The past decade has been quite momentous for the two time Grammy Award ® winner Rita Coolidge. She recorded a critically and commercially acclaimed jazz album for Concord Records entitled ‘And So Is Love’, a live HD DVD and PBS Special, in conjunction with WHYY and HDNet TV, entitled ‘On Stage At World Café Live’, saw Universal Records release a 41 song retrospective of her four decade long career entitled ‘Delta Lady: The Rita Coolidge Anthology’ and she of course toured the world nearly non-stop. 

It’s no surprise then, that the next decade should start equally as strong. Rita and AIX Records are set to release a monumental audio/video recording, recorded live on stage. The recording, the first of its kind was recorded and filmed in 5.1 surround, high definition for Blu Ray and Panasonic 3D. The recording is a 14 song set of Memphis tinged material that has influenced Ms. Coolidge throughout her life and career. Also included are her hits “Higher & Higher” and “The Way You Do the Things You Do”. Other songs on the set include, ‘Shoo Ra’, ‘Brickyard Blues’, ‘People Get Ready’, ‘Can’t Stand The Rain’, ‘Take It To The Limit’ and many more. 

Joining Rita on stage for this special  recording are musical director & keyboards Jim Cox (Boz Scaggs), guitarists Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney & Wings) & Dean Parks (Madonna, