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Yola Announces 2022 Headline Tour Dates

The "Stand for Myself Tour" comes in support of her new sophomore album of the same name

Yola has announced an early Spring 2022 headlining tour in support of her newly released sophomore album, Stand for Myself .

The trek launches on February 8th with a gig at Boston’s Big Night Live, and stretches through an April 27th show at Las Vegas’ House of Blues. Stops in between include a two-night stand at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, plus dates in Philadelphia, Richmond, Asheville, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco, and just about everywhere else.

“Considering how much fun we’ve had playing Stand for Myself live on these returning summer shows, I cannot wait to get out on the road in February and see all of your beautiful faces as we play songs from this record and more,” said Yola in a press statement.

Those summer concerts include a record release show at a Newport Folk Festival afterparty. Yola also has a fall 2021 run lined up supporting Chris Stapleton.

Yola on Stand for Myself and Playing Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann’s New Film

Find Yola’s complete tour itinerary ahead, and check for tickets via Ticketmaster or the secondary market . You can also find full ticketing and touring info at Yola’s website .

Yola 2021-2022 Tour Dates: 08/21 – Arlington, TX @ Globe Life Park * 08/22 – Austin360 Amphitheater @ Outlaw Music Festival 09/03 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest 09/05 – Aspen, CO @ Jazz Aspen Snowmass 09/10 – Bristol, VA @ Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival 09/11 – Chattanooga, TN @ Moon River Festival 09/12 – St. Augustine, FL @ Sing Out Loud Festival 09/16 – Maryland Height, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre * 09/17 – Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre * 09/18 – Orange Beach, AL @ The Wharf Amphitheatre * 09/25 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * 09/26 – Dana Point, CA @ Ohana Music Festival 10/07 – Rocky Mount, VA @ Harvester Performance Center 10/08 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden * 10/14 – Columbia, MO @ Mizzou Arena * 10/15 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena * 10/16 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center * 10/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * 10/22 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena * 10/23 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena * 10/28 – Lubbock, TX @ United Supermarket Arena * 10/29 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater * 10/30 – Phoenix, AZ @ AK-Chin Pavilion * 11/04 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center * 11/05 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center * 11/06 – The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion * 11/28 – Rough Trade @ Bristol, UK 12/03 – Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum * 12/04 – Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum * 12/05 – Knoxville, TN @ Thompson-Boling Arena * 02/01-05 – Riviera Maya, MX @ Girls Just Wanna Weekend 02/08 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live # 02/11 – Washington DC @ Lincoln Theatre # 02/13 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theatre # 02/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ TBA 02/17 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall # 02/19 – Des Moines, IA@ Hoyt Sherman Place # 02/23 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue # 03/03 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium & 03/04- Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium + 03/11 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall 03/13 – Richmond, VA @ The National # 03/15 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel # 03/16 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz # 03/18 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall # 03/19 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern # 03/20 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn # 03/22 – Little Rock, AR @ TBA 03/23 – New Orleans, LA @ The Joy Theater # 03/25 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory ^ 03/26 – Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater ^ 03/27 – Austin, TX@ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater ^ 03/29 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater # 03/30 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Jones Assembly # 04/01 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen # 04/02 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre # 04/03 – Boulder, CO@ Boulder Theater # 04/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot # 04/06 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory # 04/07 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM # 04/09 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma # 04/10 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox # 04/11 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater # 04/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore # 04/15 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades # 04/20 – Toledo, OH @ Huntington Center * 04/21 – Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center * 04/23 – Kroger Field. Lexington, KY @ A Concert for Kentucky * 04/27 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues 05/01 – Indio, CA @ Stagecoach Festival

* = w/ Chris Stapleton # = w/ Jac Ross ^ = w/ Jac Ross and Nick Connors & = w/ Allison Russel + = w/ Devon Gilfillian

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Today, Yola announced details of a forthcoming EP project titled,  My Way,  landing May 24. Executive produced by Yola and Sean Douglas, a Grammy Award-winning producer noted for his work with artists including Lizzo, Chris Brown, Madonna, Selena Gomez and Sia. Yola also confirmed “Future Enemies” will be the first single from the EP, released on February 9.

Yola will be taking this new music on the road, with a fan-first touring experience, designed to give fans a first listen to the forthcoming EP. The My Way: An Intimate Tour will see Yola performing shows in limited capacity sized rooms across select cities including Racket in New York, The Atlantis in D.C., El Rey in Los Angeles, Terminal West in Atlanta, and Basement East in Nashville, with tickets on sale on Friday, January 19, further information below and  here .

Says Yola:  “ Welcome to my new era: a utopia of black creativity, freedom and power. I cannot wait for fans to hear my new music – written and conceived in rooms of diversity – inspired by music I’ve long loved from Janet Jackson to Anderson.Paak to Mary J. Blige. I’m taking these new songs on the road to play for fans to hear it first in intimate venues– true fans know I’ve always been genre-fluid, experimenting and reworking my catalogue through live performance to encompass my love of soul, R&B, electronica and beyond. If you’ve seen the shows you already know where this is heading. This new music is the culmination of that work. This project is also born of my desire to surround myself with creatives of color, to express myself on every level of making this music, and finally, to do this all my way.”

TOUR DATES:

3/6 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East

3/8 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West

3/22 – Pelham, TN – The Caverns Session PBS Taping

3/25 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey

4/15 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis

4/18 – Manhattan, NY – Racket NYC

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Yola Announces 2022 ‘Stand For Myself’ U.S. Headlining Tour

Yola  has announced a lengthy U.S. leg of headlining tour dates set to run throughout February, March, and April of 2022. The tour comes in support of the genre-blending English artist’s recently released, critically acclaimed sophomore album, Stand For Myself .

Stops on the lengthy tour include two nights at Nashville’s historic  Ryman Auditorium (3/3, 3/4), a show at Chicago’s landmark Thalia Hall (2/17), a performance at Atlanta’s state-of-the-art new venue The Eastern , and many more.

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, August 13th at 10 a.m. local venue time and with an exclusive Spotify Fans First pre-sale set for August 11th.

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The tour announcement follows a run of standout performances by Yola this summer including slots at Newport Folk and Newport Jazz as well as a knockout performance in her debut at Red Rocks alongside Orville Peck .

As the powerhouse singer-songwriter noted in a statement, “Considering how much fun we’ve had playing Stand For Myself live on these returning summer shows, I cannot wait to get out on the road in February and see all of your beautiful faces as we play songs from this record and more.”

As Yola’s team noted of the ongoing threat of the coronavirus with regard to the tour, “The health and safety of Yola, her band, her crew, and her fans is of the utmost importance to us all. We are aware that safety precautions and best practices concerning COVID-19 are constantly changing and as a team we will continue to monitor the situation. Fans should be prepared that best practices for the show they want to attend may include providing proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, as well as following industry, local or national guidance surrounding the wearing of masks. We all want to get back on the road, but we want to do that safely and in a way that ensures sustainability for our industry.”

Ahead of the 2022 dates, Yola still has a busy schedule of shows in 2021 including a number of notable festival appearances and a run of tour dates supporting  Chris Stapleton . For a full list of upcoming Yola tour dates, click below. For ticketing details and more information, head here .

Yola  Stand For Myself 2021–2022 Tour Dates

2021 Aug 21 – Globe Life Park – Arlington, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Aug 22 – Outlaw Music Festival – Austin360 Amphitheater Sep 3 – Summerfest Sep 5 – Jazz Aspen Snowmass Sep 10 – Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival Sep 11 – Moon River Festival Sep 12 – Sing Out Loud Festival Sep 16 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – Maryland Height, MO – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 17 – Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – Birmingham, AL – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 18 – The Wharf Amphitheatre – Orange Beach, AL – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 25 – Ruoff Music Center. Noblesville, IN – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 26 – Ohana Music Festival Oct 7 – Harvester Performance Center – Rocky Mount, VA Oct 8 – Madison Square Garden – NYC, NY – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 14 – Mizzou Arena – Columbia, MO – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 15 – Pinnacle Bank Arena – Lincoln, NE – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 16 – Denny Sanford Premier Center – Sioux Falls, SD – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 21 – Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 22 & 23 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 28 – United Supermarket Arena – Lubbock, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 29 – Isleta Amphitheater – Albuquerque, NM – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 30 – AK-Chin Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 4 – Frank Erwin Center – Austin, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 5 – BOK Center – Tulsa, OK – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 6 – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – The Woodlands, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 28 – Bristol, Eng – Rough Trade Dec 3 – FedEx Forum – Memphis, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton Dec 4 – Mississippi Coast Coliseum – Biloxi, MS – w/ Chris Stapleton Dec 5 – Thompson-Boling Arena – Knoxville, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton

