Feb 24, Wednesday
Alderney Landing Convention Center, Halifax
Feb 25th Thursday
The BREEZEWAY, St John’s
Feb 26th, Friday
The Flyer Club, Gander
Feb 27th, Saturday
The Pepsi Centre, Corner Brook
CP Records *Maritime Tour* goes this weekend Feb 24-27
iLL Kidz x CP Records x Core Dj’s
Grammy nominated Canadian Toronto Rapper Drake has announced his first ever North American solo tour with the launch of “The Away From Home Tour.”
Drake will hit the road for 25 dates with fellow Canadian rapper K-Os and New York City based synth-pop band, Francis & The Lights.
The 25-date tour will kick off on April 5 at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois and will wind down May 8 in Plymouth, New Hampshire at a private location.
Drake has teamed with Reverb, a non-profit environmental organization, to make the tour eco-friendly , by “greening” the tour using biodiesel fuel in his tour bus, in addition to using biodegradable and recycled products on his tour bus and backstage.
Drake will play a variety of festivals on the tour, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and The Bamboozle festival.
The tour is Drake’s first official tour since wrapping up the Lil Wayne
headlined, Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival Tour dates are listed below:
Date City/State Venue
4/06/2010 Charleston, IL Eastern Illinois University
4/07/2010 Columbus, OH Private Location
4/09/2010 State College, PA Penn State University
4/10/2010 Boston, MA Private Location
4/11/2010 Lock Haven, PA Private Location
4/14/2010 East Lansing, MI Michigan State University
4/15/2010 Rochester Hills, MI Oakland University
4/16//2010 Morgantown, WV West Virginia University
4/21/2010 Orlando, FL University Central Florida
4/22/2010 Greenville, SC Furman University
4/23/2010 TBA
4/24/2010 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
4/26/2010 Kansas City, MO University of Missouri – Kansas City
4/27/2010 Lexington, KY University of Kentucky
4/29/2010 Lowell, MA University Mass Lowell
4/30/2010 Syracuse, NY Private Location
5/01/2010 Boston, MA Private Location
5/01/2010 East Rutherford, NJ Bamboozle Festival
5/04/2010 Worcester, MA Holy Cross
5/05/2010 Towson, MD Towson University
5/06/2010 Cheney, PA Cheyney University
5/07/2010 Ithaca, NY Private Location
5/08/2010 Plymouth, NH Private Location
Hip-Hop artist Raekwon of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan has just announced his first ever solo Australian tour. The tour comes shortly after the release of his September 2009 album, “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. II”, which is a sequel to his solo 1995 debut album.
The rapper will be hitting up Australia solo for the first time and is expected to be giving fans a dose of some of his Wu-Tang classic hits as well as some of his fresher tunes.
Raekwon will be stopping at The Prince in Melbourne on Thursday, March 11, and then will be making his away around to a number of other locations which include Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and then Brisbane.
In addition to his hip hop concerts in Australia, the rapper will also be stopping in New Zealand on March 20th at The Powerstation in Auckland.
Raekwon Australian Mini Hip Hop Tour Dates/Concerts:
Thurs March 11, 2010 – The Prince, Melbourne
Fri March 12, 2010 – The Metro, Sydney
Sat March 13, 2010 – Villa, Perth
Thurs March 18, 2010 – HQ, Adelaide
Fri March 19, 2010 – Step Inn, Brisbane
First he lands two songs in the top five of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this week (”I Invented Sex” at No. 2 and “Say Aah” at No. 3). Now, R&B crooner Trey Songz has been added to Jay-Z’s “Blueprint 3″ tour, according to an Atlantic Records representative.
Joining Young Jeezy
, who is also a supporting act, Songz will open the second leg of the stateside trek starting Feb. 20 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Songz is scheduled to perform all 23 dates, wrapping up March 27 at the Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas.
Songz is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his latest set, “Ready”; the album has sold 438,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
JAY-Z BP3 TOUR 2010
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Feb 20 Sunrise, FL Bank Atlantic Center
Feb 22 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Feb 23 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Feb 25 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
Feb 27 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Feb 28 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Mar 02 New York, NY Madison Square Garden*
Mar 03 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Mar 05 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
Mar 06 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Mar 07 Norfolk, VA Scope Arena
Mar 11 Boston, MA TD Garden
Mar 12 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
Mar 14 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Mar 16 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
Mar 18 Chicago, IL United Center
Mar 19 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Mar 20 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
Mar 22 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Mar 24 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
Mar 26 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
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