In order to honor the memory of a great musician, the Bowie collaborators will gather for a big tribute tour. Among them will be Mike Garson, Adrian Belew (King Crimson), Carmine Rojas, Gerry Leonard, Angelo Moore and Gaby Moreno.
Bowie would have been 70 years old on January 8, 2017. The big tour 'Celebrating David Bowie' dedicated to this event supposed to hit 26 cities across Europe and US. The main participants in the tour will be the musicians with whom David more or less collaborated during his whole music career. At this time, the following names are known - pianist Mike Garson, Adrian Belew (King Crimson), Carmine Rojas, Gerry Leonard, Angelo Moore and Gaby Moreno. Moreover, creators of the tour do not exclude the participation of others “additional special guests.”
All these people occasionally have played an important role in David's entire career and his life. For example, pianist Mike Garson accompanied the star during a Ziggy Stardust tour from 1972-1973, taking a position of a keyboard player.
Adrian Belew is better known as King Crimson was slated to appear as the guitarist of many David's tours, and later became his music director of Sound + Vision Tour in 1990. Another guitarist Gerry Leonard helped in recording such albums as Heathen (2002), Reality (2003) and The Next Day (2013). The bass guitarist Carmine Rojas has distinguished himself in David’s career with recording "Let's Dance" and "Modern, Love" compositions.
Another additional Bowie collaborator Angelo Moore performed a tribute cover of “Ashes to Ashes” at 2016 Celebrating David Bowie concert in LA, which also included Ewan McGregor, Gary Oldman, and Seal. As the same, as Gaby Moreno, who performed “Five Years” at another Bowie Tribute concert organized by Oldman in San Francisco the same year.
It became known that the guitarist Angelo Bundini becomes the main organizer of the ‘Celebrating David Bowie’. He said about the upcoming event:
"I don't like to give away too much detail, but I will say that we will perform all the very biggest Bowie songs you'd expect, plus many favorites we didn't play last time, from Space Oddity (1969) all the way up to Blackstar (2016). We'll touch on everything one way or another... The last shows were about communities coming together to reflect on David and his music. But David was famous for not being nostalgic, so this time we're going to follow his lead by being more Bowie-future than Bowie-past. It's the same beloved Bowie catalog, but a whole new approach that's, even more, Bowie than our last shows."
The tour will last for two months and begin in Paris on January 10 and ends in Portland on March 11. In order to check the dates of tours look down:
"Celebrating David Bowie" tour dates: