SHALAMAR CELEBRATE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ‘FRIENDS’ WITH A PERFORMANCE OF THE ENTIRE ALBUM!

SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2023 AT BUXTON OPERA HOUSE

After a 15-date tour in June, where the band performed at prestigious venues such as The London Palladium and Birmingham Symphony Hall, to their biggest audiences since the original 1982 Friends tour, Shalamar have announced that they are returning to the UK this year and for the first time ever they are visiting Buxton Opera House on Sunday 26 November!

The Friends 40th Anniversary tour will see the band perform all 10 tracks from the album. As Howard Hewett lead singer said, ‘throughout the years we’ve played the 4 hit singles plus varying other tracks from the album but never the whole 10 tracks. For a lot of people (over a million copies were sold in the UK alone) Friends was their ‘go to’ album of the early 80s. In the days of soul boy cars such as Fiesta XR2i and Escort XR3i, the sound of Friends playing from the in-car speaker system was ever present!’

Created by Solar Records head man Dick Griffey, the Friends album delivered 4 top 10 hit singles; Night to Remember, There It Is, Friends and I Can Make You Feel Good, but more importantly a dance craze never seen before in the UK by group member Jeffrey Daniel. Exploding after a single performance on Top of The Pops, the Moon Walk had taken the nation by storm and a sold-out UK tour saw the band emerge as the ‘hottest ticket’ in town!

Since then, the band has evolved. Dick Griffey’s daughter Carolyn Griffey now fronts the band alongside original members Howard Hewett and Jeffrey Daniel, from the classic 1982 line up. The trio have toured the UK several times, backed by a solid 7-piece band, they are guaranteed crowd pleasers. As Jeffrey Daniel says ‘A Shalamar concert is not a band playing to an audience, it’s a band and an audience having a party together, from the first song people are up off their seats having a good time’

The band will be joined by a special guest, the UK’s favourite Soulstress Jaki Graham. Please find Shalamar’s full biography here: https://shalamar.info/info/biography/

Listings Sunday 26 November 2023 – 7.30pm

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