CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE Announces Second and Final Sydney Performance 30/1/2017

There is only one David Bowie celebration concert you really need to see. Just one. This one! And thanks to the huge response to the pre sale, Celebrating David Bowie have announced a 2nd and final chance to see this amazing show at the Sydney Opera House on Monday, 30 January, 2017 with tickets on sale NOW.

The idea for the Celebrating David Bowie tour grew out of two large, informal ensemble shows featuring 70+ musicians in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the spring of 2016 which included Gary Oldman, Seal, Ewan McGregor, Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) and Bowie band alumni from Space Oddity to the latest Blackstaralbum with both shows generating a great deal of press and fan praise from around the world. Another show was also added to the tour in New York City on 10 January - the anniversary of Bowie's death.

The concerts all take place in cities that have a strong connection with David Bowie and his work and will feature a core two dozen musicians and singers, joined by our own Bernard Fanning, Sarah Blasko and Paul Dempsey, recreating a sound like no other.

Leading the group in Sydney will be former star Bowie band members Mike Garson, Adrian Belew, Scrote, Earl Slick, members of David's last two touring bands, Angelo Moore from Fishbone, Latin Grammy Award Winner Gaby Moreno, Bernard Fowler from The Rolling Stones, Joe Sumner and a vast extended musical family who play with or have played with Tom Waits, Sting, Seal, Herbie Hancock, De La Soul, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, B52s, Dr. Dre, Burt Bacharach, David Byrne, Todd Rundgren, Prince, Neil Young, and Lenny Kravitz make up the core ensemble.

Individually, these former Bowie band members performed, wrote and recorded together with David through several decades including the 1973's Ziggy Stardust tour, the Diamond Dogs tour, Isolar II (Heroes) tour, to the hugely successful Serious Moonlight tour, the Sound And Vision greatest hits tour to Glastonbury 2000, Heathen, his final A Reality Tour and many of them appeared on Bowie's triumphant comeback album, The Next Day.

Far from being a tribute show and never referred to as one, this ensemble is David Bowie people playing David Bowie music, David Bowie style. This is the first and last time this inner circle will do anything like this and these global shows are likely to be the last time that they perform his music together. Sadly, this may be the closest anyone will come to a David Bowie live experience ever again.

Tickets to Celebrating David Bowie at the Sydney Opera Houseon Sunday, 29 January and Monday, 30 January are on sale NOW!

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