Tickets on sale Friday, December 4 at 10:00 AM
(Cincinnati, OH) – The new Jethro Tull concert tour returns to the States starting April 2016, in which Ian Anderson celebrates the life and times of English agriculturalist Jethro Tull. This tour includes a stop at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Tuesday, April 12. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 4 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787} or the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.
Ian Anderson is known as the legendary frontman for the classic rock band Jethro Tull and reimagines his namesake with a narrative set in the near future. The show presents some of the best known songs from the repertoire of the band Jethro Tull.
JETHRO TULL (The Story), written and performed by Ian Anderson, runs from April 1-16, with shows in Waukegan, IL and continuing through the Midwest in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin, and in the south in Tennessee, Alabama, and Atlanta.
In JETHRO TULL, Ian touches on topical issues including climate change, intensive food production, and population growth. New material specially written for this show includes Prosperous Pasture, Fruits Of Frankenfield, And The World Feeds Me, Stick, Twist, Bust, and The Turnstile Gate.
JETHRO TULL features, among many Tull favorites, Heavy Horses, Farm On The Freeway, Songs From The Wood, Aqualung, Living In The Past, Wind-Up, A New Day Yesterday, The Witch’s Promise, and Locomotive Breath, sometimes with slightly re-written lyrics to better tell the tale.
The show has already played in the UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina, recently finishing an eight day run in the Northeast U.S. to widely encouraging reviews. The Oakland Press writer Gary Graff offers: “A characteristically exceptional Tull concert…entertaining and original.”
Blogcritics’ Jon Sobel writes that Ian Anderson has “got plenty of creative tricks up his sleeve.”
philly.com’s A. D. Amarosi says that the show is “something new” and “weirdly winning.”
Ian is accompanied by David Goodier (bass), John O’Hara (keyboards), Florian Opahle (guitar), Scott Hammond (drums), and surprise virtual guests on screen including Ryan O’Donnell, who shared the stage with Ian in recent tours for HOMO ERRATICUS and THICK AS A BRICK, and Icelandic singer/violinist/actress Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir, who appears on screen throughout the show.
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