2022 Feb 1-5 – Girls Just Wanna Weekend Feb 8 – Big Night Live – Boston, MA* Feb 11 – Lincoln Theatre – Washington D.C* Feb 13 – Jefferson Theatre – Charlottesville, VA* Feb 15 – Philadelphia, PA – venue TBA on sale TBA Feb 17 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL* Feb 19 – Hoyt Sherman Place – Des Moines, IA* Feb 23 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN* Mar 3 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Allison Russell Mar 4 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Devon Gilfillian Mar 11 – Saint Andrew’s Hall – Detroit, MI Mar 13 – The National – Richmond, VA* Mar 15 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC* Mar 16 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC* Mar 18 – Charleston Music Hall – Charleston, SC* Mar 19 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA* Mar 20 – Saturn – Birmingham, AL* Mar 22 – Little Rock, AR – venue TBA on sale TBA Mar 23 – The Joy Theater – New Orleans, LA* Mar 25 – Studio at the Factory – Dallas, TX*+ Mar 26 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX*+ Mar 27 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX*+ Mar 29 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO* Mar 30 – The Jones Assembly – Oklahoma City, OK* April 1 – Belly Up Aspen – Aspen, CO* April 2 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO* April 3 – Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO* Apr 5 – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT* Apr 6 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID* Apr 7 – The ELM – Bozeman, MT* Apr 9 – The Wilma – Missoula, MT* Apr 10 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA* Apr 11 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR* Apr 14 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA* Apr 15 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA* April 20 – Huntington Center. Toledo, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 21 – Schottenstein Center. Columbus, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 23 – A Concert for Kentucky – Kroger Field. Lexington, KY – w/ Chris Stapleton Apr 27 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV May 1 – Stagecoach Festival

*Jac Ross opening +Jac Ross and Nick Connors

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Yola is set for two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.

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Yola has announced her upcoming early spring 2022 headline tour dates that will see her perform shows at venues across the US, including two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Chicago’s landmark Thalia Hall, Atlanta’s state-of-the-art The Eastern, Birmingham’s Saturn and more. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, August 13 at 10am (local) and with an exclusive Spotify Fans First presale on Aug 11.

Yola stated, “Considering how much fun we’ve had playing Stand For Myself live on these returning summer shows, I cannot wait to get out on the road in February and see all of your beautiful faces as we play songs from this record and more.”

The tour is announced after a successful run of standout performances this summer at Newport Folk and Newport Jazz as well as a knockout performance when she made her Red Rocks debut, co-headlining with Orville Peck.

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Yola’s Stand For Myself was released to near unanimous acclaim. Rolling Stone Magazine described it as “an album that reflects her musical journey, with songs that nod to various styles of R&B and dance music.” Slate praised her new music as “absolutely remarkable” and Entertainment Weekly claimed “her vocals recall the poise and grandeur of music’s greatest vintage pop singers, from Dusty Springfield to Shirley Bassey.”

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Stand 4 Myself Tour Dates:

Feb 1-5 – Girls Just Wanna Weekend Feb 8 – Big Night Live – Boston, MA* Feb 11 – Lincoln Theatre – Washington D.C* Feb 13 – Jefferson Theatre – Charlottesville, VA* Feb 15 – Philadelphia, PA – venue TBA on sale TBA Feb 17 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL* Feb 19 – Hoyt Sherman Place – Des Moines, IA* Feb 23 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN* Mar 3 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Allison Russell Mar 4 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Devon Gilfillian Mar 11 – Saint Andrew’s Hall – Detroit, MI Mar 13 – The National – Richmond, VA* Mar 15 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC* Mar 16 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC* Mar 18 – Charleston Music Hall – Charleston, SC* Mar 19 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA* Mar 20 – Saturn – Birmingham, AL* Mar 22 – Little Rock, AR – venue TBA on sale TBA Mar 23 – The Joy Theater – New Orleans, LA* Mar 25 – Studio at the Factory – Dallas, TX*+ Mar 26 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX*+ Mar 27 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX*+ Mar 29 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO* Mar 30 – The Jones Assembly – Oklahoma City, OK* April 1 – Belly Up Aspen – Aspen, CO* April 2 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO* April 3 – Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO* Apr 5 – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT* Apr 6 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID* Apr 7 – The ELM – Bozeman, MT* Apr 9 – The Wilma – Missoula, MT* Apr 10 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA* Apr 11 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR* Apr 14 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA* Apr 15 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA* April 20 – Huntington Center. Toledo, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 21 – Schottenstein Center. Columbus, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 23 – A Concert for Kentucky – Kroger Field. Lexington, KY – w/ Chris Stapleton Apr 27 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV May 1 – Stagecoach Festival

*Jac Ross opening +Jac Ross and Nick Connors

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Yola Details Headlining Walk Through Fire World Tour

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British singer-songwriter Yola has announced dates for her headlining Walk Through Fire Tour, which picks up in mid-November and runs through the early part of 2020. In conjunction with the news, Yola also released a new live performance of “It Ain’t Easy,” which appears on her 2019 album Walk Through Fire .

Yola, the ascendant Americana star , is currently playing a handful of U.S festival dates before she picks up a few shows on Kacey Musgraves’ Oh What a World Tour, including an October 25th stop at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. She’ll head back to Europe in early November, opening for rock band Greta Van Fleet’s world tour , but will still play a few headlining shows between them. By the close of December, Yola will be back in North America, where she’s set to ring in 2020 with Old Crow Medicine Show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium before resuming her headlining shows. Joining her for most of the U.S. trek will be singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah.

Earlier in 2019, Yola released Walk Through Fire , which was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and put out by his Easy Eye Sound label. It’s earned her fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and even quite a few in very high places.

“The response has made me highly emotional,” she recently told Rolling Stone . “Getting tweeted by Kendall Jenner and Jamie Lee Curtis was not on the list of things I expected for this record.”

Even more recently, Yola popped up on the powerful theme song from the Highwomen, the supergroup of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby.

Yola – Walk Through Fire World Tour dates:

November 16 – Berlin, Germany @ Musik & Frieden November 17 – Hamburg, Germany @ HÄKKEN November 22 – Milano, Italy @ Santeria Toscana 31 November 28 – Paris, France @ Café de la Danse November 30 – Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Òran Mór December 1 – Dublin, Ireland @ Olympia Theatre December 3 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ Gorilla December 4 – London, United Kingdom @ Islington Assembly Hall December 11 – Port Chester, NY @ Garcia’s January 7 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair January 10 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club January 11 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live January 12 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern January 14 – Evanston, IL @ Space January 15 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club January 17 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway January 19 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar January 21 – Cincinnati, OH @ Ballroom at the Taft Theatre January 22 – Asheville, NC @ the Grey Eagle January 23 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle January 24 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West January 29 – Puerto Alvaro Obregon, Mexico @ Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya February 7 – Houston, TX @ the Heights Theater February 9 – Dallas, TX @ the Kessler Theater February 11 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater February 12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ the State Room February 14 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station February 15 – Missoula, MT @ Top Hat February 16 – Seattle, WA @ the Crocodile February 18 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue Nightclub February 19 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater February 23 – San Diego, CA @ Music Box

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Wednesday 4th December, Islington Assembly Hall, London. Yola. So, it’s my last gig of the year and it’s a round forty for 2019. A good effort significantly down on previous years. There have been some great shows this year and the consistency of the quality of gigs has improved over recent years as everyone is upping their games for the valued gig dollar.

Once again, we are here at my favourite mid-sized venue blessed with the best toilets, great sound, good sight lines and it’s never over sold. The downsides are it seems to emphasise the noise of those ignorant people who insist on talking at the bar during a set. But with the prices they charge for alcohol its cheaper to talk than drink there.

Its fair to say that 2019 has been a breakthrough year for Yola ending it with four Grammy nominations. Seemingly spending most of this year over in the US of A she is back over here for some homecoming end of year shows.

