The blues rocker to play 18 dates in 2006.Veteran UK Blues rocker Chris Rea has confirmed details of a huge UK and Ireland tour for 2006.
Close to two years after releasing his most recent album, March 2004's "The Blue Jukebox" - which saw the solo artist adopt a jazzier sound - Rea will undertake one of the biggest tours of his career with 18-dates scheduled throughout March and April 2005 in support of a host of new releases.
Next month will see the European release of "Blue Guitars", a brand new series of eleven albums, with launch events taking place in London, Hamburg/Cologne, Milan and Paris. Described a groundbreaking project, the release sees Rea's Jazzee Blue label bring music, paintings and written material together in one form.
The project includes eleven CDs featuring 130 new songs, a DVD and a book showing examples of Chris Rea's art, paintings that have been so important to him since recovering from his life threatening illness at the turn of the new Millennium.
The 2006 tour dates are as follows:
March 2006
29 - Harrogate International Centre
30 - Carling Apollo Manchester
April 2006
5 - Newcastle City Hall
7 - Sheffield City Hall
9 - Bournemouth International Centre
10 - Brighton Centre
11 - Bristol Colston Hall
13 - Plymouth Pavillion
14 - New Theatre Oxford
16 - St David's Hall, Cardiff
17 - Ipswich Regent Theatre
18 - Birmingham Symphony Hall
20 - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
21 - Hull City Hall
22 - Nottingham Royal Centre
25 - Carling Apollo Hammersmith
27 - Waterfront Hall Auditorium, Belfast
28 - Dublin Olympia Theatre
Tickets are on sale now.
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