Acclaimed R&B guitarist, singer, songwriter D’Angelo brings his band The Vanguard to the intimate Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 / 9PM. Tickets are on sale Friday, August 14th / 10AM.
Once in a while, an album arrives just in time to give the people a voice. Amidst a groundswell of tensions and upheavals, D’Angelo and The Vanguard delivered Black Messiah upon unsuspecting, yet receptive masses. It not only broke a 14-year studio silence from the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer, but it also reaffirmed the need for raw, righteous, and real soul. Its impact could immediately be felt when it landed at #1 on the BillboardR&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and #5 on the Top 200.The fans spoke, and the critics did as well. The New York Times, Spin, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Hollywood Reporter, and countless others extolled the album for both its music and message, thus usurping countless “Best of music lists. However, D’Angelo truly connected once he hit the stage again. He made his Saturday Night Live debut with a silky performance of “Really Love” plus a poignant and powerful rendition of “The Charade” from Black Messiah. Hoodie on, guitar in hand, and surrounded by The Vanguard with statements such as “I Can’t Breathe” and “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned upon their t-shirts, D’Angelo left audiences speechless. He and The Vanguard followed up this seminal moment with a completely sold out European tour—entitled The Second Coming—marking his first full jaunt since 2012’s Occupy Music Tour and The Liberation Tour. Quickly thereafter, D’Angelo returned to the US to perform in front of a sold-out audience at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater. Rolling Stone called the Apollo show, “stunning… for more than two hours, he gave a master class in soul,”while Wall Street Journal wrote, “rendering a strain of soul music reminiscent of Sly Stone in the ‘60s, George Clinton in the ‘70s or 1980s Prince, onstage D’Angelo is a dynamo of the James Brownvariety.” The Vanguard features Jesse Johnson (guitar), Isaiah Sharkey (guitar), Pino Palladino(bass), Chris “Daddy” Dave (drums), Cleo “Pookie” Sample (keyboards), and singers Kendra Foster, Charlie “Red” Middleton and Jermain Holmes.
D’Angelo redefines music once more with Black Messiah. though, in some ways, it’s all in the name. Of the title, he explains in the liner notes, “Black Messiah is not one man. It’s a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” That feeling is going to live on for a long time to come, a vanguard for a new generation
General Admission tickets for D’Angelo and the Vanguard Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 / 9PM are $59.50. A limited number of Reserved Seat tickets are also available for $100.50. They go on sale Friday, August 14th / 10AM at LiveNation.com or charge by phone 800-745-3000 and at the Fillmore Box Office during normal business hours (Mon. – Fri., 11AM – 6PM and during show days).
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