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Artist News: Queensrÿche Singer Announces West Coast Solo Dates

Posted on Saturday, January 07 @ 13:00:00 UTC by nightowl

After touring extensively in 2011 with his band Queensrÿche, lead singer Geoff Tate has announced that he will do a handful of acoustic solo dates, billed as Geoff Tate And Friends, beginning on Friday, January 27 at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California. [Though uh, actually that'd be Thursday, Jan 26 at Anthology in San Diego, CA, based on the dates given below (and at Q's website -ed.]

What can fans expect on the brief run of dates? According to Tate, he'll be "playing acoustic renditions of songs from my solo album as well as some of my favorite Queensrÿche songs."

And that certainly gives him a lot to choose from. The dates are as follows:

Jan. 26 - San Diego, CA - Anthology
Jan. 27 - Agoura Hills - Canyon
Jan. 29 - San Juan Cap - Coach House
Jan. 31 - Grass Valley, CA - Center for the Arts
Feb. 01 - Chico, CA - El Rey
Feb. 02 - Napa, CA - Uptown
Feb. 04 - Snqoualmie, WA – Finapalooza

When asked about Queensrÿche's plans following the band's last scheduled concert of 2012, which will take place on January 13 at the Peppermill Concert Hall in Wendover, Nevada, Tate told the Seattle station KISW 99.9 FM earlier this month, "Nothing. We're taking a year off and we'll be working on a new album. [We'll be going] back to the studio."

[Source: Blabbermouth.net]

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