2 shows
Please note:
ALL PATRONS MUST BE 19 YEARS OR OLDER
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT
Date
Friday October 31, 2008 at 8pm
Saturday November 1, 2008 at 8pm
(doors open at 7:15pm)
Location
Casino Nova Scotia
Schooner Room, Halifax
Tickets on sale
starting Monday July 28 at 11am
Ticket price
All tickets are $77.50 each
Price includes tax and service charge.
Tickets subject to an additional $4 per order fee if ordered on-line.
Reserved seating
All patrons must be 19 years or older.
Availability - SOLD OUT
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Halifax- Casino Nova Scotia is honored to host singer, songwriter, legend Burton Cummings live in the Schooner Showroom October 31 & November 1 at 8PM.
Burton Cummings is world renown singer, pianist, songwriter. He studied piano as a boy and sang tenor roles in Gilbert and Sullivan productions at high school. He joined the Guess Who, serving as its singer, and pianist 1966-75. Cummings along with band mate Randy Bachman, co-wrote most of the band's biggest hits - 'These Eyes,' 'Laughing,' and 'American Woman.'
His song 'Stand Tall' was an international hit in 1976, followed by the Canadian hits 'My Own Way to Rock','Break It To Them Gently' and 'I Will Play a Rhapsody', and 'Fine State of Affairs'. Cummings' fifth LP, Sweet Sweet, included a second US hit, 'You Saved My Soul”, and was followed by the albums Heart in 1984 and Plus Signs in 1990. The latter included the popular 'Take One Away.'
Cummings, who brought a rich, sculpted voice to a range of plaintive and vigorous rocker songs, enjoyed his greatest popularity at the turn of the 1980s. He headlined concerts in Canadian stadiums and arenas and toured in the USA opening for Seals & Croft, America, Alice Cooper, etc. He continued through the 1980s to appear in Canada in nightclubs, in smaller concert halls, and at charity events. His repertoire included Guess Who material and his own hits. In the following decades, he pursued his solo career, playing concerts and recording the 1996 solo album Up Close and Alone, which featured Cummings alone on piano. Briefly, he was pianist for Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, touring Europe. Cummings again appeared with the reformed Guess Who in 1999 for reunion tours of Canada and the USA in 2000 and 2001; Cummings and Bachman also occasionally perform as a duo.
Cummings himself received Junos as most promising male singer and best male singer, and for best-selling album. Canadian sales of his first four LPs exceeded 200,000 each. In recognition of his work with the Guess Who and under his own name, Cummings was the recipient in 1989 of PRO Canada's Wm Harold Moon Award for international achievement. In 2001 he accepted SOCAN Classics awards.
In 2005 he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Cummings received numerous additional honours as a member of the Guess Who; together they are credited with laying the foundation for Canadian successes in the music industry.
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