Signs are not good when there is water and Lucozade on a table and then the manager brings a cup of tea on stage. So, it proves as Yola is currently suffering with Bronchitis. Her voice is soft and raspy at the start of the show especially at the low end and there is an obvious restraint certainly to begin with.

Yola has a really interesting back story full of anguish, depression and fire and if you want to know more listen to a great podcast from Chris Shifflett with her. She regales the story of her catching fire and its as probably at this point with ‘Walk through Fire’ the title track of her ‘debut’ album that the shackles start to be loosened on that powerful voice.

The set is largely the same set as when I saw her in May at the 100 Club with the majority if not all the album being played along with some selected covers including an excellent upbeat version of the Birds of Chicago track ‘Never Go Back’.

I have tried really hard to like the album, but I find it a little safe and over produced and certainly doesn’t reach the heights of Yola’s previous band Phantom Limb’s ‘The Pines’. What sets Yola apart though is that voice, it’s such a strong unique instrument and it needs to be in tip top shape to take the listener to the next level. There were moments of this tonight, but it was like a well-oiled engine tonight with one cylinder occasionally misfiring.

It may sound harsh but when Yola herself sets the bar so high being slightly off makes a huge difference. A pleasant enough show with some great moments but it will not live long in the memory.

Till the next time keep on country soul rockin y’all.

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Wednesday 29th May, 100 Club, London, Yola Carter.

Ms Carter has reinvented herself recently dropping the Carter with a newly produced album by Dan Auerbach. It’s a highly polished affair and obviously designed to break the American market. It’s a little over produced for me and a lot of the songs just wash over you and I think that this works against Yola’s stunning vocal talent. It’s a unique voice evoking ‘in Memphis’ era Dusty along with a bite or two from other greats of soul and country. I can’t put my finger on it, whether this is the quality of songs or the shift to a more soulful approach but it doesn’t move me. I do think that the slight move away from the country tinge of her EP has taken a little of her character out of the music.

The same criticism is true for tonight. Backed by a tidy six piece backing band it all feels very safe. The set tonight airbrushes nearly everything that she has done before save one track from her EP or previous band Phantom Limb. Whilst the opening forty minutes was pleasing enough it wasn’t really until ‘It Aint Easier’ that she really lets loose and that amazing voice sends shudders through the room. This is quickly followed by a great cover of Birds of Chicago’s ‘Never Go Back’ and the album’s standout track ‘Faraway Look’. The momentum carries through to the encore of ‘Spanish Harlem’, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ and ‘The Letter’.

So, like the football last night it was a game of two halves with an uninspiring 45 minutes of nice enough music followed by an immaculate display from a unique talent to win the day.

Till the next time keep on rockin y’all

Monday 19th December. The Borderline. Yola Carter. In one of the last gigs at The Borderline before its refurb in the new year it’s the fabulous Yola Carter once of Phantom Limb now solo cutting a new path in the country soul scene. Hitting a lot of the ‘one to watch’ lists for 2017 we jump on board at the first stop.

It’s refreshing to see the artist hit the stage at the allotted time and despite her nursing a cold we are overwhelmed by the force of that voice from song one. Self-medicating on water and beer, if she’s not at 100% it’s not showing tonight.

She hops, skips and jumps through her only recorded release to date the EP ‘Orphan Offering’ joined on stage variously by her backing band and guest vocalists Danni Nichols and Emily Barker. Highlights for me are the excellent ‘Fly Away’ and the new song about her mother’s death ‘Free to Roam’.

After the usual charade of leaving the stage before the encore, Carter reappears with the excellent Emily Barker for a great version of the Band’s ‘The Weight’.  I am not familiar with Barker but her higher range perfectly complements Carter and I would have welcomed a lot more of them together.

It’s a small but enthusiastic crowd and I’m sure that once the word gets out the crowd and the venues will get bigger. Carter is such a talent and her voice in the lower range grabs you from your toes and envelopes your whole body as she goes through her vocal gears. If this is what it is like with a cold then stand well back when she unleashes the full force of that voice when fully fit.

It’s been a hellava ride this year with this being my 52nd gig (many thanks to the most understanding wife in the world) and considering what has happened in the world in the past twelve months it’s a fine way to send off 2016. This year has only cemented my passion for live music and 2017 is already shaping up nicely.

