Narada Michael Walden is back on the road for the East Coast America leg of the tour with the Amazing Jeff Beck Band after a refreshing break through the month of May. Narada is very grateful to be playing music with Jeff Beck and his wonderful band mates, Rhonda Smith and Jason Rebello. The Jeff Beck Band played three wildly successful shows in Boston, Mashantucket and Atlantic City last week. Tonight they play in Vienna, Virginia at the Wolftrap, then it’s on to New York for two sold out shows at the Iridium for the Les Paul Tribute. Then it’s on to Atlanta, Tennesee, Montclair, NJ, Asbury Park, Kingston, Rochester, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and finally climaxing at the Crossroads Blues Festival in Chicago.
The Beck Tour has taken the month of May off. They will resume again in June to finish the American leg of the tour. No rest for Narada Michael Walden though. Narada will be in Florida Saturday May 8th for the Clarence Clemons annual Celebrity Golf Fundraiser then he’s headed to New York for his 8th year as Musical Director and drummer for Sting and Trudie Styler’s Rainforest Foundation event May 14th at Carnegie Hall featuring Sir Elton John, Lady Gaga, Sting, Debbie Harry, Dame Shirley Bassey, Mary J Blige and John Sebastian. In June it’s back on the road again, starting in Boston, on to Atantic City, Virginia, New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago and in July the tour heads back to Europe.
Jeff Beck and his band are set to perform at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles today (April 22). The performance, scheduled for 7:30pm PST, will be webcast live at KLOS.com, with a radio broadcast of the event to air on KLOS FM at 10pm PST.
April 19, 2010
Narada Michael Walden & the Jeff Beck Tour are now in the USA. They started off with a sold out show in San Francisco where they had the elated audience standing in ovation after every song. The next night they took that huge energy on to Los Angeles, followed by Temecula and tonight in San Diego. They will be filming for American Idol this week then it’s back on the road, heading to Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, Kansas City, St Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. The Tour will take the month of May off and Narada will put on his Musical Director’s hat and head to New York for Sting’s Rainforest Concert at Carnegie Hall happening on May 13th. The Jeff Beck Emotion Commotion Tour picks up again in Boston on June 3rd!
Jeff and Narada
“Having it Large with Jeff! The best years of our lives!” - Narada Michael Walden
“The band Jeff has assembled for this tour is one of his best ever! Narada Michael Walden is one of the best drummers I have ever heard, seen or experienced. His drum solo was so incredible that it didn’t even seem humanly possible to play that fast and that good. I saw many open mouths during that.”
- Irene Rubaum-Keller, Huffington Post
March 16, 2010
Narada Michael Walden is headed to Asia to “spread the Divine Light and bring the Soul to Seoul, Korea” with Jeff Beck where they’ll play their first show for this 2010 World Tour. Jeff and Narada are delighted to be performing together after 25 years with the Amazing Rhonda Smith on Bass and Jason Rebello on Keys.
Jeff Beck and his monster Band will be in Hong Kong, Australia (Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Byron Bay), Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka), and then will tour the USA (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Temecula, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, Kansas City, St Louis, Memphis, New Orleans). And that’s just the first leg of the tour.
When the tour takes a short break in May, Narada will perform his role as musical director and drummer for Sting and Trudie Styler’s Rainforest Concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 13th. Then it’s back on the road again for the European leg of the tour.
Feb 16, 2010
Narada Michael Walden is headed out to tour with his 1st Gold Record buddy Jeff Beck. Thirty-five years ago they received a Gold Record for the album “Wired” which Narada co-wrote, produced AND played drums on. They are reuniting for a world tour which will start in March.
2009 was busy with wonderful projects and shows. In May on Memorial Day, at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, Narada produced and played drums for the Narada Michael Walden Foundation’s “Let the Sunshine In” concert featuring Sting, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, David Grisman, Keb Mo, Chris Botti, Tevin Campbell, Shanice Wilson, Jeanie Tracy, Lisa Fischer from The Rolling Stones, opera great Frederica von Stade and more as well as a full orchestra from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music led by conductor Michael Morgan from the Oakland East Bay Symphony and 35 piece backup band. With a cast of over 300. The show benefited young Christopher Rodriguez, twelve years old who was paralyzed by a stray bullet while at his piano lesson. The event also benefited the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with the creation of a new scholarship chair.
2009 also brought Tarpan the Power of Music Project! Power of Music took the entire studio to Madrid for songwriting and artist introductions. From there we dove into the studio and a full album of fantastic new songs was created ready for all the stars to bring their voices to complete the project. This is a project to benefit Unicef. Tarpan looks forward to the working further on the Power of Music cd in 2010.
We closed out 2009 with Narada’s annual Foundation Holiday Jam held at 142 Throckmorton in Mill Valley California. The event was sold out, with Santana closing the show. What a great way to end the year!
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