JOURNEY
Freedom Tour 2023
Guest band: TOTO
March 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Centre Bell
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One of the most legendary rock bands of all time, JOURNEY announces that they will continue their hugely popular 50th Anniversary Tour, Freedom, in 2023, with guest band TOTO. JOURNEY, has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will visit 38 cities across North America to play its hits. including “Don’t Stop Believin”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Faithfully”, “Lights” and many more.
Presented by AEG Presents, JOURNEY’s Freedom 2023 tour kicks off Feb. 4 in Allentown, PA with stops in Austin, Montreal, Memphis and several other cities, before wrapping up April 25 at the brand new Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, CA. The 2023 tour will include concerts in Washington DC, Hartford, Toronto and Quebec City that were postponed earlier this year due to COVID-19.
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JOURNEY includes founding member Neal Schon (lead guitarist), Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals), Arnel Pineda (lead vocals), Jason Derlatka (keyboards, backing vocals), Deen Castronovo (drums, backing vocals) and Todd Jensen (bass). Neal Schon has been inducted into a Hall of Fame 3 times: Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Grammy Hall of Fame. Jon Cain is the recipient of two BMI Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey.
Neal Schon: “We are overwhelmed and humbled by the success of the Freedom Tour in 2022. So we added new shows in 2023,” says Neal Schon, founding member of JOURNEY. “We can’t wait to get back on the road with our good friends Toto! Join us for an extraordinary evening filled with great rock memories. See you soon, dear friends.»
Jonathan Cain added: “We are excited to play for our fans next year on tour with Toto. The combined hits of the two groups represent a few decades of excellence that have become the soundtrack of people’s lives. Journey’s and Toto’s music are reassuring in these uncertain times.»
Guest band TOTO has more than 3.3 billion streams on Spotify thanks to hits such as “Rosanna“, “Africa” and ” Hold the Line”. They will open for JOURNEY at all concerts.
Steve Lukather of TOTO shares: “On behalf of myself and the band, we are honoured to be on this tour with our old friends JOURNEY. It will be a great night of music, and since we are all long-time friends, it will also be a pleasure behind the scenes.»
FREEDOM 2023
| February 4 | Allentown, PA | PPL Center | ||
| February 5 | Charlottesville, VA | John Paul Jones Arena | ||
| February 8 | Savannah, GA | Enmarket Arena | ||
| February 10 | Columbia, SC | Colonial Life Arena | ||
| February 11 | Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Coliseum | ||
| February 14 | Lexington, KY | Rupp Arena | ||
| February 17 | Knoxville, TN | Thompson-Boling Arena | ||
| February 19 | Bossier City, LA | Brookshire Grocery Arena | ||
| February 22 | Austin, TX | Moody Center | ||
| February 23 | Lafayette, LA | Cajundome | ||
| February 26 | Jacksonville, FL | Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena | ||
| March 1* | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena | ||
| March 3 | State College, PA | Bryce Jordan Center | ||
| March 4* | Hartford, CT | XL Center | ||
| March 8 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre | ||
| March 9* | Quebec, QC | Videotron Centre | ||
| March 12* | Toronto, ON | Scotiabank Arena | ||
| March 13 | Ottawa, ON | Canadian Tire Centre | ||
| March 16 | Buffalo, NY | KeyBank Center | ||
| March 17 | Atlantic City, NJ | Boardwalk Hall | ||
| March 20 | Champaign, IL | State Farm Center | ||
| March 21 | Moline, IL | Vibrant Arena at The MARK | ||
| March 24 | Sioux Falls, SD | Denny Sanford PREMIER Center | ||
| March 25 | Lincoln, NE | Pinnacle Bank Arena | ||
| March 28 | Des Moines, IA | Wells Fargo Arena | ||
| March 31 | Tulsa, OK | BOK Center | ||
| April 1 | Memphis, TN | FedExForum | ||
| April 4 | San Antonio, TX | AT&T Center | ||
| April 7 | Springfield, MO | Great Southern Bank Arena | ||
| April 8 | Wichita, KS | INTRUST Bank Arena | ||
| April 11 | Casper, WY | Ford Wyoming Center | ||
| April 13 | Boise, ID | ExtraMile Arena | ||
| April 14 | Spokane, WA | Spokane Arena | ||
| April 17 | Eugene, OR | Matthew Knight Arena | ||
| April 19 | Stockton, CA | Stockton Arena | ||
| April 22 | Bakersfield, CA | Mechanics Bank Arena | ||
| April 23 | Fresno, CA | SaveMart Center | ||
| April 25 | Palm Springs, CA | Acrisure Arena | ||
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JOURNEY
Since the band’s formation in 1973, JOURNEY has released 19 Top 40 hits as well as 25 gold and platinum albums, selling more than 100 million records worldwide. The band’s album “Greatest Hits” is certified 15 times platinum, making JOURNEY one of the only bands to have a diamond-certified record to its credit, and the song “Don’t Stop Believin'” has been streamed more than a billion times.
JOURNEY was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017, and in 2018, their tour with DEF LEPPARD was the band’s most popular to date, ending up in the Top 10 most popular tours of the year thanks to over one million tickets sold. The band received Billboard’s “Legends Of Live” award. In March 2019, “Escape & Frontiers Live In Japan” was released, a live DVD/CD recorded at the Budokan in Tokyo. JOURNEY also received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame. In addition, the band is the subject of the documentary “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey” about its revival since the addition of Arnel Pineda as lead singer after JOURNEY founding member Neal Schon discovered the Filipino native on YouTube.
TOTO has achieved a rare feat for a group in the modern era. The group has accumulated more than 3 billion streams, including “Africa”, which has been listened to more than a billion times on Spotify. This year, the song was certified 8X platinum by the RIAA.
Over the past decade, the band has seen a resurgence in popularity and its audience is now multigenerational, with more and more young fans every year. Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams are joined by bassist John Pierce (Huey Lewis and The News), drummer Robert “Sput” Searight (Ghost-Note, founding member of Snarky Puppy, Snoop Dogg), keyboardist Dominique “Xavier” Taplin (Prince, Ghost-Note), multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Warren Ham (Ringo Starr) and keyboardist/backing vocalist Steve Maggiora. This line-up is the 15th incarnation of TOTO. Individually and collectively, few musicians have left their mark on popular culture as TOTO members. They can be heard on 5,000 albums of which one billion copies have been sold, and they have received hundreds of Grammy nominations.
Together for more than 45 years, having collaborated on the most popular album of all time (Michael Jackson’s Thriller ), TOTO remains one of the best-selling bands in the world. The band influenced many other artists and was synonymous with musical credibility. It is one of the only groups from the 1970s that has survived changing fashions and trends and is still relevant.