One final word for The Borderline and its makeover. Don't change too much, lose the velvet curtain so we can see the iconic sign on the wall again and please, please make the men’s toilets bigger and drier!

Keep on rocking into 2017 y’all.

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Yola Announces 2022 Headlining Tour

Channeling the title of her sophomore LP Stand For Myself , Yola will lead her own headlining tour in Spring 2022.

“Considering how much fun we’ve had playing Stand For Myself live on these returning summer shows, I cannot wait to get out on the road in February and see all of your beautiful faces as we play songs from this record and more,” the English-born singer explained via press release.

As has been her M.O. the past few years, Yola made yet another splash at Newport Folk this past year, entertaining the scaled-down Folk On event by appearing alongside the legendary Chaka Khan .

After a string of arena shows with Chris Stapleton – and a stop at Brandi Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend – Yola will perform from February to May 2022, with headlining gigs at big-name venues like the Ryman Auditorium, The Boulder Theatre and The Fillmore.

For tickets and more info visit Yola’s official website.

As for COVID-19, organizers note, “The health and safety of Yola, her band, her crew, and her fans is of the utmost importance to us all. We are aware that safety precautions and best practices concerning COVID-19 are constantly changing and as a team we will continue to monitor the situation. Fans should be prepared that best practices for the show they want to attend may include providing proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, as well as following industry, local or national guidance surrounding the wearing of masks. We all want to get back on the road, but we want to do that safely and in a way that ensures sustainability for our industry.”

Check out Yola’s 2021 and 2022 touring dates below:

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2021 Aug 21 – Globe Life Park – Arlington, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Aug 22 – Outlaw Music Festival – Austin360 Amphitheater Sep 3 – Summerfest Sep 5 – Jazz Aspen Snowmass Sep 10 – Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival Sep 11 – Moon River Festival Sep 12 – Sing Out Loud Festival Sep 16 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – Maryland Height, MO – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 17 – Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – Birmingham, AL – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 18 – The Wharf Amphitheatre – Orange Beach, AL – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 25 – Ruoff Music Center. Noblesville, IN – w/ Chris Stapleton Sep 26 – Ohana Music Festival Oct 7 – Harvester Performance Center – Rocky Mount, VA Oct 8 – Madison Square Garden – NYC, NY – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 14  – Mizzou Arena – Columbia, MO – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 15 – Pinnacle Bank Arena – Lincoln, NE – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 16 – Denny Sanford Premier Center – Sioux Falls, SD – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 21 – Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 22 & 23 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 28 – United Supermarket Arena – Lubbock, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 29 – Isleta Amphitheater – Albuquerque, NM – w/ Chris Stapleton Oct 30 – AK-Chin Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 4  – Frank Erwin Center – Austin, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 5 – BOK Center – Tulsa, OK – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 6 – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – The Woodlands, TX – w/ Chris Stapleton Nov 28 – Bristol, Eng – Rough Trade Dec 3 – FedEx Forum – Memphis, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton Dec 4 – Mississippi Coast Coliseum – Biloxi, MS – w/ Chris Stapleton

Dec 5 – Thompson-Boling Arena – Knoxville, TN – w/ Chris Stapleton   2022 Feb 1-5 – Girls Just Wanna Weekend Feb 8 – Big Night Live – Boston, MA* Feb 11 – Lincoln Theatre – Washington D.C* Feb 13 – Jefferson Theatre – Charlottesville, VA* Feb 15 – Philadelphia, PA – venue TBA on sale TBA Feb 17 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL* Feb 19 – Hoyt Sherman Place – Des Moines, IA* Feb 23 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN* Mar 3 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Allison Russell Mar 4 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – w/ Devon Gilfillian Mar 11 – Saint Andrew’s Hall – Detroit, MI Mar 13 – The National – Richmond, VA* Mar 15 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC* Mar 16 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC* Mar 18 – Charleston Music Hall – Charleston, SC* Mar 19 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA* Mar 20 – Saturn – Birmingham, AL* Mar 22 – Little Rock, AR – venue TBA on sale TBA Mar 23 – The Joy Theater – New Orleans, LA* Mar 25 – Studio at the Factory – Dallas, TX*+ Mar 26 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX*+ Mar 27 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX*+ Mar 29 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO* Mar 30 – The Jones Assembly – Oklahoma City, OK* April 1 – Belly Up Aspen – Aspen, CO* April 2 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO* April 3 – Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO* Apr 5 – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT* Apr 6 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID* Apr 7 – The ELM – Bozeman, MT* Apr 9 – The Wilma – Missoula, MT* Apr 10 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA* Apr 11 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR* Apr 14 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA* Apr 15 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA* April 20 – Huntington Center. Toledo, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 21 – Schottenstein Center. Columbus, OH – w/ Chris Stapleton April 23 – A Concert for Kentucky – Kroger Field. Lexington, KY – w/ Chris Stapleton Apr 27 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV May 1 – Stagecoach Festival   *Jac Ross opening +Jac Ross and Nick Connors

