Linda Ronstadt Songbook NZ Regional Tour
Linda Ronstadt Songbook NZ Regional Tour - Supporting
Parkinson Disease
This tour supports The Shake It
Up Foundation for Parkinsons Disease
Bloom
joins the likes of Australian Television presenter Liz
Cantor, TV personality Sally Obermeder and fellow artist
Peter Byrne (Neil Diamond performer) as an official
ambassador for the foundation and will utilise her shows to
raise funds for the foundation.
Friday April
5th - Globe Theatre Palmerston
North
Saturday April 6th - Upper Hutt
Cossie Club
Sunday April 7th - Carterton
Events Centre
+ Special guest
Sponsored by
Kingdom Music - Hutt City
Linda Ronstadt is a name
familiar with many and one that spans many genres. She is
one of the world’s best-selling artists of all
time.
Celebrating 40 years since she first toured
Australia in February 1979 at the time when her “Living In
the USA” album was riding high, Linda charmed audiences
for the first time at Perth’s Subiaco Oval before selling
out around the country including the iconic
MCG.
Linda’s voice and naive sex appeal have sold her
in excess of 100 million records globally.
She has
released over 30 studio albums, is the winner of 11 Grammys,
three American Music Awards and one Emmy Award.
She
charted 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles and has collaborated
with artists in diverse genres including – Bette Midler,
Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton,
Neil Young, Paul Simon and Johnny Cash.
In 2019,
acclaimed singer/songwriter, Bloom, brings the music of
Linda Ronstadt to life with an incredible band featuring
some of Australia’s most respected musicians.
Expect to
hear tracks that made up the 1979 tour set list including
timeless hits as Blue Bayou, When Will I Be Loved, It’s So
Easy, When Something Is Wrong With My Baby, That’ll Be The
Day, Just One Look, Back In The U.S.A, Poor Poor Pitiful Me
and many more.
Constantly feeling she was born in to the
wrong generation, for Bloom, this tour is as personal as it
gets.
Bloom has a feverish connection with the decades of
the 60’s and 70’s and has a strong urge to bring Linda
Ronstadt and the music that is her legacy to the future
generations, embracing and reinvigorating Linda’s rich
musical history and the architecture she has left on the
music industry.
It is widely known that Linda was forced
to retire from singing in 2009 as a result of Parkinson’s
disease. Subsequently, Bloom is lending her voice with this
tour to help raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease
supporting the Shake It Up Australia Foundation’s quest to
find a cure – a foundation that is partnered with The
Michael J. Fox Foundation. Bloom joins the likes of
Television presenter Liz Cantor, TV personality Sally
Obermeder and fellow artist Peter Byrne (Neil Diamond
performer) as an official ambassador for the foundation and
will utilise her shows to raise funds for the
foundation.
“I am very honoured to be an ambassador for
Shake It Up Australia,” says Bloom. “I not only get to
perform the songs of one of my all-time favourite artists,
Linda Ronstadt, but at the same time raise funds and
awareness for Parkinson's disease in a hope to find better
treatments and ultimately a cure for Australian's and their
families living with Parkinson's”.
Bloom has had heads
turning and has been gaining International critical acclaim
with her effortless soulful vocal resonance of power
vocalists Adele and Amy Winehouse with her Adele & Amy
Songbook tour.
She has been described as “one of
Australia’s finest vocalists” and Six-Time Golden Guitar
Award Winning singer/songwriter Melinda Schneider describing
her as “the next generation of amazing vocalists!”
As
Linda did to Australian audiences in 1979, come and be
charmed by the Australian vocal powerhouse that is Bloom and
celebrate all that is Linda Ronstadt.
Donations can be made for Shake It Up Australia via collection tins at each of Bloom’s shows or online at www.bloomofficial.com.au