Nationwide — Critically acclaimed a cappella group and social justice champions, Candy Honey In The Rock, proudly announce new tour dates for the autumn and spring of 2025 in commemoration of their 50 Years and Past Tour.
Since its inception in Washington D.C. in 1973, Candy Honey In The Rock has thrived as a efficiency ensemble based on the missions of empowerment, training, and leisure. The present ensemble options vocalists Carol Maillard and Louise Robinson — each unique members of the group, together with Nitanju Bolade Casel, Aisha Kahlil, and Rochelle Rice; Romeir Mendez, bass, and Barbara Hunt, American Signal Language interpreter.
The Grammy-nominated act celebrated its fiftieth Anniversary in 2023 and appears to set the course for the way forward for the group by asserting their upcoming tour for 2024 & 2025: Celebrating 50 Years and Past. Having been not too long ago signed to the celebrated Kurland Company, a reserving company recognized for his or her high-profile shoppers comparable to Wynton Marsalis, Take 6, and Sonny Rollins, Candy Honey has introduced over 30 new tour dates beginning in October 2024 within the UK and can conclude with a efficiency in Toronto, Canada in April 2025.
Though there’s actually trigger for celebration, 2024 additionally noticed the passing of Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of many 4 founding members of Candy Honey within the Rock. Bernice served as a prolific composer and the ensemble’s inventive director for 30 years from the band’s inception till 2004. As an outspoken member of the Scholar Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, her dedication to social justice and equality is infused within the music, spirit, and beliefs of Candy Honey within the Rock. As they transfer ahead and look towards the longer term, Candy Honey within the Rock does so in remembrance of their beloved mentor and with a dedication to honor her life and legacy.
“After we began the group again in 1973, we have been excited to share the musical types and that Bernice was instructing and our vocal workshops on the DC Black Repertory Theater. We had no concept that we’d have the ability to proceed for 50 years. We’re grateful to all the ladies who made it doable for there to be a band named Candy Honey In The Rock on this planet. Now greater than ever, the music and messages are shifting into our having the ability to have a good time 50 years and past,” states Carol Maillard, one of many founding members of the band. Candy Honey In The Rock is a renewed dedication to lifting up these in want, enlightening and provoking audiences of all ages to take a stand in opposition to injustice.
As a band with a wealthy historical past of worldwide performances, Candy Honey within the Rock is thrilled to as soon as once more unfold their message to an abroad viewers. For the primary time since 2013, the ensemble can be performing twice in the UK. Kicking off the 50 and Past tour, they may carry out at Llais, Cardiff’s Worldwide Arts Competition, on October twelfth on the Wales Millennium Centre and can seem on the Barbican in London on October thirteenth.
Candy Honey In The Rock may also carry out 3 particular dates in late October and early November with legendary singer-songwriter Rickee Lee Jones in Evanston IL, Nashville TN, and Buffalo NY.
Fittingly, the band has booked six dates commemorating their annual “Holy Days” live performance performances later this yr with 4 performances slated at Blues Alley in Washington, DC on December 14th and fifteenth, a efficiency in Northridge, CA on the nineteenth; and wrap up the yr with an look in Wickenburg, AZ on December twentieth. Tickets at the moment are on sale for all exhibits.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK TOUR DATES:
2024
10/12/24 – Cardiff UK – Wales Millenium Centre
10/13/24 – London UK – The Barican
10/18 & 10/19 – Winchester VA – Armstrong Live performance Corridor
10/27/24 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Annenberg Middle for the Performing Arts
10/30/24 – Evanston IL – Area (Showing with Rickee Lee Jones)
11/1/24 – Nashville, TN – Brown County Music Middle (Showing with Rickee Lee Jones)
11/2/24 – Buffalo NY – UB Middle For The Arts (Showing with Rickee Lee Jones)
11/3/24 – Poughkeepsie NY – The Bardavon
11/12/24 – Phoenix AZ – Museum Instrument Museum
11/14-11/17, 2024 – San Francisco, California – SF Jazz Middle
11/18/24 – Santa Cruz CA – Rio Theatre
12/14 & 12/15 – Washington DC – Blues Alley (Holy Days Live performance)
12/19/24 – Northridge CA –The Soraya (Holy Days Live performance)
12/20/24 – Wickenburg AZ – Del E. Webb Middle (Holy Days Live performance)
2025
1/23/25 – Baton Rouge LA – Manship Theatre
1/24/25 – Memphis TN – Halloran Centre on the Orpheum
1/25/25 – Atlanta GA – Rialto Middle For The Arts at Georgia State College
2/14/25 – Austin TX – Bass Live performance Corridor
2/21/25 – Boise ID – Morrison Middle
2/26/25 – Fort Collins CO – The Lincoln Middle
2/28/25 – Boulder CO – Macky Auditorium Live performance Corridor
3/1/25 – Lone Tree CO – Lone Tree Arts Middle
4/1/25 – Toronto ON – Meridian Arts Centre (Showing with Kaia Kater)
For extra info on Candy Honey In The Rock, please go to SweetHoneyintheRock.org
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For press inquiries, contact Chip Schutzman – Miles Excessive Productions at 323-806-0400 or chip@mileshighproductions.com
Upcoming Dates
October 12 • Cardiff, Wales, UK
October 13 • London, England, UK
October 18 • Winchester, VA
October 19 • Winchester, VA
October 27 • Philadelphia, PA
October 30 • Evanston, IL w/ Rickie Lee Jones
November 01 • Nashville, IN w/ Rickie Lee Jones
November 02 • Buffalo, NY* w/ Rickie Lee Jones
November 03 • Poughkeepsie, NY*
November 12 • Phoenix, AZ
November 14 • San Francisco, CA
November 15 • San Francisco, CA
November 16 • San Francisco, CA
November 17 • San Francisco, CA
November 18 • Santa Cruz, CA*
December 14 • Washington DC
December 15 • Washington DC
December 19 • Northridge, CA
December 20 • Wickenburg, AZ*
January 23, 2025 • Baton Rouge, LA*
January 24, 2025 • Memphis, TN*
January 25, 2025 • Atlanta, GA*
February 6, 2025 • Elyria, OH*
February 7, 2025 • Elyria, OH*
February 13, 2025 • Austin, TX*
February 14, 2025 • Austin, TX*
February 21, 2025 • Boise, ID*
February 26, 2025 • Fort Collins, CO
February 28, 2025 • Boulder, CO
March 1, 2025 • Lone Tree, CO
April 4, 2025 • Toronto, ON
*Tickets not but obtainable
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