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Yola is gifting fans in earnest.

Because the Soul-filled songbird has announced a brand new EP and hatched US tour dates too.

Full story below…

The GRAMMY-nominated star, who earned praise aplenty for her performance in 2022’s ‘Elvis’ –  revealed that her project ‘My Love’ will be landing on May 24.

Anchored by the sounds that have inspired her, the eclectic EP will be preceded by lead single ‘Future Enemies’ – due February 9.

The singer will be taking to stages across the US ahead of its release in what is being billed as an intimate tour.

Speaking on the EP and its accompanying trek, Yola said:

“Welcome to my new era: a utopia of Black creativity, freedom and power. I cannot wait for fans to hear my new music – written and conceived in rooms of diversity – inspired by music I’ve long loved from Janet Jackson to Anderson .Paak to Mary J. Blige. I’m taking these new songs on the road to play for fans to hear it first in intimate venues– true fans know I’ve always been genre-fluid, experimenting and reworking my catalogue through live performance to encompass my love of soul, R&B, electronica and beyond. If you’ve seen the shows you already know where this is heading. This new music is the culmination of that work. This project is also born of my desire to surround myself with creatives of color, to express myself on every level of making this music, and finally, to do this all my way.” googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('primis_TGJ_1x1_Desk'); if (pubwise.enabled === true) { pwpbjs.que.push(function () { pwRegisterLazyLoad(gptadslots['primis_TGJ_1x1_Desk'], 2, [250,0,250,0], 0, 768, 2); }); }else{ googletag.pubads().refresh([gptadslots['primis_TGJ_1x1_Desk']]); } });

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“It’s a paradigm shift.”

And as simply as that, Yola encapsulates the giddy expansiveness, stunning emotional breadth, and exponential musical growth of her sophomore album  Stand For Myself , out July 30. She may only be saying four words, but it’s a whole new world.

Everything about the album—musically, lyrically, spiritually—explores the epiphany that making decisive choices leads to freedom. If her critically acclaimed 2019 debut  Walk Through Fire  was an exhilarating exercise in country soul,  Stand For Myself  explores the concept of genre. The album features a fluidity of sound that defies categorization weaving elements of symphonic soul, mellifluous pop melodies, disco grooves, rootsy rawness, and ecstatic gospel power into a package with instant appeal.

For those who fell in love with the singular British artist on  Walk Through Fire —and the love affair was fierce with both critics and the Recording Academy which recognized Yola with four Grammy nominations— listening to  Stand For Myself  is like stepping out of Kansas into Oz. Home may have been cozy and full of great songs, but it’s time to take the Yola ride in full Technicolor. And there’s no place like  Stand For Myself. 

“The album is like a window into my mind, my life experiences, my politics, my hopeful and sentimental sides, and my hope for humanity at large,” she says of the 12-track collection that covers a wide swath of ground in its 45 minute-plus running time. At her most melodically and lyrically free, it is an album of both artistic freedom and subtle social commentary, that Yola hopes will connect personally with anyone who has experienced being made to feel “other.”

Yola makes exciting new vocal choices on  Stand For Myself . While her gale force power remains undiminished, she probes the layers of her instrument. “So often people come out all guns blazing and they don’t navigate nuance,” she says of her purposeful vocal approach. “I thought,  do you know what? Instead of punching out of the gate with absolutely everything I have, I’m going to really try and navigate nuance. ”

The results show themselves in glorious fashion as she pushes herself to both higher and lower registers, modulates her attack with laser-like precision and generally explores new textures on songs like the transporting title track, the addictive “If I Had To Do It All Again” and the slow-burning “Great Divide” which deftly balances grit and light.

