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March 3, 2012 Boulder Station, Boulder Highway, Las Vegas - Alan Parsons Live Project More Info.

March 25, 2012 San José, Costa Rica - FIA, La Sabana Park More Info.

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Past Dates:

January 29, 2012 Yoshi's San Francisco, San Francisco, CA - Alan Parsons Live Project w/ David Pack More Info.

December 2, 2011 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico - More Info

November 12, 2011 Santa Barbara, California - A benefit for the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County at the Lobero Theatre.

September 16, 2011 Bogotá, Colombia - Teatro Jorge Eliecer Gaitan

August 10, 2011 Zofingen, Switzerland - Magic Night at Heitere Openair

August 6, 2011 Gibraltar - Tecentenary Sports Hall of Bayside Sports Complex More Info

August 5, 2011 Motril, Spain - Plaza de Toros de Motril Tickets More Info

May 10, 2011 Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caupolican

May 7 & 8, 2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Aires Gran Rex Theater

May 6, 2011 Cordoba Provcince, Argentina - Orfeo Stadium

March 28, 2011 - Auditorio National - Mexico City w/ Former members of ELO www.auditorio.com.mx/

March 4, 2011 Las Vegas, Nevada - "THE RAILHEAD" at Boulder Station Casino

December 3, 2010 Rotterdam, Holland - Nieuwe Luxor Theater

December 2, 2010 Utrecht, Holland - Muziekcentrum Vredenburg

December 1, 2010 Eindhoven, Holland - Muziekcentrum Frits Philips

November 30, 2010 Heerleen, Holland - Limburg Theater

November 29, 2010 Breda, Holland - Chasse Theater

November 18, 2010 7PM Los Angeles, California - Guitar Center Sessions with Alan Parsons

June 9, 2010 Agoura Hills, CA - The Canyon Club - Vibe Tribe All-Star Jam

June 1, 2010 Paris, France - The Olympia

May 6, 2010 Monterrey Mexico
Postponed at the request of the Mayor of Monterrey following violence in the area

March 22, 2010 St. Petersburg, Russia

March 21, 2010 St. Petersburg, Russia

March 20, 2010 Moscow, Russia

March 18, 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia

March 16, 2010 Warsaw, Poland - Sala Kongresowa      

March 14, 2010 Prague, Czech Republic - Congress Centre

March 8, 2010 Tel Aviv, Israel

March 7, 2010 Tel Aviv, Israel

Sunday 20 December 2009 – Dortmund – Westfalenhall

Saterday 19 December 2009 – Köln – Lanxessarena

Friday 18 December 2009 – Köln – Lanxessarena

Thursday 17 December 2009 – Hannover – TUI Arena

Wednesday 16 December 2009 – Hannover – TUI Arena

Tuesday 15 December 2009 – Bremen – AWD Dome

Sunday 13 December 2009 – München – Olympiahalle

Saturday 12 December 2009 – München – Olympiahalle

Friday 11 December 2009 – München – Olympiahalle

Thursday 10 December 2009 – München – Olympiahalle

Tuesday 8 December 2009 Erfurt – Messehalle

Sunday 6 December 2009 – Frankfurt – Festhalle (15:00h)

Saturday 5 December 2009 – Frankfurt – Festhalle

Friday 4 December 2009 – Frankfurt – Festhalle

Thursday 3 December 2009 – Stuttgart – Schleyerhalle

Wednesday 2 December 2009 – Mannheim – SAP Arena

Tuesday 1 December 2009 – Oberhausen – Arena

Sunday 29 November 2009 – Berlin – O2 World

Saturday 28 November 2009 – Hamburg – Color Line Arena

Friday 27 November 2009 – Hamburg – Color Line Arena

September 11, 2009 Kansas City, MO - Ameristar Casino

September 10, 2009 St. Charles, MO - Ameristar Casino

September 9, 2009 Milwaukee, WI - Potawatome Casino

August 14-15, 2009 Reno, NV - John Ascuaga's Nugget

August 8, 2009 Las Vegas, NV - Cannery Casino Show includes the Pink Floyd
Laser Spectacular

