A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie Alumni Tour

Event Description

Following a major world tour earlier this year, A BOWIE CELEBRATION is back!! Join key alumni musicians of David Bowie's bands from across the decades for The David Bowie Alumni Tour as they play two of the greatest albums of all time - Diamond Dogs and Ziggy Stardust - in their entirety featuring an unforgettable and critically acclaimed evening of Bowie songs with world-class vocalists. Anchored by Mike Garson, along with a revolving selection of additional amazing Bowie band alumni including Gerry Leonard, Carmine Rojas, Kevin Armstrong and Alan Childs, 2020’s A BOWIE CELEBRATION: The David Bowie Alumni Tour will focus on David Bowie’s fifth album Ziggy
Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Bowie’s eighth studio album Diamond Dogs. Both albums ranked amongst the greatest of all time. Keyboardist and band leader, Mike Garson is the longest-standing member of any of Bowie’s bands, having performed with David at over 1,000 concerts. He brings with him Gerry Leonard who was a Bowie music director and guitar player on tour. Joining them are Let’s Dance/Serious Moonlight/Glass
Spider bassist Carmine Rojas and Alan Childs who was Bowie’s drummer on his 1987 Glass Spider world tour. Kevin Armstrong also joins the David Bowie alumni tour having recorded and played with Bowie on his famous Live Aid performance and Bowie’s first Tin Machine album and tour, amongst other Bowie projects. Between them, the alumni band have over 40 years’ experience of recording, writing and playing live with Bowie. Note that artist lineup may change and some band members will not perform on all dates.