring motif, but so too the passing of time, mortality and grief, alongside such themes as injustice, surveillance and the roots of terrorism. But this is not a solemn record. While reflective, the mood is never despondent; i/o is musically adventurous, often joyous and ultimately full of hope, topped off as it is, by the rousingly optimistic closing song, Live and Let Live.  

Recorded mostly at Real World Studios and Peter’s home studio, the lengthy gestation of i/o means it has a sizeable cast list. Peter has kept his trusty inner circle of musicians close to hand, which means guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché are sterling presences throughout. Several songs bear the fingerprints of long-time associate Brian Eno, whilst there are notable contributions from Richard Russell, pianist Tom Cawley, trumpeters Josh Shpak and Paolo Fresu, cellist Linnea Olsson and keyboard player Don E. Peter’s daughter Melanie contributes warm backing vocals, as does Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath, while Real World regulars Richard Chappell, Oli Jacobs, Katie May and Richard Evans collectively provide programming and play various instruments. Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar lend their magnificent harmonies to a selection of tracks, and the mass strings of the New Blood Orchestra, led by John Metcalfe, both soothe and soar.

Renowned for being a boundary-pushing artist, i/o is not simply a collection of a dozen songs. All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix, handled by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix, as reshaped by Tchad Blake. “We have two of the greatest mixers in the world in Tchad and Spike and they definitely bring different characters to the songs. Tchad is very much a sculptor building a journey with sound and drama, Spike loves sound and assembling these pictures, so he’s more of a painter.” Both versions are included on the double-CD package, and are also available separately as double vinyl albums. And that’s not all. A third version – the In-Side Mix, in Dolby Atmos, comes courtesy of Hans-Martin Buff “doing a wonderful job generating these much more three-dimensional mixes” and is included in three-disc set, including Blu-ray.

Continuing the idea developed for Peter’s US and UP albums, he has again invited a range of visual artists to contribute a piece of art to accompany the music and each of i/o ’s 12 songs were handed to a world-renowned artist to create an accompanying work, whether paint, photography, sculpture or even Plasticine. The dozen artists make an exceedingly impressive team of collaborators: Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Henry Hudson, Annette Messager, Antony Micallef, David Moreno, Cornelia Parker, Megan Rooney, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs and Barthélémy Toguo.

Another visual link with Peter’s past work is the cover shot. Taken by photographer Nadav Kander, it echoes with the covers of his earlier albums, always present but, with the exception of So , intriguingly obscured or manipulated.

These echoes of the past might resonate, but i/o is fundamentally an album of – and for – the here and now. Many of its themes may be timeless, but they’re also warnings that we’re living on borrowed time, both as a planet and as individuals. As Peter sings on the divine So Much , “this edition is limited”.

The wait has been worth every minute. i/o is another triumphant Peter Gabriel record.

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• Playing for Time
• Four Kinds of Horses
• Road to Joy
• Love Can Heal
• This Is Home
• Live And Let Live
• Playing for Time 
• The Court  
• Four Kinds of Horses  
• Love Can Heal  

SIDE C     

• Road to Joy  
• Olive Tree  

SIDE D     

• This Is Home  
• And Still  
• Live and Let Live

A detailed track-by-track guide is available on request.

Peter Gabriel – i/o

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The i/o tour in North America comes to end later this week

All dates are on sale now. livenation.com / petergabriel.com

i/o The Tour 2023 North America

Wednesday, 18 October                        Austin, TX                     Moody Center

Thursday, 19 October                Dallas, TX                      American Airlines Center

Saturday, 21 October                Houston, TX                  Toyota Center

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Peter Gabriel Reveals New ‘i/o’ Album and 2023 Tour Plans

Peter Gabriel has announced a 2023 tour of the U.K. and Europe. The shows will include songs from i/o , his first album in over a decade.

No further information on the album was available. A press release notes that "full details on the i/o album will follow." Gabriel's most recent album, 2011's New Blood , included orchestral rerecordings of songs from throughout his career; the year before, he released a covers album,  Scratch My Back . Up  from 2002 is his most recent collection of new, original songs.

Gabriel released the single " I'm Amazing " in 2016 to commemorate the death of boxer Muhammad Ali, and contributed the song "Why Don't You Show Yourself" to the soundtrack of the 2014 film Words With Gods .

"It's been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road," the former Genesis singer said in a statement announcing the tour. "Look forward to seeing you out there."

