Martin Barre Band concerts in 2020 to 2022

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Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Aqualung 50th Anniversary Tour concert
                                 at The Scottish Rite Theatre has been cancelled.
If you have already purchased a ticket to the event, please check your personal email
for information on refunds.   Please reach out to the Box Office at 309-442-6889 with
any questions or concerns.    We thank you for your understanding and apologize for
 any inconvenience this may cause.       We look forward to seeing you at an event at
     The Scottish Rite Theatre soon!      Thank you, The Scottish Rite Theatre Team

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Live at The Acorn - JETHRO TULL'S MARTIN BARRE + SPECIAL GUESTS
   AQUALUNG 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR January 19, 2022    LINK 
          
         
 

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MARTIN BARRE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF JETHRO TULL LINK
DATE Jan 20 2022 TIME 7:30 PM Arcada Theatre 105 E. Main St., St. Charles IL
            At the center of Jethro Tull’s unique sound was guitarist Martin Barre !!!
renowned for his formidable mastery of historic riffs, power chords and soaring melodic solos.





    

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             Fri, Jan 21st, 2022 8:00 pm       LINK 
      Martin Barre's Aqualung 50th Anniversary Show 
   

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www.woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=72065

Martin Barre Brings 50 years of Jethro Tull Music To The Woodlands on Jan 25
By: Billy Adams | Published 01/21/2022



THE WOODLANDS, TX -- We interviewed Martin Barre, longtime lead guitarist for the British rock band, Jethro Tull. Martin along with official Tull band member Clive Bunker will take the stage at Dosey Doe Big Barn on January 25 to entertain the crowd with the sounds that made Jethro Tull famous. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the songs of Jethro Tull at the acoustically pleasing and nationally popular Dosey Doe Big Barn.

Martin Barre is one of those talented musicians that not only lives and breaths music but appreciates the nature of music, its place in his life and how it affects his audience. He has traveled the world, performing concerts for millions of people and in his spare time, he likes to relax by picking up a guitar or flute and playing his favorite songs. Music isn’t something he does while entertaining at concerts. Music is something he enjoys and lives every day.

Barre was born in a suburb of Birmingham, England. We asked him about his early life and how he entered the music industry. He said that he loved music and started playing the flute at an early age. He always admired rock guitarists and told us that when he attended rock concerts, he would look at the guitarists and think to himself that he wanted the fame, the money and the lifestyle of those guitarists.

Barre mentioned that he had originally pursued a career in architecture, not music while in college, even designing a road junction in Birmingham, and although he was pretty good as an architect, he said that the field of architecture was just way too boring for him. He wanted something subsequently more interesting, with a creative aspect to it and music was the outlet and career he loved and ultimately decided to pursue. It was a decision that changed his life in a profound way.

This prompted Barre to move to London and audition for a local band called The Noblemen. He could play several instruments, including the flute and guitar, but this band was only looking for a saxophone player. With his flute experience under his belt and a genuine talent for music, Barre purchased a saxophone and became familiar with the instrument. In just a couple of days Barre was able to wing it enough during the audition to join the band as a saxophone player. Being part of this band helped put Martin on a course that would eventually lead him to the band, Jethro Tull. The band he initially joined was originally called The Noblemen, but Barre mentioned that the band had changed its name many times during his time with them and finally the band decided on the name, Gethsemane. Barre played with them for a couple of year and after a year was made their lead guitarist.

Gethsemane played all over England in local pubs and through mutual venues was later introduced and became acquaintances with the band, Jethro Tull. Around the time that Gethsemane was about to disband, Jethro Tull’s manager reached out to Barre asking him to audition to play with Jethro Tull. Barre auditioned and was brought into the band and later became the lead guitarist. The rest is history. Jethro Tull originally started off playing blues and jazz but later moved to progressive rock, folk rock and classical music. Outside of Ian Anderson, Barre was the longest serving member of Jethro Tull and played guitar and flute for their band for 43 years. His contribution to the band is immeasurable.