Lyrically, she explores the difference between surviving and thriving (the languid R&B soul-searcher “Barely Alive”); inventively imagines new outcomes grappling with mortality (the inventive “Break The Bough”); frolics in the intersection of sentimentality and sexuality (the deeply sensual “Starlight”); recognizes the value of allyship (“Be My Friend” featuring vocal contributions from Brandi Carlile); and takes control of her own destiny on the anthemic title track. In examining and embracing the various elements of her identity: black, female, empathic, creative, erotic, bawdy, sophisticated, curious, intelligent, and more, Yola takes listeners on a journey to self-actualization that they might not even realize they’ve been on until the album ends.

“That’s it,” she says accompanied by one of her deeply infectious laughs. “I want to trick people into empathy and self-actualization!”

On the title track, she urges the listener to stand for themselves and those around them by challenging biases that fuel bigotry, inequality and tokenism which have deeply impacted her personal life and professional career. “It is about how people continue to bury their heads in the sand to hide from inconvenient truths that create a profound need to change how they think,” she says.

Her own journey to  Stand For Myself  was a somewhat circuitous route, for which, in hindsight, Yola could not be more grateful.

As the anniversary of her debut album approached in February 2020, the artist was intended to embark on opening dates in arenas and stadiums with Chris Stapleton, headline and festival gigs, and a journey to Australia to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis biopic starring Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker and Austin Butler as Elvis. Second album recording was to happen sometime in and around all of that. She got in one show with Stapleton before COVID-19 derailed those plans and headed home with an eerie sense of the unknown looming in front of her.

Finding herself in lockdown back in Nashville allowed Yola to have something she hadn’t experienced in a year, time.

“I wasn’t seeing anybody and I was just staying up until five o’clock in the morning until my brain was really fuzzy and hazy and then ideas would just jump out,” she says. “I studied my creative process to the point where I knew what kind of state my brain needed to be in to generate ideas and knew what time of day my ideas turn up and so the whole process was ‘Okay, I’m going to start writing some things now explicitly for this record.’”

Over the course of some weeks she brought her early morning visions to life, alongside song ideas she had been germinating for the last decade. Pandemic-penned ideas were developed with Joy Oladokun, Ruby Amanfu, fellow Highwoman Natalie Hemby, Bobby Wood, Pat McLaughlin, and more. She headed back into the studio for a week in October 2020 with  Walk Through Fire  producer Dan Auerbach and a fresh band of collaborators including Dap-King bassist Nick Movshon (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse), drummer Aaron Frazer, who plays with Durand Jones and the Indications and is an emerging artist in his own right, and in-demand session percussionist Sam Bacco (Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash), among others.

The pair got the work done quickly thanks to Yola’s own prodigious studio work, her new sense of purpose and the ability to work with a creative partner who understood her in a new way. “ Walk Through Fire  was a collaboration, in the truest sense of the word,” she says of the album that grew out of her personal story of literally and figuratively surviving harrowing experiences that spawned fan favorites like the title track and “Faraway Look.” “It was a getting-to-know-you record.” She says, “Dan and I talked about the music that we had in common, and then we found that middle ground.”

After a year of touring, learning, writing, and introspection Yola was able to record  Stand For Myself  as the person she has known herself to be for years because what wasn’t new about the album was her innate sense of self. She wanted to show her vulnerability, her hope, her intricacies, and to ultimately uncover all of those things for the listener.

“I want people to feel like they know a dark-skinned black woman, a little better,” she says. “I could be the first, and all with an English accent and a chocolate bar skin tone. I will be an example of nuance that one can reference that someone might not have had, because the media does not want to portray us in a way that is nuanced.”

If, she says, the first record was about introducing a person who, at a low point, recognized the need to ask for help, this second one illuminates that “I’ve been proven through this fire and I’m back to where I started, the real me. I kind of got talked out of being me and now I’m here. This is who I’ve always been in music and in life. There was a little hiatus where I got brainwashed out of my own majesty, but a bitch is back.”

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