You can see the tour dates below.

Peter Gabriel 2023 i/o Tour May 18 - Krakow, Poland @ Tuaron Arena May 20 - Verona, Italy @ Verona Arena May 21 - Milan, Italy @ Mediolanum Arena May 23 - Paris, France @ Accorhotels Arena May 24 - Lille, France @ Stade Pierre-Mauroy May 26 - Berlin, German @ Waldbuehne May 28 - Munich, Germany @ Koeingsplatz May 30 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena May 31 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena June 2 - Bergen, Norway @ Koengen June 5 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome June 6 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis June 8 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion June 10 - Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena June 12 - Hamburg, Germany @ Barclays Arena June 13 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Festhalle June 15 - Bordeaux, France @ Arkea Arena June 17 - Birmingham, UK @ Utilitia Arena June 19 - London, UK @ 02 Arena June 22 - Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro June 23 - Manchester, UK @ AO Arena June 25 - Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena

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(Real World) The legendary prog-turned-pop star started work on his new album in the mid-90s and has drip-fed its songs to fans, but it is anything but disjointed

P eter Gabriel ’s tenth studio album of original material has been compared to both the Beach Boys’ Smile and Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy . These were two records with legendarily elephantine gestation periods, although the latter seems an inadequate yardstick: Chinese Democracy came out 15 years after Guns N’ Roses’ previous album, a veritable rush release compared to the 28 years Gabriel has been working on i/o.

Its production apparently began concurrently with that of his last album of original material Up, in 1995 – before 70% of the artists in the current UK singles Top 10 were even born . It was first scheduled for release in 2004, two years after Up came out, although you could hardly accuse Gabriel of slacking in the interim period: he’s released nine albums – collections of cover versions and his own songs re-recorded with an orchestra, a film soundtrack, the collaborative work Big Blue Ball (also begun in 1995), three live albums and two compilations – toured seven times, co-founded and sold a digital distribution network, helped launch the international non-governmental organisation the Elders , the “brain-on-music entertainment, media and tech studio” Reverberation and Panopticom. The latter is an “infinitely expandable, universally accessible data globe” for which i/o’s opening track of the same name acts as a kind of jingle, albeit a luxuriously-appointed one: it lasts more than five minutes, comes, like the rest of i/o in two distinct mixes (one by Mark “Spike” Stent and one by Tchad Blake) and features both Brian Eno on synth and session musician supremo Tony Levin on bass.

Moreover, the album has clearly warped and changed dramatically over time. It frequently reads like an extended meditation on old age, a subject a septuagenarian artist has every right to discuss. It variously sees Gabriel haunted by the passing of a previous generation on And Still; aware of his own encroaching mortality – trapped in a body that “stiffens, tires and aches in its wrinkled, blotchy skin” – on So Much; happy to let “the young move to the centre” on Playing for Time and at peace with his place in the cosmic structure of things on the title track. Even when its lyrics venture into current events – Four Kinds of Horses could be aimed at violent religious fundamentalism or rightwing populism and The Court explores the effect of the internet on public discourse – they do so from the vantage point of someone who’s been around a long time: “Ah, you say you’re something different, but you do it all again”, as the former puts it wearily. It’s an approach that’s effective and affecting, but i/o couldn’t have started out like that, for the simple reason that Peter Gabriel was only 45 when he began work on it.

Patched together from sessions in Britain, Italy, South Africa, Sweden and onstage at Rexall Place, a Canadian arena venue that closed down five years ago, it’s to i/o’s immense credit that doesn’t feel like an album that’s been endlessly, if intermittently, reworked over decades. It’s all clearly carefully considered, but it still sounds remarkably fresh as it touches, lightly, on a variety of Gabriel’s longstanding preoccupations. On the tour that accompanied the gradual release of i/o’s tracks online – one every full moon – Gabriel performed his new material alongside the big hits from 1986’s So. If there’s nothing here as obviously commercial as Sledgehammer or Don’t Give Up, there’s definitely a hint of 80s brashness about the horns on the bright-hued Olive Tree and an epic, stadium-ready grandeur to the title track. His interest in music from beyond the west is reflected in the sinuous rhythm of This Is Home. You would struggle to describe And Still as prog rock per se, but its piano, flute and cello certainly trades in the kind of rain-spattered, very English melancholy that was among early 70s Genesis’s key modes.

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It’s dense and rewarding and has more interesting things to say than the earnest but pat song titles – Live and Let Live, Love Can Heal – suggest. Anyone wondering at the wisdom of releasing an album consisting of songs already freely available to stream might note that, lunar-influenced drip-fed release or not, it’s clearly been conceived as an album: listened to in one sitting, it ebbs and flows beautifully. And given the size of the gap that separates i/o from Up, it’s tempting to wonder something else: whether it might be Gabriel’s last album of original material. Its highlight might be Playing for Time, a ballad that slowly moves to a dramatic climax. The lyrics feature Gabriel climbing a hill, as the lyrics of his debut solo single did, but this time lost in memories and the thought of time’s passing. It would work perfectly as a grand finale. i/o is so rich in ideas, you hope it won’t have to.

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Peter Gabriel Supports New i/o Album with European and North American Tour Dates, Using Three Solid State Logic Live Consoles

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Oxford, UK, December 14, 2023 — Peter Gabriel recently completed his first live tour in six years, covering Europe and North America. This tour supported his latest album, ‘i/o’, which is his first release of original studio material since 2002. Both legs of ‘i/o – The Tour’ carried three Solid State Logic Live mixing consoles, including an […]

Oxford, UK, December 14, 2023 —  Peter Gabriel recently completed his first live tour in six years, covering Europe and North America. This tour supported his latest album, ‘i/o’, which is his first release of original studio material since 2002 .  Both legs of ‘i/o – The Tour’ carried three Solid State Logic Live mixing consoles, including an L550 Plus at front-of-house, another L550 Plus for band monitors and an L650 for Gabriel’s monitors, plus a compact SSL SiX to mix Gabriel’s keyboards.

Peter Gabriel, an artist and studio owner, has a longstanding association with SSL. Within his personal production spaces, and at Real World Studios in Bath, England—a commercial complex he owns—he has installed several of the company’s large-format studio consoles. Since their introduction, Gabriel has exclusively relied on SSL Live consoles throughout his tours.

The best sounding desk in the world ​ “Interestingly, I was the first person to use the SSL Live desk on his tour,” reports veteran monitor engineer Dee Miller, who has been working with Gabriel since the end of the Growing Up Tour in 2003. “I’ve been using the SSL Live desk since its inception. I’m extremely comfortable with it and I find it very easy to navigate”.

“It absolutely sounds stunning. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the best sounding desk in the world. It’s the only desk I use now.” ​ Miller, set to mark 40 years on the road in 2024, has spent the last two decades collaborating with Robert Plant. Additionally, he had a long history with Jeff Beck and has worked with renowned artists such as The Who and Diana Ross. On i/o – The Tour he typically created 14 stereo in-ear mixes for the nine musicians and crew plus one for any potential musical guests.

Richard Sharratt, who has been Gabriel’s front-of-house engineer since 2010’s New Blood Tour, used a variety of consoles before SSL Live was introduced, including with other artists and clients for whom he has worked. “You’re conscious of the differences when you use a different desk and you come back to SSL,” he comments. “The SSL Live has just got that lovely warmth, that analogue thing. It sounds open and clear and just generally better, and we have more room for everything in the mix.”

Sharratt continues, “I love the layout of the L550 Plus. You can reach everything easily.” He used four Bricasti and the internal revebs on i/o – The Tour. The internal effects are really good on the SSL,” he says. “Peter’s vocals are a challenge because they are just so dynamic and because of his style of singing. I use the de-esser and multiband comp, a fair amount of inserted 10- band EQ and also more EQ to just tweak his mic to get more gain before feedback. But none of the compressors are working too hard.”

Establishing a creative workflow with SSL Live ​ The tour’s production setup included 128 of MADI recording, Sharratt reports: “Peter insists on recording soundcheck at shows whenever he’s on stage.” Those recordings are a core part of Gabriel’s longtime creative workflow, both on the road and in the studio, where he records every musical idea, however fleeting, for potential future compositions, sometimes pulling them from the archives many years later. For his FOH mixing purposes, Sharratt adds, “The band inputs are within the first 96.”

Gabriel’s song presentations range from a solo vocal accompanied by a piano to a full-on band performance with the musicians firing on all cylinders. To handle the transition from one song to the next, Sharratt typically uses a single automation scene snapshot to set his mix up for the next number. “I don’t have scenes within a song but it’s a good starting point. The scene fires MIDI to the Bricastis and changes all the internal effects, EQs and the VCA layout, so I can have different things in front of me for different songs.”

