Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul Unveil Landmark Tour TO Benefit The Rock and Roll Forever Foundation's Teachrock
By: Macon Prickett Feb. 28, 2018
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul have unveiled plans for a landmark live tour benefitting TeachRock, the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation's national initiative to bring music curriculum into middle and high schools across the country. The dates - which mark the first-ever rock tour specifically geared to address this crucial societal need - begin April 29 at New Brunswick, NJ's historic State Theatre and then continues through all of May, breaking for Stevie's induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on May 6, alongside Meryl Streep, Debbie Harry, The Four Seasons, among others. Additional dates will be revealed soon. Tickets for all announced dates will go on sale this Friday, March 2nd. All proceeds from the upcoming tour will go to TeachRock. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit littlesteven.com.
"Music will forever be humanity's most effective and consistent source of inspiration and motivation," says Little Steven, "and, we have learned, music turns out to be our most solid common ground for establishing communication between teachers and students which is where education begins."
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL: TEACHROCK TOUR 2018
APRIL
29 - New Brunswick, NJ - State Theatre
MAY
1 - Ridgefield, CT - Ridgefield Playhouse
2 - New York, NY - Playstation Theatre
4 - Albany, NY - The Palace
5 - Morristown, NJ - Mayo Performing Arts Center
ADDITIONAL DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
The Rock and Roll Forever Foundation is a 501(c)(3) established by Steven Van Zandt. TeachRock is the Foundation's national middle and high school curriculum initiative. Created to address the challenges of an environment in which schools face cuts to arts funding, TeachRock brings rich, multimedia educational materials to teachers and students everywhere at no cost. TeachRock's groundbreaking lesson plan collections and resources help teachers engage students by connecting the history of popular music to classroom work across the disciplines. From social studies and language arts to geography, media studies, science, general music, and more, TeachRock offers engaging and meaningful arts integration material for every classroom. TeachRock is endorsed by the New Jersey School Boards Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the National Association for Music Education and the National Council for Geographic Education, with partners including Scholastic Inc., HBO, PBS, Reelin' in the Years, ABC News, Rock's Backpages, New York University's Steinhardt School, and the Grammy Museum. For lesson plans and additional information, please visit teachrock.org.
Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul made their long-awaited live return at London's BluesFest in 2016. Since then, the band has traversed the globe, with multiple dates in America, England, Scotland, Germany, The Netherlands and Spain, highlighted not only by Paul McCartney sitting in to perform "I Saw Her Standing There" in London, but also by a lunchtime show performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
The Soulfire Tour marked the acclaimed release of Little Steven's sensational new solo album, SOULFIRE, available now via Wicked Cool/Big Machine/UMe. The album is available as CD, digital download, and 180-gram black vinyl, the latter presented as a double LP housed in a gatefold sleeve with the music on Sides 1-3 and a unique etching of Little Steven on Side 4.
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