Epic Tours and New Albums to Watch For

Spring is in the air and summer tour dates are being released!  There are some great musicians that will be trekking around America to put on some unquestionably epic shows.  On the top of the list is Coldplay.  The band just won three Grammy's and I just found out will be doing a summer tour, even though they did just tour this last fall.  Check out the dates and get tickets from Live Nation. Oh what I would give to see Coldplay perform at an outdoor venue! 

Two of the greatest piano men are touring together this spring, Elton John and Billy Joel.  The tour starts in March and runs through August.  John has five Grammy's under his belt and Joel has six!  Collectively they have sold over 300 million albums over 30 decades.  This tour is probably going to go down in history.  Here is the link to look at the dates and tickets. 

For those of you local music-lovers, there are a lot of great local musicians touring currently as well.  I am biased to the Minneapolis area because that's where I live, so I use Mr Chan Presents to find out about both mainstream and smaller artists that are coming through the area.  

Coming up this Tuesday, February 24th, there are some great albums being released.  The classic Van Morrison is releasing a live album titled, "Astral Weeks Live at The Hollywood Bowl." Somalian hip-hop artist, K'Naan, is releasing "Troubadour" this week.  I have just recently been hearing more and more about K'Naan, he is definitely an artist on the rise.