The Bad Plus have expanded their farewell tour, including stops in Seattle, Boise, NYC, DC, Albany, Montreal, Northampton, and more. All dates are listed below. The NYC show is at Sony Hall on June 19, and tickets for all just-announced dates go on sale Friday, February 6 at 10 AM local time. In addition to the farewell dates, The Bad Plus' Chris Potter and Craig Taborn will be touring a tribute to Keith Jarrett's American Quartet, and those dates are below.
For Emmylou Harris, it's no cliche to say that every song is a story. The country legend has spent 50 years roaming between folk, bluegrass, rock'n'roll and Americana, curating her own songbook of deeply humanitarian music. On this first stop of her European farewell tour, she says goodbye to Scottish fans as part of the Celtic Connections festival, offering up a suitably career-spanning set-list accompanied by memories of Gram Parsons, Nanci Griffith, Bill Monroe, Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson, to name just a few.
Two trains will run the trip on Sunday 21st December, and after leaving Waterloo, they will diverge from the mainline just before Putney to run over the District line tracks to Wimbledon, where they will rejoin the mainline. That means fans of the unusual can see an SWR-branded train passing through East Putney, Southfield, and Wimbledon Park tube stations - and at a sensible hour as well.
South Western Railway (SWR) is bidding farewell to its red-liveried Class 455 trains, and there will be a special farewell tour in December. The Class 455 trains were built by British Rail Engineering between 1982-85 and have been in service on the SWR routes since March 1983, making them among the oldest trains still in use on the UK railway.