August 7, 2009 San Diego, CA - Humphrey's (Opening Act: The Alastair Greene Band)

August 6, 2009 Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia L.A. Live Show includes the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular

July 25 - Katzenberg Arena Near Munich, Germany with the Excalibur Show

January 20, 2009 Santa Barbara, CA - UniTea Inaugural Ball - Granada Theater uniteaball.org
*All ticket proceeds, administered by the Unity Shoppe, will benefit those who are the uninsured and under-insured survivors of the Tea Fire.  (Alan Parsons & PJ Olsson appearing with local musicians)

July 19 - 5 & 8PM, Annapolis, MD - Rams Head on Stage

July 18, 2009 Wheeling, WV - Wheeling Island Hotel Casino and Racetrack

July 17, 2009 Auburn Hills, MI - The Orchestra and Alan Parsons Live Project at the
DTE Energy Music Theatre

July 16, 2009 Ottawa Ontario Canada - Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest

January 17, 2009 Hollywood, CA - The House of Blues

January 15, 2009 Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim.

May 3 - Seoul, Korea - Olympic Stadium - Flower Power Festival
April 26 - Benidorm, Spain "NIGHT OF THE PROMS"   http://www.notp.com/belgique/charleroi/programme

April 25 - Valencia, Spain "NIGHT OF THE PROMS"   http://www.notp.com/belgique/charleroi/programme
April 19 - Belgium in "NIGHT OF THE PROMS"   http://www.notp.com/belgique/charleroi/programme

April 18 - Belgium in "NIGHT OF THE PROMS"   http://www.notp.com/belgique/charleroi/programme

April 17 - Belgium in "NIGHT OF THE PROMS" (Private Show)

April 6 - Boerderji Zoetermeer, Holland - www.boerderij.org

April 5 - Istanbul, Turkey, Bostanci Gosteri Merkezi Istanbul

April 2 - Irving Plaza, NYC

April 1 - Rams Head, Annapolis MD

February 22, 2008 - Ameristar Casino & Hotel Kansas City, MO - one show 8PM

February 21, 2008 - Ameristar Casino St. Charles, MO - 2 shows 7PM & 9PM

Jan 4, 2008 - Epiphany concert in Naples (Italy) - Alan performing with an Italian band w/ orchestra (2 songs) Will be broadcast on Jan 6

December 13, 2007 - Jaragua Renaissance Hotel La Fiesta - Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic

 

Current Line-up:

ALAN PARSONS: Guitar, vocal, keyboards, percussion
P.J. OLSSON: Vocals
MANNY FOCARAZZO: Keyboards
DANNY THOMPSON: Drums
GUY EREZ: Bass
ALASTAIR GREENE: Guitar
TODD COOPER: Vocals and Sax

2003-2009 Line-up:

ALAN PARSONS: Guitar, vocal, keyboards, percussion
GODFREY TOWNSEND: Guitar
STEVE MURPHY: Drums
P.J. OLSSON: Vocals
JOHN MONTAGNA: Bass
MANNY FOCARAZZO: Keyboards

As soon as new dates come available, they will be listed here.



ALASTAIR GREENE : Lead Guitar/Vocals



Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Alastair Greene was born April 18th, 1971 in Santa Barbara, CA and has been a mainstay of the Southern California music scene for over two decades. He discovered music through his mother's piano playing at home and whose record collection included classics by The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John, while his father's tastes at the time leaned toward Bach and Beethoven. Alastair was inspired to pursue music as a career by his grandfather, the late Chico Alvarez, who played trumpet as a member of the Stan Kenton Band in the '40s and '50s. Growing up, Alastair took piano lessons and played the saxophone before discovering the guitar in High School. He received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied for two years before returning to southern California to begin playing with Blues and Rock bands in the early ‘90s. Alastair is best known for his blues-based, soulful, and melodic guitar playing and is one of the rare-breed to play slide guitar. He can be heard on CDs by Alan Parsons (2004 release ‘A Valid Path'); Aynsley Dunbar (2008 release ‘Mutiny'); and Blues harmonica legend and member of WAR, Mitch Kashmar (2005 release 'Wake Up and Worry'). Alastair has put out five of his own CDs and is working on his sixth. He has also appeared on countless independent CD releases ranging from Blues and Folk to Southern Rock and Heavy Metal. Alastair continues to record and perform with his own band, as well as with the Alan Parsons Live Project. Find out more at www.agsongs.com

 

DANNY THOMPSON : Drums

Danny joined the Alan Parsons Live Project in March 2010 for their tour of Eastern Europe and The Middle East.

