The music and legacy of the late Robbie Robertson, the principal songwriter for pioneering Canadian-American rock outfit The Band, will be celebrated at an all-star tribute show at Los Angeles, CA’s Kia Forum on October 17th, 2024. The loaded blowout, billed as Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson, will feature performances by a long list of notable artists.
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The event, organized by executive producers Martin Scorsese, Jared Levine, Keith Wortman, and Scooter Weintrob and presented by Blackbird Presents, Live Nation, Citi, and Woodland Cultural Centre, is due to feature performances by 20+ artists from across the stylistic spectrum including (in alphabetical order) Trey Anastasio (Phish), Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell (The Heartbreakers), Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule), Bruce Hornsby, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Mavis Staples, Benmont Tench (The Heartbreakers), Don Was, Bobby Weir, Lucinda Williams, and more.
Pre-sale tickets for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Thursday, October 17th will be available starting on Wednesday, July 31st, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. PST using the pre-sale code “ROBBIE”. For complete pre-sale details, head here. Remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, August 2nd at 10:00 a.m. PST. Head here for complete ticketing details.
Robbie Robertson passed away in August 2023 following a long period of illness. He was 80 years old. His work with The Band in the 1960s and 1970s has been celebrated as some of the most beloved material in the American music canon.
“I wanted to write music that felt like it could’ve been written 50 years ago, tomorrow, yesterday — that had this lost-in-time quality,” Robertson said in a 1995 interview for the public television series Shakespeare in the Alley. Read our full obituary for Robertson here.
View the full lineup for the Robbie Robertson tribute show at the Kia Forum below.
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