The Wild Card Tour

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The Wild Card Tour
Tour by Ledisi
Ledisi Wild Card Tour.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • North America
Associated album The Wild Card
Start dateOctober 13, 2021 (2021-10-13)
End dateNovember 18, 2021 (2021-11-18)
Legs1
No. of shows22
Ledisi concert chronology

The Wild Card Tour was the eighth concert tour by American singer Ledisi, in support of her ninth studio album The Wild Card (2020).

Contents

Background and development

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ledisi was unable to tour to support the release of her album The Wild Card . On June 18, 2021, Ledisi announced the Wild Card Tour via her Facebook account. [1] [2] Kenyon Dixon and Stout were also announced as the tour's opening acts. In response to the restrictions being lifted, Ledisi stated, "After bringing the show to my audience virtually and in a recording, I’m so excited to be back performing the shows live and in person!". [3]

The concert run began on October 13, 2021, at Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. The tour concluded on November 18, 2021, at Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina. [1] The set list of the shows included songs from all of Ledisi albums, with the exception of Soulsinger (2000) and Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue (2002). Tickets were distributed through Ticketmaster. Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, held a contest to giveaway two reserved tickets for her show on November 5, 2021. [4]

Recordings

On September 12, 2020, she gave on a free virtual concert titled This One's for You: A Night of Ledisi Live, [1] which was orchestrated due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The in-studio concert was recorded at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California and released as a live album titled Ledisi Live at The Troubadour on April 30, 2021. [5]

Set list

  1. "High"
  2. "Add to Me"
  3. "WKND"
  4. "Knockin'"
  5. "Alright"
  6. "Anything for You"
  7. "Best Friend"
  8. "All the Way"
  9. "Same Love"
  10. "In the Morning"
  11. "Stay Together"
  12. "Love Never Changes"
  13. "Pieces of Me"
  14. "I Blame You"

Tour dates

List of concerts showing date, city, country, venue and opening acts
Date (2021)CityCountryVenueOpening act(s)
October 13 Austin United StatesParamount Theatre Kenyon Dixon
October 14 Houston Cullen Theatre
October 15 Grand Prairie Theatre At Grand Prairie
October 17 New Orleans New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
October 19 Charlotte Knight Theater Kenyon Dixon
October 20 Greenville Peace Center
October 22 Atlantic City Circus Maximus
October 23 Newark New Jersey Performing Arts Center Kenyon Dixon
October 24 Westbury Theater At Westbury
October 26 Bethesda Strathmore
October 27 Wallingford Oakdale
November 4 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo State Theatre
November 5 Cincinnati Taft Theatre
November 6 Hammond Horseshoe Casino
November 7 Indianapolis Gyptian Room
November 8 Cleveland House of Blues
November 12 Chattanooga Tivoli Theater
November 13 Tunica Resorts Horseshoe Tunica
November 14 Birmingham The Lyric TheatreStout
November 16 Atlanta Atlanta Symphony Hall
November 17 Charleston Charleston Music Hall
November 18 Durham Carolina Theater

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References

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