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Melissa Etheridge Announces her Revival Tour 2008
Multi-platinum, Oscar and two-time Grammy Award winning Island Records artist Melissa Etheridge makes a timely summer return to the road for The Revival Tour 2008, her first major headlining North American tour in two years, opening June 15th at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida. The 48-city schedule, with several multiple night engagements along the way, works its way across the U.S. and Canada for 12 weeks, wrapping up September 9th at Midland Theatre in Kansas City. (Please see complete tour itinerary below.)
“I love to perform live, and I am on a new journey in my life,” Melissa says. “Put those two things together, and you have my Revival Tour. I’ll be playing the favorites along with album cuts and songs from The Awakening to tell my story. I hope you enjoy it.”
The Revival Tour 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Melissa Etheridge’s self-titled RIAA multi-platinum debut album on Island in May 1988. One of rock’s most celebrated debuts, it contained her first four chart singles: “Bring Me Some Water,” “Like the Way I Do,” “Similar Features,” and “Chrome Plated Heart.” 19 years later, in September 2007, Melissa released her most recent (ninth) studio album, The Awakening, featuring “Message To Myself”. The concept album was ranked #20 by Rolling Stone magazine on its list of the 50 Top Albums of 2007.
2007 was a landmark year for Melissa Etheridge, beginning at the Academy Awards on February 25th, when “I Need To Wake Up” won the Oscar for Best Original Song, from Al Gore’s Academy Award winning documentary of 2006, "An Inconvenient Truth". Three weeks before the Oscars, the song was issued commercially (for the first time) as a closing bonus track on the enhanced version of Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled, her 17- (now 18-) song RIAA gold career anthology, originally compiled and released in 2005.
In July 2007, Melissa Etheridge joined the all-star cast of participants at Live Earth, where she introduced Al Gore to the crowd at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Live Earth's emphasis on the perils of global warming underscored the continuing relevance of “I Need To Wake Up”. Melissa reprised the song at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, co-starring Earth, Wind & Fire, Annie Lennox, Alicia Keys and others, attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, and broadcast to over 100 countries.
Melissa's tour dates are as follows:
June 15 - Ruth Eckerd Hall - Clearwater, FL
June 16 - Bob Carr Performing Arts Center - Orlando, FL
June 17 - Mizner Park Amphitheatre - Boca Raton, FL
June 19 - The Florida Theatre - Jacksonville, FL
June 20 - Chastain Park Amphitheatre - Atlanta, GA
June 21 - Palace Theatre - Lousiville, KY
June 24 - Ovens Auditorium - Charlotte, NC
June 25 - DAR Constitution Hall - Washington, DC
June 27 - F.M. Kirby Center for Performing Arts - Wilkes-Barre, PA
June 28 - Palace Theater - Albany, NY
June 29 - Ives Concert Park - Danbury, CT
July 1-2 - Cape Cod Melody Tent - Hyannis, MA
July 4 - Borgata Events Center - Atlantic City, NJ
July 5 - Meadowbrook US Cellular Pavilion - Gilford, NH
July 6 - Newport Yachting Center - Newport, RI
July 9-10 - WAMU Theater - New York, NY
July 11 - The Pines - Northampton, MA
July 13 - Constellation Brands Perf. Arts Center CMAC - Canandaigua, NY
July 15 - Soveriegn Performing Arts Center - Reading, PA
July 16 - Mid Hudson Civic Center - Poughkeepsie, NY
July 18-19 Lowell Memorial Auditorium - Lowell, MA
July 21 - Salle Wilfrid- Pelletier/Place Des Arts - Montreal, Quebec
July 22 - National Arts Center - Ottawa, ONT
July 23 - Grand Theatre de Quebec - Quebec City, QC
July 25 - MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods - Manshantucket, CT
July 26 - Shelburne Museum - Shelburne, VT
July 28 - Massey Hall - Toronto, Ontario
July 31 - Clowes Memorial Hall - Indianopolis, IN
August 2 - Celeste Center at the Ohio State Fair - Columbus, OH
August 3 - Opera House - Detroit, MI
August 7-8 - Chicago Theatre - Chicago,IL
August 9 - O'Shaughnessy Theatre - St. Paul, MN
August 11 - Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO
August 13 - Paramount Theatre - Austin, TX
August 14 - Alice & George Brown Theatre - Houston,TX
August 15 - Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie - Dallas, TX
August 17 - Sandia Casino Amphitheatre - Albuquerque, NM
August 18 - Dodge Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
August 20 - Wells Fargo Center for the Arts - Santa Rosa, CA
August 22 - Cuthbert Amphitheatre - Eugene, OR
August 23 - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - Portland, OR
August 24 - Paramount Theatre - Seattle, WA
August 26 - Human Rights Campaign Event at the Fillmore - Denver, CO
August 28 - Paramount Theatre - Oakland, CA
August 29 - Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
August 30 - Concerts In The Park (Alpine) - San Diego, CA
Sept. 9 - Midland Theatre - Kansas City, MO
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