Jethro Tull was met with great success. Over the years, Jethro Tull has amazed audiences with their unique sounds and have garnered number hits through their efforts including their popular albums, Stand Up and Aqualung. Martin Barre will be bring back the sounds of Jethro Tull on Sunday, January 25. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear legends of rock performing at Dosey Doe this week.

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  SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022  AT 9 PM – 11 PM EST
 Martin Barre Performs Classic Jethro Tull at The Wildey

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               Special thanks to Tom Block for these images by Becky Kohler
           Martin Barre Band at the Wildey Theater Saturday Night !!!




      

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           TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022 AT 7:30 PM – 12:30 AM EST
                       Martin Barre   "50 years of Jethro Tull Music
     with Official Tull Band Member Clive Bunker" at Dosey Doe!    LINK 

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                Jan 26      Sam's Burger Joint Presents:   LINK 
                      Jethro Tull's Martin Barre + Special Guests
          Aqualung 50th Anniversary Tour   Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022

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www.dallasobserver.com/music/ahead-of-his-dallas-show-martin-barre-talks-his-dislike-of-most-music-13286029

Ex-Jethro Tull Guitarist Martin Barre Says He Dislikes ‘99% of Music’
VINCENT ARRIETA JANUARY 26, 2022 4:00AM


Martin Barre learned great life lessons on the road, mostly with Jethro Tull, about music and how much most of it sucks. Martin Webb

Of the nearly 55 years that Jethro Tull has existed as rock ‘n’ roll’s ambassador of flute-driven English folk music, 45 of those years were driven by the muscular guitar battery of Martin Barre. With a new lease on his own career and on the relationship with the band that made him famous, the former Jethro Tull guitarist is scheduled to bring his solo band to the Arlington Music Hall.

At 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, Barre and co. are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tull’s landmark album Aqualung with a special appearance by former Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker and a performance of the iconic album in its entirety along with other Tull favorites and selections from Barre’s recent solo triumphs.

Barre and Jethro Tull parted ways in 2012, when Ian Anderson, the group's flute-playing, jester-like frontman, decided to reconfigure the band as more of a solo endeavor. In the decade since, Barre turned his focus on songwriting and composition, something he had little opportunity to do in Jethro Tull.

“There wasn’t an availability because Ian was so prolific,” Barre says over the phone before a show in snowbound Michigan. “Now I have a lot of space to do that. I’m always up for the challenge and very driven to being a better writer, arranger and producer of music. I always try to improve on what I have as opposed to everybody else’s ‘conclusions.’ Everybody makes ‘conclusions’ about music and what is good and what is bad, but I prefer my own for better or for worse.”

Surprisingly, despite the wide-ranging styles that he has covered both with and without Jethro Tull, Barre says his own appetite for outside music is rather specific.

“Ninety-nine percent of music I hear, I don’t like,” he says. “I don’t like other guitar players, I don’t like saxophone. If there’s any music I like, it’s classical music. I’ve always loved it, that’s what I listen to for pleasure.”

Barre has said in the past that he avoids listening to other guitarists to preserve his own style of playing.

“I’ve been listening to great players for 50 years, and I admire what they do, but I don’t relate to it,” he says “I don’t hear a guitar player and think ‘I wish I could do that,’ because I’m happy with what I can do. I’m just not interested. I’m just trying to be a better music writer. In terms of playing, I think I’ve found my niche and I have no plans of getting out soon.”

Whether this method of "preservation" is more or less effective than others, Barre says every person should have their own methods.

“I think you get to the same place,” he says. “You can learn guitar from having lessons or watching YouTube videos or figuring it out yourself, but you end up in the same place.”

That being said, the remaining 1% that Barre does enjoy is somewhat surprising.

