After announcing plans for a New Year’s Eve concert in their hometown of Seattle, Heart has confirmed another show for the waning days of 2023.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group led by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson are now set to visit the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California, on December 28. The event has been billed as “A Special Performance in the Desert.”
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Tickets for the newly announced gig go on sale to the general public this Friday, November 3, at 10 a.m. PT, while presale tickets will be available one day earlier, Thursday, at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets for the event are on sale via StubHub.
As previously reported, Heart’s December 31 concert in Seattle will take place at Pledge Climate Arena and will feature Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening as the opening act. A fireworks display at the city’s famous Space Needle will follow the show.
The December 28 concert will mark Heart’s first live performance in more than four years. The last time that the group played a show was in October 2019, when its Love Alive Tour wrapped up.
Leading up to the Heart concerts, Ann Wilson has a series of upcoming tour dates with her solo group Tripsetter, in support of her recently released studio album, Another Door. The dates span from a November 28 show in Fort Wayne, Indiana, through a December 11 concert in Jacksonville, Florida.
Meanwhile, Ann has posted a special Halloween-themed video on her social media sites featuring her carving a pumpkin as she explains why she loves the holiday, as Cream’s “Strange Brew” plays in the background.
“Halloween’s always been my maybe favorite holiday, just because it’s just one day out of the year when people will be whoever they want to be,” she notes. “You know, somebody who cuts the grass can mix and mingle with the boss because people look like someone else. There are no rules … they can all hang out together. That was why I used to love Halloween so much, throw big parties, and just go all out. I like how into it the culture is. It’s fun and whimsical.”
As the video winds down, Wilson reveals, “This will be the third year in a row we’ve had a pumpkin. And I get to hollow it out and make a face, and kind of open up a mini Halloween portal.”
Wilson also has posted a new video on her YouTube channel in which she discusses “Ruler of the Night,” one of the tracks from Another Door. In the clip, she explains that the song tells the story of a nerd who opens up their closet door and sees a garment that “when you put it on, it just transforms you into somebody else.”
“The song grows really fast from the nerd opening up the closet door and putting on the jacket to stepping outside the front door and being on the red carpet and the crowd roaring,” she continues. “And who’s in charge here? The ruler of the night! It’s kind of a funny, almost cinematic little story.”
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