RICHARD ASHCROFT ANNOUNCES SPRING 2017 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

RICHARD ASHCROFT ANNOUNCES SPRING 2017 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR   Run Kicks Off March 27 At NYC's Terminal 5 And Includes April 3 Show At The Wiltern In Los Angeles   Tickets Go On Sale This Friday, December 16   Ashcroft Is Touring In Support Of His New Album, These People   "A Legend Returns" - NME

Richard Ashcroft   Photo Credit: Kate Radley     Acclaimed U.K. artist Richard Ashcroft will kick off his first North American tour in six years on March 27 with a show at Terminal 5 in New York City. Ashcroft will perform with his five-piece band on the run, which will include concerts at the House of Blues in Chicago (March 30) and The Wiltern in Los Angeles (April 3). Tickets will go on sale this Friday, December 16. See below for itinerary and on-sale times.   Ashcroft - who has been honored with two BRIT awards, an Ivor Novello Award and a GRAMMY® nomination for The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" - is touring in support of his new album, These People. Released in the U.S. by Harvest Records, the album is available HERE.

"A Legend Returns," proclaimed NME in a cover story on Ashcroft, which hailedThese People as "brilliant...a slice of classic Verve song craft with modernist electronic touches." Pitchfork noted, "Ashcroft still possesses one of rock's great voices, his singular balance of grit and gravitas undisturbed by the passage of time." In a review of an intimate show at The Roundhouse in London, The Telegraph observed, "[With] This Is How It Feels, you remembered what made The Verve and Ashcroft special...Their songs were like rubies in the rubble: at their best, they sparkled."   Watch Ashcroft perform many of the songs from These People in this series of self-directed performance videos:   View "Out Of My Body" - https://youtu.be/e20s64jEn50 View "They Don't Own Me" - https://youtu.be/1hV2up62i1I View "This Is How It Feels" - https://youtu.be/36V2FjRSHQc View "Hold On" - https://youtu.be/YMjgA_EslBY View "These People" - https://youtu.be/xZ-I3ZlR1to     Richard Ashcroft - North American Tour Dates   Date    City/State/Province  Venue                         On Sale Time                       Ticket Link   3/27     New York, NY                         Terminal 5                   12/16, 12 PM ET       http://bit.ly/2gP8w4W 3/29     Boston, MA                 House of Blues             12/16, 12 PM ET       http://bit.ly/2g2GiQk 3/30     Chicago, IL                  House of Blues             12/16, 12PM CT        http://bit.ly/2gSZmVb 4/3       Los Angeles, CA         The Wiltern                 12/16, 10 AM PT       http://bit.ly/2g7fRO2 4/5       Oakland, CA                The Fox Theater         12/16, 10 AM PT       http://bit.ly/2g66oXx 4/7       Toronto, ON               Danforth Music Hall    12/16, 10 AM ET       http://bit.ly/2heBf4m               ###