Songs in the Key of Life Tour

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Songs in the Key of Life Tour
Tour by Stevie Wonder
LocationNorth America
Associated album Songs in the Key of Life
Start dateNovember 6, 2014 (2014-11-06)
End dateNovember 24, 2015 (2015-11-24)
Legs3
No. of shows44
Box office$41.7 million
Stevie Wonder concert chronology
  • Wonder Summer's Night Tour
    (2008–09)
  • Songs in the Key of Life Tour
    (2014)

The Songs in the Key of Life Tour was a mini date concert tour by American recording artist Stevie Wonder. [1] [2] The set list for the tour showcases performances of Wonder performing every song from his eighteenth studio album, Songs in the Key of Life , which coincides with the anniversary of the album's original release in September 1976. [3]

Contents

Setlist

  1. "Love's in Need of Love Today"
  2. "Have a Talk with God" ft Frédéric Yonnet
  3. "Village Ghetto Land"
  4. "Contusion"
  5. "Sir Duke"
  6. "I Wish"
  7. "Knocks Me Off My Feet"
  8. "Pastime Paradise"
  9. "Summer Soft"
  10. "Ordinary Pain"
  11. "Saturn"
  12. "Ebony Eyes"

Intermission

  1. "Isn't She Lovely"
  2. "Joy Inside My Tears"
  3. "Black Man"
  4. "All Day Sucker"
  5. "Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)" ft Frédéric Yonnet
  6. "Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing"
  7. "If It's Magic"
  8. "As"
  9. "Another Star"
  10. "Superstition"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
North America
November 6, 2014New York CityUnited States Madison Square Garden
November 9, 2014Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
November 11, 2014 Boston TD Garden
November 14, 2014 Chicago United Center
November 16, 2014 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
November 20, 2014 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills
November 22, 2014 Atlanta Philips Arena
November 25, 2014 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
November 29, 2014 Las Vegas United States MGM Grand Garden Arena
December 3, 2014 Seattle Key Arena
December 5, 2014 Oakland Oracle Arena
December 20, 2014 Inglewood The Forum
March 17, 2015 Denver Pepsi Center
March 20, 2015 Houston Toyota Center
March 22, 2015 Dallas American Airlines Center
March 24, 2015 New Orleans Smoothie King Center
March 27, 2015 Louisville KFC Yum! Center
March 29, 2015 Minneapolis Target Center
April 1, 2015 Columbus Schottenstein Center
April 4, 2015 Austin Frank Erwin Center
April 7, 2015 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
April 9, 2015 Baltimore Royal Farms Arena
April 12, 2015 Brooklyn Barclays Center
April 14, 2015 Newark Prudential Center
September 30, 2015 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
October 3, 2015Washington, D.C.United StatesVerizon Center
October 7, 2015PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center
October 9, 2015TorontoCanadaAir Canada Centre
October 11, 2015 Hartford United States XL Center
October 14, 2015NewarkPrudential Center
October 16, 2015ChicagoUnited Center
October 19, 2015 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center
October 23, 2015 Kansas City Sprint Center
October 25, 2015 St. Louis Scottrade Center
October 31, 2015 San Antonio AT&T Center
November 3, 2015 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena
November 5, 2015 Little Rock Verizon Arena
November 7, 2015 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse
November 10, 2015 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena
November 14, 2015 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena
November 17, 2015 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena
November 19, 2015 Buffalo First Niagara Center
November 21, 2015Detroit Joe Louis Arena
November 24, 2015New York CityMadison Square Garden

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