Tony Bennett Croons At The Fox Theater In St. Louis 5/8

The world's most down-to-earth living legend Tony Bennett will perform live at the Fabulous Fox Theatre Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and prices are$86, $76, $66 & $56. All prices are subject to change.

Presented by KETC Channel 9 and Fox Concerts. Music legend and 2007 Primetime Emmy® Award winner Tony Bennett has a talent that sets him apart from any other entertainer. When performing, he connects to people everywhere through thetimeless appeal of his music.

With million records sold worldwide and platinum and gold albums to his credit, Bennett is the premier interpreter of the Great American songbook, a 15-time Grammy® winner - including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - and a Kennedy Center honoree, among countless other achievements. The UN honored him in 2007 with their Humanitarian Award and Billboard presented him with their "Billboard Century Award" in December 2006. Bennett's career has enjoyed three distinct phases, each of them very successful. In the early '50s, he scored a series of major hits that made him one of the most popular recording artists of the time.

In the early '60s, he mounted a comeback as more of an adult-album seller. And from the mid-'80s on, he achieved renewed popularity with generations of listeners who hadn't been born when he first appeared. This, however, defines Bennett more in terms of marketing than music.

He himself probably would saythat, in each phase of his career, he has remained largely constant to his goals of singing the best available songs the best way he knows how. Popular taste may have caused his level of recognition to increase or decrease, but he continued to sing popular standards in a warm, husky tenor, varying his timing and phrasing with a jazz fan's sense of spontaneity to bring out the melodies and lyrics of the songs effectively.

By the start of the 21st century, Bennett seemed like the last of a breed, but he remained as popular as ever. Tickets for Tony Bennett are on sale now at the Fox Theatre box office and all MetroTix locations. To charge by phone call MetroTix at 314/534-1111 or online at www.metrotix.com. For more information please visit www.tony-bennett.net.

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