New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Fresh from their recent BBC One appearance, airing Christmas Eve, on 'David Walliams celebrates Dame Shirley Bassey', British harmony trio BLAKE are back with a brand-new tour featuring the finest songs from stage and screen, with projections & lighting that bring the cinematic magic to life. Linked together with the boys' famous improvised banter, the show features music from Hanz Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew
Lloyd Webber, Leonard Cohen, The
Beach Boys & many more. This is the ultimate celebration of movies and musicals, all sung in thrilling vocal harmony.
The tour follows appearances alongside the sensational Dame Shirley Bassey, with whom they released a Christmas single last December. The single featured on their festive album 'A Classic Christmas' in aid of children's charities Variety and Noah's Ark Hospice.
The members of
Blake all found their love of music at a young age and sang with various groups and choirs throughout their childhood. Their passion for music continues to grow and they wanted to share this with the communities they would be visiting on their tour.
"We thought about how we could involve school choirs and local community choirs in our live shows, and that getting some of the choirs up on stage with us would be a great experience for both them and us" -
Oliver Baines, Tenor.
BLAKE have an impressive CV of achievements including several No.1s, multi-platinum selling albums and over 150 TV appearances, as well as having won a Brit Award for Album of the Year. Famous fans include
Keira Knightley, Ewan McGregor,
Kevin Spacey and Will Smith. The trio tour constantly and take part in a vast amount of charity work, from performing for the
Queen and
Prince Harry at the Festival of Remembrance and the launch of the Walking With The Wounded South Pole Challenge, to working with the 'Sing to Beat Breast Cancer' Choir. Other charities they have supported include Help For Heroes, The British Legion and MIND. They have fans worldwide, which has sent them on tours to the Philippines, South Korea, Barbados, Russia, and even at the White House in the US.
Choirs who would like the chance to join
Blake on stage should send a YouTube video link of themselves performing to
[email protected] accompanied by a short description of their group. One choir will be chosen for each concert to join the group on stage.
BLAKE 2017 UK TOUR
APRIL
1ST SAT ELGIVA, CHESHAM
15TH SAT CAPITOL THEATRE, HORSHAM
MAY
4TH THU TIVOLI, WIMBORNE
5TH FRI OCTAGON THEATRE, YEOVIL
6TH SAT HALL FOR CORNWALL
19TH SAT WINDING WHEEL, CHESTERFIELD
20TH SAT ARTRIX, BROMSGROVE
26TH FRI MEDINA, IOW
JUNE
6TH TUES BRINDLEY THEATRE, RUNCORN
7TH WED PLAZA, STOCKPORT
10TH SAT RADLETT CENTRE, RADLETT
14TH WED LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE, POOLE
17TH SAT SOUTH HOLLAND CENTRE, SPALDING
JULY
17TH FRI WHITE ROCK, HASTING
21ST FRI CONCORDE, SOUHAMPTON
22ND SAT HALL FOR CORNWALL, TRURO
29TH SAT DRAYTON HALL, MARKET DRAYTON
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