In honor of those lost: Bush declares September 16 a national day of remembrance for Katrina’s victims. Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin was also criticized for lack of preparedness and for not fully implementing his evacuation plan for the city.įamous Quote: Kayne West says “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” during the Septemlive broadcast of A Concert for Hurricane Relief on NBC. He told Rolling Stone recently that hell be road-testing songs from his anticipated new cyborg-ish album, so this current Summer Soulstice tour could. Bush was criticized for slow and disorganized response to the catastrophe, especially in the flooded lower 9 th ward of New Orleans which is predominately black. Winds reached 145 miles per hour and 80% of New Orleans was flooded to rooftop levels.Ĭontroversy: Former President George W. Though classified as a category 4, Katrina briefly reached category 5 status. MoDre served as Music Director for Maxwell’s Summer Soulstice Tour with Kevin Ross in 2014, Raury’s Laneway Australian Tour in 2014 and Raw for the Oceans European Tour in 2015. Stats: Category 4 hurricane and the third most powerful of 2005, Hurricane Katrina was the worst natural disaster in U.S. More information on other dates, including ticket sales, are available on the tour’s website.Where: Gulf Coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Tickets for his Staples Center date, as part of the 2014 BET Experience, are currently on sale through Axs. Maybe this means a new album is finally on the horizon? The Brooklyn, NY native redefined soul music with the release of his 1996 debut album, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite. He was forced to cancel the tour when doctors put him on vocal rest after he developed vocal cord edema and a vocal cord haemorrhage. Grammy award-winning American singer-songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist, Maxwell is currently on a 35+ date Summer Soulstice tour taking place between June, July and August his first major dates in 4 years. That same year he announced the MaxwellTwoNight tour, a limited engagement of two-night stands in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey, in which he planned on performing his entire discography. On the summer solstice I liked to take in the sunrise from the river's vista, early though it may be. The second installment was expected to arrive in 2012. He’s scheduled to play the Santa Barbara Bowl before he hits Staples Center.Īfter Maxwell released his critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning comeback album BLACKsummers’night in 2009 - his first in eight years - he embarked on a mega-successful co-headlining tour with R&B songstress Jill Scott.īLACKsummers’night was supposed to be the first of a trilogy of albums, but nearly five years have passed since its release, and fans have yet to get new music.
The tour launches June 14 in Milwaukee and wraps on August 17 in Albuquerque. The 37-date Summer Soulstice tour will take Maxwell across North America on his first major tour since 2010. He did promise a trilogy of albums beginning with 2009s BLACKsummers’night. Looks like Maxwell is ready to end his disappearing act.īut the gig is also part of a summer trek that the singer will launch in June. Maxwell is back with his first tour in four years The Pretty Wings singer’s Summer Solstice tour will kick off in June and will be heating up 37 cities from June through August.
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