Renaissance: In Gratitude Farewell Tour
Skylands Performing Arts Center
Progressive rock pioneers, Renaissance, rose from the ashes of the seminal UK rock band, The Yardbirds. The band's career has spanned over 50 years and is spearheaded by the five-octave voice of Annie Haslam, woven together with classical influences and masterful songwriting. Their top 10 hit “Northern Lights” is just one highlight of their vast song repertoire in their 'In Gratitude Farewell Tour'. Platinum-selling recording artist and world class guitarist, Orianthi plays The Newton Theatre.
Orianthi’s first major solo artist success, as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, was with the Geffen Records release of “According To You,” which is now RIAA-Certified Platinum® and has over 29 million streams on Spotify. Her music’s ability to transcend time and remain relevant cannot be more clear than its recent resurgence on TikTok. There are over 110 million views on the “According to You” hashtag making it a viral trend that is introducing Gen Z to Orianthi for the first time in a big way. Career-long fans are used to seeing their favorite world class guitarist playing arenas with rock royalty and global superstars like Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, Carrie Underwood, Alice Cooper and more. The juxtaposition of her newly arrived online popularity and her lifelong pursuit of artistic credibility shows the transcendence of this shining star.
Renaissance is a band with a rich history unique unto themselves as progressive rock pioneers who rose from the ashes of the seminal UK rock band, The Yardbirds. Acclaimed for their unique blending of progressive rock with classical and symphonic influences, the band's career has now spanned over fifty years spearheaded by the 5-octave voice of Annie Haslam and the masterful songwriting skills of the late Michael Dunford and Betty Thatcher. They are widely considered to be the band that most successfully and routinely utilized the sound of a full orchestra in their recordings.
The band has toured throughout the world and has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and additionally at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Chorale Society. Renaissance had a top ten hit in the UK with their song “Northern Lights” that still demands airplay to this day. In recent years the band has toured the U.S, Europe, Japan and Brazil and released several ‘live’ concerts on CD and DVD’s to critical acclaim!
In this concert season of 2024, the band will be traveling the U.S, presenting a repertoire of the most popular Renaissance classics spanning the bands vast and successful career.
This will be their ‘IN GRATITUDE’ FAREWELL Tour.
https://skypac.org/renaissance/
