The Born Free Tour

The Born Free Tour

Tour by Kerry Ellis
Promotional image for the first leg of Ellis' tour in 2012
Start date	5 November 2012
End date	17 July 2013
Legs	3
No. of shows	28
Kerry Ellis concert chronology
Anthems: The Tour (2011) The Born Free Tour (2012–13)

The Born Free Tour is the second headlining concert tour by English stage actress and singer Kerry Ellis with Brian May. ^[1] The original 2012 tour comprised 11 dates in and around the home counties of England, beginning on 5 November 2012 at the Apex in Bury St Edmunds, and finishing at the Swan Theatre in High Wycombe.

A second leg will tour further venues in England, and also visit Ireland and Wales. It will begin on 17 June 2013 at St John Evangelist Church, Oxford, and finish at the Dublin Olympia on 30 June 2013. ^[2] A third leg will see Ellis and May taking The Born Free Tour to mainland Europe, for one date in France, one in Austria and four in Italy in July 2013.

Unlike the previously extravagant Anthems: The Tour (2011), this tour is presented as a series of intimate and acoustic shows performed under candlelight where the pair perform to raise awareness of their work for the Born Free Foundation. Receiving positive reviews, the tour was complimented by critics for the pairing of May's sound and Ellis' vocals.^{[ citation needed ]}

Ellis and May released a live album from the first leg of The Born Free Tour, Acoustic by Candlelight , available digitally, on CD, and on vinyl. The album was released on 17 June 2013 to coincide with the second leg of the tour.^{[ citation needed ]}

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
First leg
5 November 2012	Bury St Edmunds	England	The Apex
6 November 2012	Leamington Spa		Leamington Assembly Halls
7 November 2012	Corby		Corby Cube
9 November 2012	Tunbridge Wells		Assembly Hall Theatre
10 November 2012	Brighton		St George's Church
11 November 2012	London		Union Chapel
12 November 2012	St Albans		St. Alban's Arena
15 November 2012	Crawley		Hawth Theatre
16 November 2012	Portsmouth		New Theatre Royal
17 November 2012	Salisbury		Salisbury Playhouse
19 November 2012	High Wycombe		Wycombe Swan
Second leg
17 June 2013	Oxford	England	St John Evangelist Church
18 June 2013	Bournemouth		Pavilion Theatre
19 June 2013	Basingstoke		The Anvil
21 June 2013	Northampton		Royal & Derngate
23 June 2013	Liverpool		Philharmonic Hall
24 June 2013	Birmingham		Birmingham Town Hall
25 June 2013	Salford		The Lowry
26 June 2013	Gateshead		The Sage Gateshead
28 June 2013	Malvern		Malvern Theatre
29 June 2013	Llandudno	Wales	Venue Cymru
30 June 2013	Dublin	Ireland	Olympia Theatre
Third leg
8 July 2013	Paris	France	La Cigale
13 July 2013	Sogliano al Rubicone	Italy	Piazza Matteotti
14 July 2013	Pescara		Teatro d’Annunzio
15 July 2013	Klagenfurt	Austria	Wörtherseebühne
16 July 2013	Grado	Italy	Diga Nazario Sauro
17 July 2013	Milan		Auditorium di Milano
19 July 2013	Montreux	Switzerland	Stravinski Auditorium

Setlist

First leg

5 November 2012 [3] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Cosi Celeste" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "Since You've Been Gone" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

6 November 2012 [4] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Cosi Celeste" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

7 November 2012 [5] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Cosi Celeste" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

9 November 2012 [6] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Cosi Celeste" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

10 November 2012 [7] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "Since You've Been Gone" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

11 November 2012 [8] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "Since You've Been Gone" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

12 November 2012 "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "Since You've Been Gone" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

15 November 2012 "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "Since You've Been Gone" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "Last Horizon" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

16 November 2012 [9] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Good Company "Tie Your Mother Down" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

17 November 2012 "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Good Company "Tie Your Mother Down" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

19 November 2012 [10] "Born Free" "I Loved A Butterfly" "I (Who Have Nothing)" "Dust in the Wind" "Kissing Me" "Somebody to Love" "Nothing Really Has Changed" "Life Is Real" "The Way We Were" "'39" "Something" "Love Of My Life" "I'm Not That Girl" "Can't Be Your Friend" "Good Company "Tie Your Mother Down" "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions" Encore "In the Bleak Midwinter" "Born Free" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

Acoustic by Candlelight

Acoustic by Candlelight: Live on the Born Free tour
Live album by Kerry Ellis and Brian May
Released	17 June 2013 (2013-06-17)
Recorded	2012
Genre	Acoustic rock
Label	Duck Productions
Producer	Brian May
Kerry Ellis and Brian May chronology
Acoustic by Candlelight: Live on the Born Free tour (2013) Golden Days (2017)
Brian May chronology
Furia (2000) Acoustic by Candlelight (2013)

Standard edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Born Free" (originally by Matt Monro)	3:17
2.	"I Loved a Butterfly" (originally by Queen + Paul Rodgers)	4:48
3.	"I (Who Have Nothing)" (originally by Ben E. King)	3:44
4.	"Dust in the Wind" (originally by Kansas)	4:21
5.	"The Kissing Me Song" (*)	4:25
6.	"Nothing Really Has Changed" (originally written by Virginia McKenna)	4:55
7.	"Life is Real" (†)	4:30
8.	"The Way We Were" (originally by Barbra Streisand)	3:43
9.	"Something" (originally by The Beatles)	4:31
10.	"Love of My Life" (†)	4:37
11.	"I'm Not that Girl" (from the musical Wicked )	3:25
12.	"I Can't Be Your Friend" (*)	4:31
13.	"In the Bleak Midwinter" (traditional Christmas carol)	3:44
14.	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (†)	3:46
15.	"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (†)	6:04

Notes:

• (*) Original songs written by Ellis and May
• (†) Songs originally by Queen

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Edition	Catalog
United Kingdom	17 June 2013	CD	Duck Productions	Standard
	24 June 2013	Vinyl, digital download
United States	6 August 2013	Digital download

References

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