“I like virtuoso bluegrass,” he says. “Banjo and mandolin music is fabulous. Some folk music, too, Scottish and Irish folk music. A tiny bit of blues. But classical music gives me everything I want. It’s got all of those genres in it, you just got to find them.”

Since fully committing to his solo work, Barre has released four albums in the last decade and has more material on the way, a creative explosion from someone whose first writing credit (the title track of 1975’s Minstrel in the Gallery, a credit shared with Anderson) came six years into his tenure with the band and whose first sole credited piece came three years later (“Quatrain” from Tull’s live album Busting Out).

“I’ve been doing it more in later years because I’ve had the motivation to do it,” Barre says. “I love writing music as a beginner. There’s a lot of room for improvement. If I have any aspirations in my career, it’s to be a better music writer.”

Barre says that he has no qualms about his newfound love for songwriting possibly being overshadowed by the towering legacy of his life’s work.

“I use the one to feed the other,” he says “If I play the music of Jethro Tull to 5,000 people, and I can play four of my own songs, that’s great. I’m happy to do that. I have no pretension as to why I’m here and why my audience is here, but in the back of my mind, my music will always be more important to me. It will always be there under the surface. To write a song that everybody knows, or to have a band come up and say ‘We play one of your songs on stage,’ It would be the best thing that could happen to me. The rest is bread and butter.”

On whether he feels like his recent burst of creativity can lead to artistic burnout, Barre says that he’s confident that isn’t coming soon.

“I haven’t found it harder yet, but I know a lot of people whose music writing has deteriorated,” he says with a chuckle. “I just hope it doesn’t happen to me for a long time and when it does, I’ll just stop writing. It’s very hard to be honest with yourself, and it’s very hard to give up something you’ve done all your life, but I’m very critical of what I do. I hope it stays that way.”

Barre says that if anything, the postponement of the last two years’ worth of live performances gave him a break and allowed him to creatively recharge.

“I had a great two years at home because I wrote music, I played guitar a lot, I played flute, I sort of caught up with life,” he says. “I didn’t mind it – financially it was a pig, but mentally it was quite refreshing. It’s a great thing to do at my age, just to sort of stop and take stock of everything. I’m in a good place. The band is back together, the four of us played Florida for a couple of weeks, and now we have the girls and Clive with us, so it’s really great.”
“I don’t hear a guitar player and think ‘I wish I could do that,’ because I’m happy with what I can do." – Martin Barre

Barre's current band includes singer/guitarist Dan Crisp, bassist Alan Thompson, drummer Darby Todd, and singers Alex Hart and Becca Langsford providing vocals and supplemental instrumental backing.

“I just try to give an audience what they paid to come and see and hear,” Barre says. “If someone tells me ‘I really like the way you do the Tull stuff, but I’m not sure about your stuff,’ it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. I don’t have any expectations at all. If for every 10 persons that says that there’s one person that says they’d like to hear more of mine, then that’s a great balance.”

While the past decade has been Barre’s first as a solo performer and writer, it's not his first time making music outside of Jethro Tull. He played guitar on a number of records throughout the years, including notable turns on solo albums by Ten Years After keyboardist Chick Churchill in 1973 and King Crimson bassist (and then-future Asia vocalist) John Wetton in 1980.

“I like working with other people,” Barre says. “Particularly people I know nothing about because it puts you in a very open position where you’ve got to work hard and come up with something that works for them rather than for yourself. I think musicians that don’t get involved in a challenge like that are missing out on what music’s all about.”

Fortunately for Barre, that creative mission, and a little bit of snow in the Midwest, seem to be his only challenges in life at the moment. He's greatly enjoying the camaraderie of his new band, and life on the road is something he’s been used to his entire life.