Danny grew up in Marin County California and was fortunate enough to be mentored at a young age by Creek Hart son of Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead). Dan studied under some of the greats like, Chuck Brown, Terry Bozzio, Dana Miller..

2008: Danny joined the Scott Weiland solo band (Velvet Revolver & Stone Temple Pilots front man) and performed on tracks for Scott's new release, Happy in Galoshes.  The band also got the chance to play Jay Leno, Jimmie Kimmel, Carson Daly and toured throughout U.S. and abroad.

2004-07: Danny was a member of The Mother Truckers (Texas based country rockabilly band) on Funzalo Records..

He also worked with Sara Betten (K's choice) and appeared in a number of videos and live performances. Through the years Dan has played with some real pros like Les Claypool (Primus), Mark Rivera (Billie Joel), Vince Neil, Jacob Dylan and Doug Grean.

1998-2003:  Protein: a band signed to Sony's W.O.R.K. Group, released 2 full length albums and toured the U.S. with Sugar Ray, No Doubt, Limp Bizkit, Primus and Sublime. Also the band had an MTV Asia Buzz clip.

GUY EREZ: Bass

Born and raised in Israel, music became Guy's life passion at an early age.

In his early twenties, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. He started performing and recording and was asked to join the teaching staff of LAMA (Los Angeles Music Academy) alongside Alphonso Johnson, Ralph Humphrey and Frank Gambale.

Guy soon built his first studio and became active as a songwriter and producer. His songwriting talent drew the attention of Chrysalis Music Publishing who signed him to a publishing deal.

Among the different artists Guy has worked with are, Sarah Bettens (K's Choice), Gypsy Kings, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ben Taylor, Sara Bareilles, Meredith Brooks, Billy Miles, John-5, Fefe Dobson, Karmina, P.J. Olsson , Will Daily, and Keaton Simon. Guy produced the song “Hey God” by Randy Coleman which was featured on the Oscar winning movie “Crash” soundtrack.

Guy's writing skills have now branched out to writing theme music for TV shows such as The Tom Green show and The Andy Dick show for MTV, I'm With Busy for Comedy Central , The Whitest Kids You Know for IFC and the themes for Marvel/Disney shows like the” Avengers” and ”The Astonishing X Man”.


P.J. OLSSON: Vocals

P.J. grew up in Houghton, Michigan and has been singing and making music as long as he can remember. He started playing violin at age 6. With a father who conducted an orchestra, he ended up taking music very seriously....that is until he realized you could sing words over one sixteenth the amount of chords and impress girls! His journey of inspiration took him through many odd situations and record deals. He has three released albums, which enjoyed varying degrees of attention, although he maintains he is proud of all of them. "One record got me on LETTERMAN, in NEWSWEEK, USA TODAY, ROLLING STONE, and a bunch of others too", says PJ. "Visine", a song taken from this album,was  Hightimes Magazine  song of the year. P.J. has performed alongside Rufus Wainright, Beth Orton, Bob Geldof, The The, DJ Spooky,Ben Harper, Nelly Furtado, The Twilight Singers, Train, Michelle Branch, The Flys and many more. When he's not working on his own music, he produces and writes for other artists and writes songs for movies, TV, and advertising. He started singing with Alan Parsons Live Project in mid 2003, and has been collaborating recently with Alan on his latest album. He now lives in Los Angeles. "The most important thing in my life is looking after my three kids and my wonderful wife", he says. "I live a simple life of hope and fun... music and words rule my every moment, and I'm sort of along for the ride".

MANNY FOCARAZZO: Keyboards/Backing vocals

Emanuel Focarazzo was born in 1967 in Brooklyn New York. He is a descendant of a musical lineage that has lasted generations. His grandfather, Charles Orlando, was a professional piano player whose work included silent films in the early 1900's. He grew up listening to his mother Vincenza at the piano playing all the great songs from the early 1900's to post World War 2 Americana. At an early age Manny would sit at the piano and compose songs and melodies of his own. Playing the piano as a child came naturally but he didn't take any formal lessons until his mid teens. His training lasted into college and he graduated with a music degree from Adelphi University under the guidance of David Bradshaw leading to three performances including his own compositions at Carnegie Hall at the age of 16. More recently Manny has worked with numerous bands in New York and he continues to perform all styles of music in many of New York's greatest music venues. His first love is composition and a current project is what could become a Broadway Musical - centered around post-war Coney Island. Another project is a progressive rock conceptual work with repetitive yet evocative melodic and lyrical themes. The keyboards are the driving force in this piece and Emanuel prefers to use traditional analog sounds to tell the story. His contribution as keyboardist with the latest incarnation of The Alan Parsons Live Project is, to say the least, extraordinary.

TODD COOPER: Saxophone/Vocals

TODD COOPER has spent the past 25 years as an accomplished Singer, Songwriter, and Saxophonist. His career has unfolded into a versatile journey through the New York and Nashville music scene. Todd has toured extensively, singing background vocals, playing saxophone and composing for various artists, from Pop to Rock, Folk to Country, and everything in between. He spends much of his time in the studio, working with producers and artists on vocal arrangements for master sessions. Todd is the newest addition to the Alan Parsons Live Project and resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Emma, and daughter, Carli Blue. Todd has also worked with David Foster, Jack Ingram, Radney Foster, Big and Rich, Michael W. Smith, Randy Rogers, Billy Falcon, The Judds, Tinmen, Nathan Lee, Michael English, Kim Boyce, Roger Kreiger, Carman, Fleming & John and many more.

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MARTIN THOMAS: Lighting Design

MARTIN THOMAS has been lighting acts since 1979, being groomed by some of the industry’s finest in theatre, music and corporate events. Originally from New York City and involved in some of the raucous beginnings of the club and bar music scene, he has spent many of the past 27 years touring as Lighting Director for acts ranging in styles from Sarah Brightman to D'Angelo. 2006 found Martin working as Touring Lighting Director for Dave Chappelle, Alan Parsons Live Project, The Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu and Chris Brown on 5 Continents during the 12 month period. 2007 was a year for learning new technologies, including 3D Visualization programs, Media Servers and the latest in Digital Lighting/ Show Control systems, so that he can bring his clients all the best that the Production industry has to offer into their shows. Recent articles include:

http://www.martinpro.com/casestory/

http://livedesignonline.com/concerts/working_icon/index.html

http://www.myspace.com/relentlesslightingdesign

Martin enjoys the wide variety of musical acts he has had the opportunity to illuminate, in particular the beautifully visual music of the Alan Parsons Live Project, and he looks forward to enhancing every concertgoers experience in the coming years. He can be contacted at mthomasld@yahoo.com.

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kevin kennedyKEVIN KENNEDY: Sound Engineer

Kevin Kennedy is very happy to be a part of the Alan Parsons Live Project and work with such a talented group of musicians and crew. Kevin majored in Music Composition at the University of South Florida in Tampa where he composed, designed, engineered, and recorded for many university shows, programs, and guest artists. Kevin has since worked with numerous artists and shows including Scandal, BB King, John Waite, the SuperBowl Pre-Game Show, Phantom of the Opera, Putting It Together, On the Razzle, Batboy, Darwin In Malibu, The Florida Orchestra, various cabaret shows, and numerous opening acts and local performers. Kevin has also toured as Sound Engineer with the 1st National Tour of Mamma Mia, as well as Madison Square Garden’s 1st National Tour of The Wizard of Oz, Cameron Mackintosh’s US production of Martin Guerre, and Ralph Lemon’s Geography Tour. Kevin has also held Production positions at the University of South Florida, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and is currently the House Sound Engineer at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater when he’s not touring with The Project.

 

 


All of the following video clips are from a 2004 performance of the Alan Parsons Live Project in Madrid, Spain. The concert is now available on DVD in the AP Shop