Gordon Lightfoot stays busy with spring, summer tour plans
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Gordon Lightfoot continues his 2009 tour schedule with a slate of spring shows, including a number of dates this month in his native Canada.
The 70-year-old singer/songwriter launched his current tour last month in the US, completing a 15-city outing through the Southwest and Midwest. The trek's Canadian leg kicks off tonight (4/8) with the first of back-to-back shows in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Lightfoot's schedule remains busy through an East Coast stretch in July, after which he'll take a breather for a few months before launching into a four-night engagement at Toronto's Massey Hall beginning Nov. 18. Dates are below.
Lightfoot, who scored a No. 1 record with 1974's "Sundown" and a No. 2 hit with the 1976 lost-at-sea ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," hasn't released an album of new material since 2004's "Harmony."
That album, his 20th full-length studio effort, surfaced following the singer's serious health issues in 2002, when he underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and endured six weeks in a coma.
Following a long recovery period, which included additional surgeries, Lightfoot hit the road again with a few shows in 2004 before embarking on a more thorough tour the following year. Another tour followed in 2008.
April 2009
8, 9 - Nanaimo, British Columbia - Port Theatre
10, 11 - Vancouver, British Columbia - The Centre for the Performing Arts
13 - Calgary, Alberta - Jack Singer Concert Hall
14 - Edmonton, Alberta - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
16 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre
17 - Thunder Bay, Ontario - Community Auditorium
18 - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Essar Centre
May 2009
6 - Richmond, VA - Landmark Theatre
7 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
8 - Roanoke, VA - Roanoke Civic Center
9 - North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center
10 - Columbia, SC - Koger Center For the Arts
12 - Macon, GA - Macon City Auditorium
13 - Huntsville, AL - Von Braun Civic Center Concert Hall
14 - Augusta, GA - William B. Bell Auditorium
15 - Montgomery, AL - Montgomery Performing Arts Center
16 - Biloxi, MS - Hard Rock Resort & Casino
June 2009
24 - Florence, MA - The Pines Theatre
25 - Utica, NY - Stanley Theatre
26 - Westbury, NY - Theatre at Westbury
27 - New York, NY - Town Hall
28 - Tarrytown, NY - Music Hall
July 2009
22 - Interlochen, MI - Kresge Auditorium
23 - Rochester Hills, MI - Meadow Brook Music Festival
24 - Chautauqua, NY - Chautauqua Amphitheatre
25 - Binghamton, NY - The Forum Theatre
26 - Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap Filene Center
29 - Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
31 - Lincoln, RI - Twin River Casino
August 2009
2 - Bethlehem, PA - Zoelnner Arts Center at Lehigh University
November 2009
18-21 - Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
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