“I make my home wherever I am,” he says. “I’ve done that all my life. It’s not particularly ideal, but wherever I lay my head I call home. It’s part of the nomadic lifestyle. For the past 50 years I’ve gotten used to it. It gets a bit sad, but essentially it works for me. I love my things — my guitars, my car, my garden, my collection of steam engines — but outside of that, I don’t miss them at all. They mean pretty well nothing, which is a healthy contrast. Nothing should be that important materialistically, so I can live without them.”

Despite his inner peace without material possessions, Barre does appreciate the presence of a tea kettle on the road. “With real milk,” he says laughing.

Barre says he's learned to appreciate the little things in life at this point — privacy, the company of his family and bandmates and being able to stop and smell the roses once in a while on the road. Every day he runs for an hour in whatever town he's in.

“You see things that other people don’t when they just sit in a hotel room; that’s the last thing I want to do,” Barre says. “I want to walk around and see what a place is all about. Most of the places I’ve already been to, so I know them, but I take an interest in where I am.”

The nature of life on the road has taught Barre plenty about life.

“People always say ‘You’ve traveled everywhere,’ but I haven’t really, I’ve just worked in lots of different places," Barre says. "We once played in India, but I can’t really say that I’ve ‘been’ to India. I’ve only been to the Sheraton in Mumbai, and that isn’t India. That’s just America in India. So, I’m not a true traveler, but I make the best with what I’ve got.

"You either fight your circumstances or you accept and enjoy them. We stop for a proper home-cooked breakfast if we can find a family restaurant. These are the things that make life easier, and they become more important than they normally would.”

As Barre gets called away for what is sure to be a frigid soundcheck, he ends the conversation on a positive note.

“I’m just happy with what I’ve got," he says. "Music keeps me busy. It’s my life, it doesn’t own me, but I certainly own it.”
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      MARTIN BARRE – JETHRO TULL  Thursday, 01/27/2022    LINK 

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              Dosey Doe Music Hall    ROCKS WITH MARTIN BARRE 




                        Images by Becca Langsford 
                  1 AM @ The Alamo after the show  !~!!!

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                 Martin Barre Band       Aqualung 50th Anniversary
             with Clive Bunker  Saturday, January 29, 2022   LINK   

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                The Rialto Theatre/Tucson, Arizona ROCKS TONIGHT !!!!
          Martin Barre   Sunday,   January 30    Show:   8:00pm   LINK 

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                Darby Todd is at Musical Instrument Museum - MIM.
       "Got a private tour of the Musical instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona
        before our show tonight. Got to see one of Buddy Rich’s actual drum kits!"

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    OMG !!!   MARTIN BARRE ROCKS THE BIG APPLE !!!      LINK 

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NARTIN BARRE ROCKS The Strand Theatre
LIVE in Hudson Falls New York LINK

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     Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre    LINK     Friday,  February 4 at 8:00 pm
        

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                                    MASS APPEAL with Patrick Berry
   Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ celebrates 50 years since its release     LINK 

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  Jethro Tull's Martin Barre - Aqualung 50th Anniversary Tour   LINK 
  Saturday, February 5, 2022    8:00 PM    Tupelo Music Hall     Derry, NH





                                       

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triblive.com/aande/music/jethro-tull-axeman-martin-barre-revisiting-aqualung-album-in-greensburg/

Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre revisiting 'Aqualung'
album at Palace Theatre

SHIRLEY MCMARLIN | Friday, Feb. 4, 2022 3:13 p.m.Support Local Journalism



Martin Barre, the longtime Jethro Tull guitarist, was skeptical when it was suggested he do a 50th anniversary tour for the band’s iconic “Aqualung” album.

“I rejected (the idea) immediately,” he said. “Bands go out and say they’re gonna do an entire album, and essentially most albums don’t suit being played live the whole way through, because there are tracks that people sometimes don’t like.

“But then I looked at it and I said, this is doable and it would be fun,” he said. “I think people respect and enjoy the fact that it’s such an important album, and it is a landmark anniversary.”

Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre: “Aqualung” 50th Anniversary Tour comes to The Palace Theatre in Greensburg at 8 p.m. Feb. 10.

