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John Mellencamp
Sets Out On Plain Spoken Tour
First Leg of Tour Kicks Off
After kicking off his Plain Spoken Tour with sold-out shows in South Bend, Ind., Louisville, Cincinnati, and two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Theatre, John Mellencamp will crisscross North America for a total of 80 shows, hitting his hometown of Bloomington, as well as Chicago, Los Angeles, four nights in New York, and multiple dates across Canada. The tour, produced by AEG Live, will continue through August and features special guest Carlene Carter.
Tickets and VIP packages for the “Voice of the Heartland’s” 2015 tour are selling out quickly; fans can purchase available tickets for the Plain Spoken Tour performance on Sunday, August 2, 2015, 7:30 p.m. in Omaha’s Orpheum Theater via Ticket Omaha, 402-345-0606,http://www.ticketomaha.com/productions/John-Mellencamp, or in person at the box office, 13th & Douglas streets. Tickets are priced at $253.25 (VIP package), $118.50, $89.50, $65.00, and $42.50.
Accolades for the tour’s opening night are already pouring in:
“For this opening-night performance, both Mellencamp and Carter came out confident and purposeful, ready for the 79 dates ahead to mine the roots of American music and investigate what it means to live and die.” -South Bend Tribune
“Friday night at a sold-out Louisville Palace, the 63-year-old Mellencamp had his share of fun—he’s always been a consummate showman—but there was an underlying richness to his set that was far more impressive.” -Louisville Courier-Journal
“John Mellencamp’s sold-out Plain Spoken Tour stop at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati felt more like 3,300 old friends getting back together rather than 3,300 strangers meeting for a night of music—that’s the effect of Mellencamp’s music. It feels good and familiar, like going back home after being away for years; and Saturday night, it felt damn good to all that attended.” -Out of the Blue
The Rock And Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Award® winner released Plain Spoken on September 23, one of the most lauded records of his career, to rave reviews. Fans will receive a digital download of Plain Spoken with their ticket purchase.
PRAISE FOR PLAIN SPOKEN
“Folk-rock and philosophy are the
makings of John Mellencamp’s new album, Plain Spoken. The music looks
back towards Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood On The Tracks,’ with strummed guitars, and
brushes on the drums and neck-rack harmonica, and the words ponder trouble,
power, love, God, freedom, and mortality—the
concerns of a songwriter acting his age.”
-New York
Times
“Rugged, rural, and packed with an
aging rocker’s gimmick-free reflections on life and hope, Plain Spoken is
the first album in Mellencamp’s ‘lifetime contract’ with Republic. The stark,
soul-baring lead single, ‘Troubled Man’ like the rest of the album, follows the
acoustic path of Mellencamp’s last two projects: 2010’s No Better Than This
and 2008’s Life, Death Love and Freedom.” -BILLBOARD
“Hemingway-esque” -Philadelphia
Inquirer
PLAIN SPOKEN TOUR DATES
January 30 Columbus,
Ohio Mershon Auditorium
January 31 Cleveland,
Ohio Playhouse Square –
Palace Theatre
February 3-4 Bloomington,
Ind. Indiana University
Auditorium
February 9 Green
Bay, Wis. Weidner Center
February 11-12 Minneapolis,
Minn. Northrop Auditorium
February 14 Kansas
City, Mo. Arvest Bank
Theatre at the Midland
February 15 Des
Moines, Iowa Des Moines
Civic Center
February 17-18 Chicago,
Ill. Chicago
Theatre
March 5 San
Antonio, Texas Tobin Center
For The Performing Arts
March 7 Dallas,
Texas McFarlin
Memorial Auditorium
March 8 Austin,
Texas Bass Concert
Hall
March 10 New
Orleans, La. Saenger
Theatre
March 12 Birmingham,
Ala. BJCC Concert Hall
March 13 Atlanta,
Ga. Fox Theatre
March 15 Jacksonville,
Fla. Moran Theater
March 17 Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. Broward
Center for the Performing Arts
March 19-20 Clearwater,
Fla. Ruth Eckerd Hall
March 22 Orlando,
Fla. Dr. Phillips
Center for the Performing Arts
March 24 Columbia,
S.C. The Township
Auditorium
March 26 North
Charleston, S.C. North Charleston PAC
March 27 Charlotte,
N.C. Ovens Auditorium
March 29 Norfolk,
Va. Norfolk Scope
Arena – Chrysler Hall Theatre
March 31 Durham,
N.C. Durham PAC
April 15 Boston,
Mass. Citi PAC Wang
Theatre
April 16 Providence,
R.I. Providence PAC
April 18 Red
Bank, N.J. Count Basie
Theatre
April 20-21 New
York, N.Y. Carnegie Hall
April 23-4 New
York, N.Y. Apollo
Theatre
April 26 Washington,
D.C. DAR Constitution Hall
April 29 Hamilton,
ON Hamilton Place
Theatre
May 1-2 Toronto,
ON Sony Centre for
the Performing Arts
May 5 Quebec
City, QC Grand Theatre
May 6 Montreal,
QC St. Denis Theatre
May 8 Syracuse,
N.Y. Landmark Theatre
May 9 Buffalo,
N.Y. Shea’s PAC
May 12 Pittsburgh,
Pa. Benedum Center
May 27 Evansville,
Ind. Old National
Events Plaza
May 29 St.