Miller, too, makes extensive use of the Live’s scene recall capabilities, he says. “It’s all automated — mutes, groups, sends, EQs; the lot. Peter is quite particular and there’s a lot going on in his music, so the only way you could do it is by using scene snapshots.”

Minimizing outboard gear ​Miller uses the SSL Lives internal processing and scenes in preference to any outboard equipment. “I never use any outboard. Everything internal is fine for me, and I love everything on it. I love the reverbs. I only use a couple of small reverbs for a couple of members of the band, so I don’t need anything outboard. Plus, you’ve got SSL compressors on there. What else do you need? It’s the industry standard in the studio.”

In his experience, Miller says, artists can clearly hear the difference when they change from another brand of monitor console to the SSL Live. “One hundred percent they can, without a doubt. Everybody goes, ‘Wow, that sounds good!’”

Unlike the FOH engineer, the monitor engineer tailors the mix for each musician based on their personal preferences, notes Miller. “They tell you what they need,” he says. It’s important to him that he can deliver what they need with the utmost clarity. “All I have to care about is how the desk sounds. The SSL Live is so clean. There’s room for everything in the mix,” he says. “This desk, to me, is the benchmark.”

This latest tour was somewhat bittersweet for Miller after four decades on the road, half of them travelling the world with Peter Gabriel. “I’m back with Robert Plant for a couple of weeks in the U.K., doing very small shows, then I’m going to do some stuff locally in London, but I’ve run my course,” he reveals. “This was my last big tour — and a lovely way to go out.”

The SSL Live console used on i/o – The Tour were supplied by Britanita Row Productions. Peter Gabriel’s new album i/o is available now on Real World.

About Solid State Logic ​Solid State Logic is the world’s leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for music, broadcast, live and post production professionals. For more information about our award-winning products, please visit:  www.solidstatelogic.com .

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The first single will arrive May 16, as the band announced headlining tour dates beginning in August. After an opening run with Khruangbin, Peter Cat will tour the U.S., U.K. and Europe before returning home for a string of dates in India. Tickets for the headlining dates go on sale Thursday, May 16, at 10 a.m. local time.

The New Delhi-based band teased the record on Instagram Wednesday , with a video featuring a herd of elephants devouring an edible arrangement with the album’s title written in watermelon slices.

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A press release said that “Beta” was just one of five potential titles for the album, as the band wrote down all five and let drummer Karan Singh’s six-month-old son reach in and choose one. The result, “Beta,” translates to “child” in Hindi.

Produced by Peter Cat’s own Suryakant Sawhney, Kartik Pillai and Dhruv Bhola, the album promises a “whimsical amalgamation of indie, bossa nova, jazz, psychedelic and more.” As displayed in “Bismillah,” the band is also heavily influenced by crooner music.

“That style of singing is really emotional,” Sawhney told Variety in April 2023 , when Peter Cat last performed in New York. “I also enjoy it in this weird masculine way. I was drawn to that strong, macho voice when I was younger. But it was conservative, you know? Those guys couldn’t sing sleazy shit. They had to come up with cheesy ways of saying, ‘Hey, we’re gonna fuck tonight.’ So I like the idea of it being grimy.”

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Ana Gabriel is set to celebrate 50 years in music with her Un Deseo Más 2024 Tour, set to kick off Sept. 13 in New Jersey’s Prudential Center.

Produced by CMN, the 24-date trek will take the legendary Mexican singer across the United States and Canada, visiting major markets such as Chicago (Allstate Arena), Atlanta (State Farm Arena), Dallas (Texas Trust CU Theatre), Toronto (Coca Cola Coliseum) and Las Vegas (MGM Grand Garden Arena). The trek will wrap up Nov. 30 in Miami’s Kaseya Center.

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Last year, she was honored with the Living Legend Award at the inaugural Billboard ‘s Latin Women in Music.

“There is an audience behind me that is my base, that takes me by the hand in what I give them as a person, as a human being, as a singer, as a composer,” Ana Gabriel previously said about her extraordinary touring career. “This audience is responsible for making me a living legend. They’ve supported me for many years because I have not lied to them. They know me so much, so much, so much that when I keep my distance or silence it is because they know that I’m taking time to recycle myself as a human being.”

See the complete list of dates here and below:

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