The tour also features Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker, original members of the British progressive rock band, along with Barre’s touring band, featuring lead vocalist Dan Crisp, keyboardist Alan Thomson, drummer Darby Todd and vocalists Becca Langsford and Alex Hart.

Who replaces Tull’s overcoat-clad, long-haired flutist and frontman, Ian Anderson? Nobody.

“We do have a flute player, and it’s me. But do I get my flute out of my suitcase? No, I don’t,” Barre said. “At nearly every show, there’s somebody that will say, ‘Where’s the flute?’ and they want their money back. But there’s only one person.

“No, there isn’t a flute, though if I say so myself, I am a proper flute player,” he said. “Right now we have two guitars to play all the flute parts, and it gives a new slant to the music. It refreshes it.”

For the extended flute solo in the track, “My God,” Barre said, “I have a very nice surprise in its place, but I’m not gonna say what it is. But when people hear it, they’re astounded.”

Concertgoers won’t hear “Aqualung” played beginning to end, either. The acoustic numbers are grouped together.

“The audiences just love it, and it’s a real contrast to the rest of the set,” Barre said. “We road-tested it in Europe a few months ago, and we tweaked it here and there. Some of the tracks I thought would be difficult to do have really become highlights of the set.”

Tickets for the show at The Palace are $49.75 and $59.75, floor seating only. Tickets purchased at the door are an additional $5. Masks are required inside the theater.

For more information and tickets, call 724-836-8000 or visit thepalacetheatre.org.

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      JETHRO TULL’S MARTIN BARRE – AQUALUNG 50TH ANNIVERSARY
                          SPECIAL GUEST: CLIVE BUNKER    LINK 

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   So far, so good to ARRIVE in Ridgefield and get ready for TONIGHT !!! 

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                                              ESI Events Presents
        MARTIN BARRE of Jethro Tull AQUALUNG 50th Anniversary Tour
   Tuesday  February 8  2022  @  Tralf Music Hall - Buffalo NY      LINK 

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          Tralf Music Hall                 IMPORTANT 
  Tonight's show with Martin Barre has been postponed.
New date TBD. Band member(s) have postive Covid tests.
      Apologies, fans. All the best to Martin and his team.

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longislandweekly.com/not-too-old-to-rock-n-roll/

Martin Barre brings Jethro Tull show to Madison Theatre at Molloy College
Frank Rizzo FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Let’s get the cliché out of the way. Martin Barre does not cotton to the Jethro Tull classic about being too old to rock.

“I’m a healthy 75-year-old and I run five miles every other day,” he said in a recent interview from San Antonio, TX, before a tour date. “I’m planning to be around for a bit.”

Aside from lead singer, main songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson, no one has been associated with the band as long or deeply as the guitarist, who joined in 1968. Anderson dissolved the group in 2011 and reformed it in 2019 without Barre. The two have led parallel bands in recent years, playing the vast catalogue in front of a fervent fan base.

Anderson recently unveiled the first Jethro Tull album of original material in two decades, the Zealot Gene.

Barre has also released a clutch of solo albums, cultivating a latent gift for songwriting. His latest CD is 50 Years of Jethro Tull (2019) with reworkings of the original songs.

Barre is highly respected among the “axe” fraternity, name dropped by numerous top players such as Carle Place’s Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, with Dire Strait’s Mark Knopfler calling Barre’s prowess “magical.”

According to his website, www.martinbarre.com, “His playing on the album Crest of a Knave earned him a Grammy award in 1989. Martin has worked with many other artists, including Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa and Chris Thompson, and has shared a stage with such legends as Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.”

Regarding Hendrix, he said, “We toured a lot with him in ’69.”

“What was he like as a person?” he was asked.

“Fabulous,” Barre replied. “A gentleman. A real nice, sympathetic good person. Very modest.”

