Harry Connick Jr adds fall 2018 tour dates

New Orleans native will celebrate hometown’s 300th birthday and the holidays

Harry Connick, Jr. has announced additional fall concert dates of the New Orleans Tricentennial Celebration tour that will continue to take him across the U.S. and also London and Paris this year. This new leg begins on November 26th with Connick Jr.’s amazing band performing songs in tribute to New Orleans as well as some of his holiday favorites. Tickets for the tour go on sale this week via his website.

When the tour stops in New Orleans on December 15th, Connick, Jr. will play a very special show at UNO Lakefront Arena to benefit the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, which he co-founded in the Ninth Ward in the aftermath of Katrina.

Connick, Jr. has exemplified excellence in every aspect of the entertainment world. He has received recognition with multiple Grammy and Emmy Awards as well as Tony nominations for his live and recorded musical performances, his achievements on screens large and small and his appearances on Broadway as both an actor and a composer. The foundation of Connick, Jr.’s art is the music of his native New Orleans, where he began performing as a pianist and vocalist at the age of five.

Fall 2018 Tour Dates – New Orleans Tricentennial Celebration Holiday Edition:

October 10 London, England The London Palladium
October 12 Paris, France La Seine Musicale
November 26 Grand Rapids, MI DeVos Performance Hall
November 27 Carmel, IN The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts
November 29 Cleveland, OH KeyBank State Theatre at Playhouse Square
November 30 East Lansing, MI Wharton Center for Performing Arts
December 1 Richmond, KY EKU Center for the Arts
December 2 Charleston, WV Clay Center
December 4 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre
December 5 Birmingham, AL BJCC Concert Hall
December 7 Charleston, SC Gaillard Center
December 8 Columbia, SC Township Auditorium
December 9 Savannah, GA Johnny Mercer Theatre
December 11 Chattanooga, TN Tivoli Theatre
December 12 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
December 13 Montgomery, AL Montgomery Performing Arts Centre
December 15 New Orleans, LA UNO Lakefront Arena
December 16 Shreveport, LA Municipal Auditorium
December 17 Springfield, MO Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts
December 18 Lincoln, NE Lied Center for Performing Arts
December 19 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
December 20 St. Louis, MO Stifel Theatre

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