Sixty years into her storied career, Elkie Brooks has added a raft of additional new dates to her Long Farewell Tour, including one at Fareham Live on 12 May.
A celebration of her illustrious, award-winning six decades in music, Elkie will be performing some of her biggest hits on this new tour with her incredible live band including Pearl’s A Singer, Lilac Wine, Fool (If You Think It’s Over), No More The Fool and Don’t Cry Out Loud in a remarkable, career-spanning show which touches on blues, rock and jazz. Fans will also be able to hear material from Elkie’s eagerly anticipated forthcoming twenty-first studio album for the very first time at these new UK live dates.
An exceptional performer with an unmistakable voice which has earned her the moniker British Queen Of Blues,’ Elkie Brooks never fails to captivate her audience.
Tickets are on-sale now for twenty newly-added live shows, set to take place in Fareham, Chester, Wolverhampton, Whitley Bay, Blackpool, Kings Lynn, Basingstoke, Peterborough, Cambridge, Birmingham Liverpool, London, Buxton, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Cheltenham, Swansea, Harrogate, Norwich & Nottingham. Elkie has also announced that her sold-out London Cadogan Hall date which was recently postponed due to illness has just been rescheduled to 3 June 2024.
As Elkie said recently: “The pandemic closed the doors to our theatres and music halls. To be back onstage, to sing to people, to see faces, hear applause and to share these spaces is truly humbling.”
Full list of Elkie’s forthcoming UK dates is as follows:
2025
15 February Gateshead – The Glasshouse
21 February Northampton Royal & Derngate
28 February Birmingham Town Hall
2 March Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
7 March Worthing Assembly Hall
16 March Salford Lowry
20 March Southend-on-Sea Cliffs Pavilion
28 March Torquay Princess Theatre
11 April York Barbican
12 May Fareham Live (NEW SHOW)
16 May Chester Storyhouse (NEW SHOW)
27 May Edinburgh Queens Hall
29 May Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
3 June London Cadogan Hall (SOLD OUT – RESCHEDULED DATE)
7 September Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
27 September Whitley Bay Playhouse (NEW SHOW)
5 October Blackpool Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
9 October Kings Lynn Alive Corn Exchange (NEW SHOW)
23 October Basingstoke Anvil (NEW SHOW)
15 November Peterborough New Theatre (NEW SHOW)
23 November Cambridge Corn Exchange (NEW SHOW)
2026
7 February Birmingham Town Hall (NEW SHOW)
15 February Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (NEW SHOW)
21 February London Cadogan Hall (NEW SHOW)
7 March Buxton Opera House (NEW SHOW)
13 March Leicester De Montfort Hall (NEW SHOW)
21 March Shrewsbury Theatre Severn (NEW SHOW)
26 March Cheltenham Town Hall (NEW SHOW)
18 April Swansea Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
23 April Harrogate Royal Hall (NEW SHOW)
25 May Norwich Theatre Royal (NEW SHOW)
28 June Nottingham Theatre Royal (NEW SHOW)
Tickets for Elkie Brooks’ Long Farewell Tour are on-sale now from venues or direct via the official website HERE.
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