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Moving On! Tour: Rehearsals May 3, 2019

West Palm Beach, Florida Now that the band has set up and found their basic approach, we bring in lights and staging. The staging provides risers for our musicians and the orchestras, and the lighting and visual set are impressive. […]

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Moving On! Tour: Rehearsals April 30, 2019

Somewhere in the U.S.A. DIFFERENT . . . As hoped, we are back! This Who + Orchestra tour has all been planned for a while – but no one (literally no one!) knew exactly what would be happening. There are […]

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Roger Daltrey: Rock Legends Cruise VII, February 14, 16 & 17, 2019

Independence Of The Seas, Miami, Florida Hello all – it’s been a while. Only a few months, but it seems a long time, doesn’t it? We’re back to it, the reunion of the crew and band family, everyone more than […]

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Roger Daltrey performs Tommy: The Fraze Pavilion, Kettering, OH, July 2, 2018

(This is my last blog post for this tour: I’m leaving to prepare some lectures inside Abbey Road Studios in August, and someone will be filling in for me onstage while the tour wraps up.) Tonight, a new amphitheater – […]

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Roger Daltrey performs Tommy: CMAC, Canandaigua, NY, June 30, 2018

Back again – Canandaigua is not a major city. It’s up in Northern New York state, not far from Rochester and then Buffalo. Beautiful wooded areas and a large set of lakes called the Finger Lakes, for obvious reasons. We’ve […]

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Roger Daltrey performs Tommy: The Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN, June 27, 2018

Nashville – what happened? Well, to start, this is an unusual setting. A ‘shed’ with a covered stage, but no roof over the seats – we’ve never seen that before. It’s unexpected as you can usually charge more for covered […]

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