Heart Returns to Canada in 2013!
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 at 10:00am
*Tickets for Thunder
Bay on sale at 9:30am
Tickets for Penticton
on sale at 1:00pm
TICKETS FOR MONTREAL ON SALE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 at
12:00pm
Vancouver,
BC ~ Paul Mercs
Concerts is honoured to present the following Canadian dates for Heart’s 2013 “Fanatic”
tour:
*March 9 Penticton,
BC South
Okanagan Events Centre
March 10 Calgary, AB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
March 11 Edmonton,
AB Northern
Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
March 13 Regina,
SK Conexus
Arts Centre
March 14 Saskatoon,
SK TCU Place – Sid
Buckwold Theatre
March 15 Brandon,
MB Westman Place
at the Keystone Centre
March 17 Winnipeg,
MB Centennial
Concert Hall
*March 18 Thunder
Bay, ON Thunder Bay
Community Auditorium
March 20 London,
ON The RBC
Theatre at Budweiser Gardens
March 21 Toronto,
ON Massey Hall
(Canadian Music Fest)
March 22 Toronto,
ON CMW
March 24 Ottawa,
ON National
Arts Centre
*March 25 Montreal,
QC Bell Centre
In addition to the tour dates, Ann and Nancy
Wilson will make an appearance at Canadian Music Week on March 22, 2013 for a
special in-depth interview and intimate acoustic performance: “Heart, Soul and
Rock & Roll: Celebrity Interview with Ann and Nancy Wilson”.
California born, Seattle bred sisters Nancy
and Ann Wilson are behind some of rock’s most iconic hits from the wild call of
“Barracuda” to the epic lilt of “Magic Man” to the deranged shriek of “Crazy On
You.” Nancy’s guitar and Ann’s wail are
practically part of the national archive, indelible elements of American pop
culture. In their nearly fourty years as
a band the Wilson sisters have been lauded as sex symbols, idealized as
feminist icons, and worshiped by critics and fans alike, selling over 35
million albums worldwide and thrilling audiences with their raucous live show.
In 2010 the band returned to the Billboard
Top 10 with the release of Red
Velvet Car and a Top 5 DVD Night
at Sky Church. The subsequent tour,
which was incredibly successful in Canada, reinvigorated the sisters’ taste for
live performance and life on the road, but as they looked forward to recording
another record, something seemed to be in the way: their past.
For years, friends and colleagues had been
asking the sisters to do a book about Heart and it just didn’t feel right. “They always came to us with a real lascivious
tabloid-y type idea,” Ann says. “You
know - think of the ugliness and the dirtiness – but that’s so one dimensional. We’ve had moments of failure and
vulnerability and humiliation, sure, but ours is also the story of women who
are being told there are rules to follow and just won’t do it.”
In the wake of the success of Red Velvet Car it felt like it was
finally time to tell the true story of Heart’s past as a means of embracing
Heart’s future. So the sisters decided
to collaborate with veteran music journalist and Seattle rock scene expert
Charles R. Cross, who also wrote the definitive Nirvana biography, Heavier Than Heaven as well as Roomful of Mirrors, a biography of Jimi
Hendrix. “We figured if anyone can get
the true rock and roll story of it all it’s going to be him,” Ann says. Heart’s first ever biography, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul
and Rock and Roll, is in stores now. The Wilson sisters had fully exorcized the
past and now it was time to think about the future.
October 2 will also mark the release of a
brand new studio album for the sisters of rock, titled Fanatic.
“We did it every possible way,” Nancy
remembers. “We had many nights together
on the tour bus. Then, when I was in LA
and Ann was in Seattle, we were each emailing each other lyrics ideas and
(producer) Ben Mink groove ideas.”
The threesome eventually congregated in the
sisters’ hometown outside of Seattle and had a series of what Nancy calls
songwriting “pow wows.” When it came
time to record, the band’s approach was organic, very much in keeping with
their roots as a true performance-oriented rock band. “These days things are formulated digitally
or layered or looped and assembled but this is live groove,” Nancy
explains. “It was our mission to go in there and capture the
energy as it magically happens without too much over-thinking or repetition,
just letting it escape.”
Honouring your past while believing in the
beauty and power of what’s to come has always been central to Heart’s ethos -
it’s reflected in the brashness and defiant emotion of their signature
sound. No one should be surprised that
at this point in their career, the desire to make emotional, rebellious music
has only intensified.
“When you’re at our experience level, you
know what you want and you go for it,” Nancy says. “You’re not going to test it out for five or
ten years, you’re going to get in the car and drive.”
Tickets for the Penticton show are available
online at www.valleyfirsttix.com,
by phone at 1.877.763.2849, or in person at the South Okanagan Events Centre
Box Office and the Wine Country Visitor Centre.
Tickets for the Calgary show are available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, by phone at 1.855.985.5000, or in person at all Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets for the Edmonton show are available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, by phone at 1.855.985.5000, or in person at all Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets for the Regina show are available online at www.conexusartscentre.ca, by phone at 306.525.9999 or 1.800.667.8497, or in person at the Conexus Arts Centre Box Office.
Tickets for the Saskatoon show are available online at www.tcutickets.ca, by phone at 975-7799 or 1.888.639.7770, or in person at the TCU Place Box Office.
Tickets for the Brandon show are available
online at www.tickets.keystonecentre.com,
by phone at 204.726.3555, or in person at the Box Office.
Tickets for the Winnipeg show are available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, by phone at 1.855.985.5000, or in person at all Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets for the Thunder Bay show are available online at www.tickets.tbca.com, by phone at 1.807.684.4444, or in person at the Box Office.
Tickets for the London show are available online at www.budweisergardens.com/events, by phone at 1.866.455.2849, or in person at the Box Office or Ticket Outlets.
Tickets for the Toronto show are available online at www.masseyhall.com, by phone at 416.872.4255, or in person at the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office (60 Simcoe Street).
Tickets for the Ottawa show are available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, by phone at 1.855.985.5000, or in person at all Ticketmaster outlets and the NAC Box Office.
Tickets for the Montreal show are available online at www.evenko.ca, by phone at 514.790.2525 or 1.877.668.8269, or in person at the Bell Centre Box Office.
For more information on Heart, please visit www.heart-music.com.