November may mark the month of Gordon Lightfoot’s birthday, but the iconic singer/songwriter is more interested in the giving than receiving of gifts. At 80-years strong, Lightfoot recently announced the gift of additional Ontario dates in his upcoming 2019 tour schedule. Tickets for dates in Richmond Hill, Belleville, Barrie, Parry Sound, St. Catharines and Oakville will go on sale November 30th. The iconic singer/songwriter behind such beloved songs such as If You Could Read My Mind, The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald, and Sundown has just completed a sold-out Ontario tour, visiting communities in Peterborough, Hamilton, London, and Kitchener-Waterloo. His concert in his hometown of Orillia on his birthday, November 17, was a benefit performance with proceeds split between the Orillia Opera House and Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital.
Tickets for the April 2019 Tour, which are expected to go quickly, will be on-sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 30th at the following venues.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Monday, November 26, 2018 – November may mark the month of Gordon Lightfoot’s birthday, but the iconic singer/songwriter is more interested in the giving than receiving of gifts. At 80-years strong, Lightfoot recently announced the gift of additional Ontario dates in his upcoming 2019 tour schedule. Tickets for dates in Richmond Hill, Belleville, Barrie, Parry Sound, St. Catharines and Oakville will go on sale November 30th. The iconic singer/songwriter behind such beloved songs such as If You Could Read My Mind, The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald, and Sundown has just completed a sold-out Ontario tour, visiting communities in Peterborough, Hamilton, London, and Kitchener-Waterloo. His concert in his hometown of Orillia on his birthday, November 17, was a benefit performance with proceeds split between the Orillia Opera House and Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital.
Tickets for the April 2019 Tour, which are expected to go quickly, will be on-sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 30th at the following venues.
April 3
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
Richmond Hill, ON
April 5 & 6
The Empire Theatre
Belleville, ON
April 8
Talk Is Free Theatre
Barrie, ON
April 9
Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
Parry Sound, ON
April 12 & 14
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
St. Catharines, ON
April 13
The Meeting House
Oakville, ON
April 15, 16 & 17
Living Arts Centre
Mississauga, ON
Beloved by music fans around the world, Gordon Lightfoot holds international recognition as a singer and songwriter. Cover versions of his songs have been recorded by artists including Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Barbara Streisand and Johnny Cash. In 1971 he earned his first Top Ten hit when If You Could Read My Mind became an international sensation and in 1974, his single Sundown went to number one on the American charts, followed two years later by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which reached number two on the U.S. Billboard charts.
Gordon Lightfoot has won 15 JUNO Awards and has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. In May 2003, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and is also a member of the Order of Ontario. In 2004 he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 2012 into the U.S. Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Lightfoot continues to perform extensively throughout the United States, Canada and in 2016 he toured the UK for 11 concerts which included the illustrious Royal Albert Hall.
