Rick Wakeman Makes One More Tour
Rick Wakeman CBE will make a final solo piano tour of the US in 2024, highlighting a 50-year keyboard career. Wakeman (YES) isn’t retiring, but will follow up the tour with composing, recording, and collaborating with other musicians.
Wakefield will premiere Yessonata, a 30- minute instrumental featuring YES themes and melodies woven into sonata form, exclusively for fans.
I always planned to stop touring by my 77th birthday — for those of you who wish to send me a card, it’s May 18th! — but there is so much to fit in before then that I’m having to make plans now and so my final one-man shows will have to cease by that date.
I have thoroughly enjoyed performing the various one-man shows, but it’s time to call it a day. I intend to throw in the best of what I have done in the past, plus a few new surprises on the way, and possibly even the odd guest joining me on the odd occasion.
The plan is not to perform at the same venue twice throughout this period, so whatever venue you are hopefully thinking of coming to, it will be the last performance there — and I am taking this opportunity of thanking everyone and anyone who has supported me over the last 53 years!
~Rick Wakeman
The tour heads to South America in April, but returns to North America for the second leg later in the year.
2024 March US Tour Dates
3.19 Ridgefield Playhouse (Ridgefield, CT)
3.20 Wellmont Theatre (Montclair, NJ)
3.22 Paramount Theater (Huntington, NY)
3.23 Scottish Rite Auditorium (Collingswood, NJ)
3.24 Tupelo Music Hall (Derry, NH)
3.26 The Vogel @ Count Basie Center for the Arts (Red Bank, NJ)
3.27, 3.28 The Barns (Vienna, VA)
3.29 Egg-Hart Theatre (Albany, NY)