Louis, Mo. Peabody Opera
House
May 30 Rockford,
Ill. Coronado PAC
June 2 Madison,
Wis. Overture Center
for the Arts – Overture Hall
June 3 Peoria,
Ill. Peoria
Civic Center Theatre
June 5 Milwaukee,
Wis. Milwaukee Riverside
Theater
June 6 Fort
Wayne, Ind. Embassy
Theatre
June 9 Grand
Rapids, Mich. DeVos Performance
Hall
June 10 Detroit,
Mich. Detroit Opera
House
June 12 Baltimore,
Md. Modell PAC at The
Lyric
June 13 Richmond,
Va. Altria Theater
June 16 Philadelphia,
Pa. Merriam Theatre
June 17 Roanoke,
Va. Roanoke Civic
Center Theatre
June 19 Savannah,
Ga. Johnny Mercer
Theatre
June 20 Augusta,
Ga. William B. Bell
Auditorium
June 23 Memphis,
Tenn. Orpheum Theatre
July 8 Winnipeg,
MB Centennial Concert
Hall
July 10-11 Regina,
SK Conexus Arts
Centre
July 13 Saskatoon,
SK TCU Place
July 15 Calgary,
AB Southern
Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
July 18 Vancouver,
BC Queen Elizabeth
Theatre
July 19 Seattle,
Wash. Benaroya Hall
July 21 Portland,
Ore. Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall
July 23 Fresno,
Calif. William
Saroyan Theatre
July 25 Oakland,
Calif. Oakland
Paramount Theatre of the Arts
July 26 Sacramento,
Calif. Sacramento Community
Theatre
July 28 Los
Angeles, Calif. Nokia
Theatre L.A. Live
July 29 Phoenix,
Ariz. Comerica Theater
July 31 Denver,
Colo. Ellie Caulkins
Opera House
August 2 Omaha, Neb. Orpheum Theater
August 4 Indianapolis,
Ind. Bankers Life
Fieldhouse
JOHN MELLENCAMP
Mellencamp’s career in music, spanning more than 35 years, has
seen him transition from pop star to one of the most highly regarded
songwriters of a generation. The Voice of The Heartland continues to evolve
artistically with Plain Spoken—the first new music from the artist since
2010’s critically acclaimed No Better Than This. Plain Spoken is his 22nd full-length album. Mellencamp
is incredibly acclaimed.
Mellencamp is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Grammy
winner, a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, ASCAP Foundation’s Champion
Award, The Woody Guthrie Award, and Americana Music Association’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. He is also one of the most successful live concert
performers in the world. The social activism reflected in his songs helped
catalyze Farm Aid, the concert series and organization that has addressed the
struggle of American family farmers for more than 25 years. The unique instrumentation
of his band and his poignant songs about everyday life in the American
heartland, are widely credited with being the forbearer of the Americana/No
Depression genre of rural-inflected music.
The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is a musical with music and lyrics by
Mellencamp, a libretto by author Stephen King and production by T Bone Burnett.
This extraordinary collaboration 16 years in the making is a haunting tale of
fraternal love, lust, jealousy and revenge, performed by an ensemble cast of 15
actors and a four-piece live band, comprised of members of Mellencamp’s band.
The musical is currently on tour in North America. An 80-city tour in North
American and Canada began in January 2015. His final performance held in
Indianapolis at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse on August 4 will benefit the Riley
Children’s Foundation, which supports Riley Hospital for Children (rileykids.org). Also an accomplished painter, his
one-man show “The Paintings of John Mellencamp” is currently on view at Morris
Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga. from January 17 to April 12, 2015.
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