Elvis & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel Woods, NY, July 20, 2024

[Man out of Time]

Elvis' Co-Headlining tour with Daryl Hall, will continue at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel Woods, NY, on Saturday July 20th. Elvis will be joined by The Imposters and Charlie Sexton again.

The Pavilion Stage Amphitheatre seats 15,000 people. Of these, 4,500 are covered seats and the natural sloping lawn can accommodate up to 10,500 people. It opened on July 4, 2006 (according to WIkipedia). Elvis and the Imposters have played this venue once before, on the "Blondie and The Beastly E.C." tour in 2019.

The venue website has this to say about Elvis (from his current tour press release):

"Elvis Costello is a writer and part-time musician who made a number of records in the 20th Century, some of which are still remembered today. He was born in London and raised there and in Liverpool. He is the composer or lyricist of over six hundred published titles, including fifteen songs co-written with Paul McCartney and renowned collaborations with Allen Toussaint, the Brodsky Quartet and T Bone Burnett. Costello’s songwriting alliance with Burt Bacharach, began in 1995 with the song, “God Give Me Strength”, which led to the 1998 album, Painted From Memory, before their work was collected in 2023, on the four-album set, The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello.

Elvis Costello songs have been recorded by Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Chet Baker, Dusty Springfield, Solomon Burke, George Jones, Linda Ronstadt and Bjork, while among the artists with whom he has written songs are Loretta Lynn, Carole King, Rosanne Cash and Kris Kristofferson and his wife, Diana Krall. Working purely as lyricists, Costello has has provided words for the music of Billy Strayhorn, Oscar Peterson and for twelve Charles Mingus compositions and as a composer, set twelve unpublished lyrics by Bob Dylan. He has received a range of awards over his 45 years old career of which induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame is probably the most significant.

Costello currently performs with The Imposters; his long time companions, drummer, Pete Thomas and pianist, Steve Nieve, bassist of twenty-three years standing, Davey Faragher and their special guest, Texas guitarist, Charlie Sexton."

Tickets are now on sale here priced between $25 (lawn seats and something called "Concert week promotion") and $400.00 (front box seats). There are also various resale tickets available at higher prices. The venue website is showing maybe 25% - 30% of covered seat tickets sold, so seats are still available at all prices.

Who's going?

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