Long Island Weekly asked Barre if this reporter’s favorite song from the 1970 album Benefit, “With You There To Help Me,” would be on the playlist.

“Ah, no (laughs). There you go,” he replied. “Mainly [because] we played it a lot with Ian and he had a short list of songs that he liked to do, and all of those songs got thrashed a bit over the years. Maybe one day we’ll do the stuff that we’ve never played. Things like ‘Minstrel’ and ‘Teacher.’ Ian never liked them, but I love them. I think they’re really great pieces of music.”

Regarding his future Barre said, “There’s always something on the horizon. I’m always writing music and I want to go back to doing more of my solo stuff.”

From the interview:

On lead singer Dan Crisp: “I’ve known Dan for a long time, and his voice has never changed. It lends itself really well to the songs. He can sing anything from the Tull catalog.”

On fans accepting obscure songs: “I did not want predictability in anything we do. I don’t want [to play] the best hits or the same set list as last year. I change everything on a nightly basis, because fans who come to more than one show deserve to hear something a bit different. It’s also fun for us to have some variety. And I think some of the great songs were the ones that were never performed live. But many people really enjoy some of the obscure songs and really appreciate that we’re not doing the obvious.”

On guitar technology over the decades: “I actually don’t think it has changed much. I’ve seen a t-shirt where it goes through the development of man from the ape and then underneath it has a Fender Stratocaster through the years, and it’s exactly the same (laughs). Everything is more reliable, but essentially it’s the same sound.”

On not interacting with fans after the show: “You can get ill, so we’re very strict with fans. They understand that we can’t mix. If one of us gets ill, we’ve lost the tour. They really have to appreciate what we have to do. It’s a whole different set of rules.”

On guitarists he admires: Leslie West of Mountain (“God bless him”); Scott Henderson “a [jazz] fusion player”; Julian Bream, a classical guitar player; Paco de Lucia, a jazz guitarist; and Gary Moore, a master of various styles. “I could go on,” he said.

Final thoughts: “We all weather in different ways. Some weather well, some don’t.”

Barre In Concert
On Friday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m., the Madison Theatre at Molloy College presents “Martin Barre Performs Classic Jethro Tull.” Per a press release, it features “Dan Crisp on lead vocals, Alan Thomson on keyboard and Darby Todd on drums, with Becca Langsford and Alex Hart on vocals, plus two very special guests—Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker (the band’s original drummer)—both of whom performed with Tull for many years. The show will also feature a special multimedia presentation that, together with the music, highlights the 50 years of Tull’s musical career.”

“Everything we do is fresh and every year we have a different tour,” Barre told Long Island Weekly. “Nobody gets tired of doing it. It’s a very thriving,
energetic band.”

Visit www.madisontheatreny.org or call 516-323-4444 for tickets.

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                      RESCHEDULE NOTICE:            LINK 
        THE MARTIN BARRE PERFORMANCE AT THE PALACE THEATRE
   HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022, at 8 PM
     The tour is sorry to announce that, although fully vaccinated and boosted,
              three members of Martin’s band have contracted COVID.
         For the safety of the remaining band members, crew, staff, and patrons,
         the Martin Barre show originally scheduled for Thursday, February 10
at The Palace Theatre has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at 8 PM.
  All tickets for the original performance will be honored, so patrons should hold on
to their tickets. For ticket inquires or if you are unable to attend the new event date,
   please contact the original point of purchase BY THURSDAY, MARCH 10 at 5 pm.

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    Madison Theatre at Molloy College Friday’s Martin Barre show
                     has been rescheduled to March 16th at 8pm.
Our thoughts are with Martin & his band, we can’t wait to see them next month!
                       Tickets available now!      LINK 
          

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                                           🚨 RESCHEDULED 🚨
        Next week's Martin Barre show has been moved to March 13.
   All tickets will be honored for the new date! Contact the box office at
    540-484-8277 or [e-mail] if you have questions!