By Stevie Connor.
4X Grammy nominee Jewel, and 2X Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge, announce a two-part co-headlining tour. The first leg of the 19-city North American tour will kick off on Thursday, July 11 in Bonner, MT and will conclude on Wednesday, August 7 in La Vista, NE. The second leg will begin in Cary, NC on Tuesday, September 17 and wrap in Rogers, AR on Saturday, October 5. The tour will include stops in both the US and Canada, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Windsor, Charlotte, and Austin, TX. Ssee full routing below - more dates to be announced soon.
Jewel will perform music from her latest studio album, Freewheelin' Woman, as well as fan favourites from her extensive back catalog, including her Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum debut album, Pieces of You, and her multi-platinum follow up Spirit, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a deluxe reissue on Craft Recordings.
Throughout Jewel’s three-decade-long career, she has sold over 30 million albums. She has also devoted over twenty years of her career to pioneering change in the mental health space, aiming to provide tools and resources to those in need.
In December, she launched her second annual NotAloneChallenge to remind people they are not alone during the holidays and provide accessible mental health tools. The inaugural challenge raised over $1.5M for Jewel's nonprofit, Inspiring Children Foundation, which provides educational and mental health tools for underprivileged youth. The second challenge recently wrapped and raised over $2M. Jewel also serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Innerworld, an innovative virtual mental health platform that recently received a $2M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Innerworld provides around the clock access to anonymous peer-to-peer support led by guides trained in Cognitive Behavioral Immersion (CBI), a form of psychological intervention that has been demonstrated to be effective for depression, anxiety, and substance use disorder.
JEWEL + MELISSA ETHERIDGE CO-HEADLINE TOUR DATES
7/11 - Bonner, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater
7/17 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
7/23 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
7/24 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl Theater
7/26 - Los Angeles, CA - YouTube Theater
7/31 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
8/1 - Waite Park, MN - The Ledge Amphitheater
8/3 - Huber Heights, OH - Rose Music Center at The Heights
8/4 - Windsor, ON - The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
8/7 - La Vista, NE - The Astro Amphitheater
9/17 - Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheatre
9/21 - Charlotte, NC - Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
9/24 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
9/26 - Clearwater, FL - The Sound
9/27 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre
10/1 - Austin, TX - Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
10/3 - Norman, OK - Riverwind Casino - Showplace Theatre*
10/4 - Thackerville, OK - Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort
10/5 - Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP (Arkansas Music Pavilion)
*On-sale date TBD
Jewel went from a girl who grew up with no running water on an Alaskan homestead, to a homeless teenager in San Diego, to an award winning, multi-platinum recording artist who released one of the best-selling debuts of all time. Throughout her three-decade-long career Jewel has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and has earned 26 nominations for such awards as the GRAMMYs, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and Country Music Association Awards. Jewel has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, has performed on Saturday Night Live, at the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals, for the Pope and the President of the United States. Her music has spanned a wide-range of genres with top hits in Folk, Pop, Club, Country, Standards, Children's and Holiday music. She has released 13 studio albums, including her latest release Freehwheelin’ Woman.
In addition to her work in music, Jewel is also an accomplished author, having published five books, including her 2015 New York Times best-selling memoir, Never Broken. Jewel has also dedicated herself to pioneering change in the mental health space, offering mental health tools and resources to those who need it through her Inspiring Children Foundation and Innerworld, a new virtual mental health platform.
Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which led to an appearance on the 1989 Grammy Awards show. For several years, her popularity grew around such memorable originals as "Bring Me Some Water," "No Souvenirs" and "Ain't It Heavy," for which she won a Grammy® in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993). The collection featured the massive hits, "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy® Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995, Etheridge issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which was distinguished by the hit single, "I Want to Come Over."
Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996. Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, Etheridge has remained one of America’s favorite female singer-songwriters for more than two decades. Since her notable rise to fame, Melissa has continued to release several critically acclaimed recordings including, This Is M.E., Memphis Rock & Soul, and The Medicine Show. On September 17, 2021, Melissa released her most recent studio project, titled One Way Out. The 9-track album features a collection of songs Etheridge wrote in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s that never made the cut….until now!
October 2022 saw Melissa’s return to the theatre with her one woman show, My Window – A Journey Through Life. The critically acclaimed, sold-out run premiered at New World Stages on October 13, 2022. In September of 2023, Melissa fulfilled a life-long dream of hers, debuting My Window as a 3-month headlining engagement at Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway. On September 5, 2023, Etheridge also released her memoir Talking to My Angels (HarperCollins), which debuted at #9 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
For more information and tickets, visit https://jeweljk.com/tour.
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