{"id":31806,"date":"2020-10-09T06:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31806"},"modified":"2020-10-19T01:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:43:25","slug":"eric-clapton-adds-to-2021-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/eric-clapton-adds-to-2021-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton Adds Dates to 2021 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Clapton - Cocaine (Slowhand At 70 Live At The Royal Albert Hall)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-YOTJoKz_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/eric-clapton-tickets\">Eric Clapton<\/a> has announced a brief residency at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall. The three dates there are his only U.K. dates of 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The concerts are the first he\u2019s announced since he rescheduled his 2020 tour to 2021 last March 24\u00a0 due to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cthe advice of global healthcare agencies and local government instructions.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The European tour, originally revealed in 2019, was to start on May 29, 2020, and continue through June. However, it will now take place almost exactly one year later in Spring 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the 2020 tour was moved to 2021 on March 24, Clapton\u2019s Facebook page noted:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe health and safety of our band, crew, venue staff and fans are our top priority.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All of the venues remain the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the original 2020 dates were revealed, it was expected that Clapton would once again be joined by the musicians Nathan East (bass), Paul Carrack (keyboards), Chris Stainton (Keyboards), Doyle Bramhall II (guitar), and the backing vocalists Sharon White and Katie Kissoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The upcoming tour will be Clapton\u2019s first such run in some time. In recent years, the classic rock legend, who turned 75 on March 30, has avoided a lengthy run of dates, preferring to do a handful at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At many of those shows, he\u2019s toured with such fellow blues-rock guitarists as Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Clark, Jr., who each do their own brief sets. Clapton and his band then perform perhaps 15 songs including such career-spanning favorites as \u201cLayla,\u201d \u201cI Shot the Sheriff,\u201d \u201cTears in Heaven\u201d and \u201cKey to the Highway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The legendary guitarist has surpassed an unfathomable 200 Hall performances, marked 50 years of music, and celebrated his 70th birthday there in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ticket info can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/eric-clapton-tickets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Eric Clapton 2021 Tour<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show Date and Time: May 14 \u2013 June 23, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show Location: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK \u2013 Crocus Hall, Moscow, Russia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Clapton has announced a brief residency at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall. The three dates there are his only U.K. dates of 2021.\u00a0 The concerts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31806\/revisions\/31813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}