{"id":803765,"date":"2020-02-03T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946967"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:02:48","slug":"a-bowie-celebration-to-spotlight-ziggy-stardust-and-diamond-dogs-on-2020-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/a-bowie-celebration-to-spotlight-ziggy-stardust-and-diamond-dogs-on-2020-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bowie Celebration to Spotlight \u2018Ziggy Stardust\u2019 and \u2018Diamond Dogs\u2019 on 2020 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The David Bowie<\/a> tribute show A Bowie Celebration is returning the road this year for a special run of shows that will feature complete performances of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars<\/em> and Diamond Dogs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The group is led by keyboardist Mike Garson, who played alongside Bowie from the original Ziggy Stardust<\/em> tour in 1973 all the way through his last tour in 2003-04 and his final live appearance in 2006.<\/p>\n

Also in the band is Reality<\/em>-era Bowie guitarist Gerry Leonard, Serious Moonlight\/Glass Spider<\/em> bassist Carmine Rojas, Glass Spider drummer Alan Childs and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Armstrong, who played with Bowie at Live Aid and on the first Tin Machine album and tour. The group also features Living Colour frontman Corey Glover, Joe Sumner and Canadian singer Sass Jordan. Westworld<\/em> actress Evan Rachel Wood will appear at select shows.<\/p>\n

The history of this tour dates back to 2017, when the members of Bowie\u2019s Reality<\/em> band reunited to honor him on the first anniversary of his death along with many special guests including Gary Oldman and Kate Pierson of the B-52\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The entire thing \u2014 which traveled all over the world during the course of just a few weeks \u2014 was organized by guitarist Angelo Bundini (a.k.a. Scrote.) \u201cI didn\u2019t see anybody else doing something on the level of the [1992] Freddie Mercury tribute show [after Bowie died],\u201d Scrote told Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cI wanted to do something extraordinarily large and international.\u201d<\/p>\n

That show expanded into the Celebrating David Bowie tour the following year, but there seems to have been a split within the camp in the past couple of years. Scrote continues to tour under the banner Celebrating David Bowie and Garson now leads the competing A Bowie Celebration. (The similar names make the whole thing more than a little confusing.) Scrote now devotes much of his energy to his new band the Euphoriant, which also features Joe Sumner and drummer Blair Sinta. He has indicated that Celebrating David Bowie might tour at some point this year.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here are the 2020 tour dates for Garson\u2019s A Bowie Celebration:<\/p>\n

March 3rd \u2013 San Diego, CA @ Belly Up
March 4th \u2013 Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center
March 6th \u2013 Pasadena, CA @ The Rose
March 7th \u2013 San Diego, CA @ Belly Up
March 8th \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo\u2019s 365 Club
March 11th \u2013 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
March 12th \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Neptune
March 13th \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
March 15th \u2013 Calgary, AB @ Palace Theatre
March 17th \u2013 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings
March 19th \u2013 St. Charles, IL @ Arcada Theatre
March 20th \u2013 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
March 21st \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
March 22nd \u2013 Munhall, PA @ Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
March 24th \u2013 Falls Church, VA @ The State Theatre
March 25th \u2013 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
March 27th \u2013 Medford, MA @ Chevalier Theatre
March 28th \u2013 Lebanon, NH @ Lebanon Opera House
March 29th \u2013 New London, CT @ Garde Arts Center \u2013 Mainstage
March 31st \u2013 New York, NY @ Sony Hall
April 1st \u2013 Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie
April 2nd \u2013 Princeton, NJ @ McCarter Theatre Center
April 3rd \u2013 Englewood, NJ @ Bergen PAC
April 4th \u2013 Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
April 5th \u2013 Brookville, NY @ Tilles Center
April 7th \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
April 8th \u2013 Melbourne, FL @ King Center
April 9th \u2013 Clearwater, FL @ Capitol Theatre
April 10th \u2013 Lakeland, FL @ RP Funding Center
April 11th \u2013 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Amaturo<\/p>\n

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