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Blake: Live In Concert 2014
Vocal trio Blake return with their ‘Live In Concert’ tour for 2014. Touring the length and breadth of the UK Blake will provide an evening of great music and entertainment from these singers whose stunning harmonies and rat-pack banter have been entertaining audiences around the world. As well as classic songs from their three previous chart-topping and award-winning albums Blake are looking forward to performing songs from their latest album ‘Start Over’.
In November Blake announced their partnership with UK based charity Walking With The Wounded starting with the launch of a charity single. The song, ‘To The Sun’, which was written by songwriter Alistair Griffin, has been adopted by Walking With The Wounded as its official anthem with 50 pence from the sale of each single donated to the charity. BLAKE debuted ‘To The Sun’ in Trafalgar Square at the South Pole Allied Challenge send off in front of Prince Harry and the expedition team members.
Blake’s association with Walking With The Wounded will include a range of activities through 2014 including participation in some of the charity’s challenges as well as promotion and fundraising throughout Blake’s UK tour dates and performances at Walking With The Wounded events.
“To be working with Walking With The Wounded and have our song as their official anthem is a great honour” says Humphrey Berney. “To be able to help raise awareness and funds through our music and involvement with Walking With The Wounded is very special and rewarding.
Blake’s most recent album ‘Start Over’, is a beautiful collection of contemporary harmony pop featuring stunning original songs and a few carefully selected covers, including Paul McCartney’s ‘Beautiful Night’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’. Having formed in 2007, recording and performing as a classical group, ‘Start Over’ is Blake’s first pop album and sees them embracing the challenge. The change in musical direction is in fact a natural progression for Blake. Inspired by great vocalists such as the Bee Gees, Boyz II Men and The Beach Boys, and having toured almost continually since 2009’s ‘Together’ (their third album), BLAKE’s live set list has expanded to include more and more contemporary material. The group discovered that the strength of their vocal arrangements and four part harmonies allowed them to interpret a widening range of songs and the reaction from their audiences reinforced their belief that they were creating something special.
Blake’s worldwide status continues to grow as the band take their music to important new territories and return to the Philippines where they are hugely popular. Their third album ‘Together’ topped the charts in the country last year and the group are putting the finishing touches on a new album specifically for the Philippines including a number of tracks sung in Tagalog, one of the Philippines’ predominant languages. In the UK the Filipino fan base is just as strong as proven when the band took to the stage at Barrio Fiesta 2013 to a crowd of 60,000 Filipinos. As well as touring the UK in 2014 the band have tours lined up in Germany and South Africa .
BLAKE – Live In Concert 2014
January
Sat 25th – Chelmsford City Theatre
February
Sat 1st – Theatr Ffwrnes, Llanelli
Fri 21st – Epic Studios in Norwich
Wed 26th – Corn Exchange, Newbury
Thu 27th – Buxton Opera House Fri 28th – The Capitol, Horsham
March
Fri 28th – Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Annes
Sat 29th – The Lichfield Garrick Theatre
Sun 30th – South Shields Customs House
April
Thur 10th – Venue Cymru, Llandudno
Fri 11th – Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon
Sat 12th – Theatr Hafren, Newtown
May
Sat 10th – The Pavilion, Worthing
Fri 16th – The Medina, Isle of Wight
Sat 17th – Lighthouse Theatre, Poole
Sun 18th – Churchill Theatre, Bromley
June
Sat 7th – The Phoenix Theatre, Blyth
Sun 8th – The Phoenix Theatre, Blyth
Wed 11th – The Brindley, Runcorn
Fri 13th – South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
Sat 14th – The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford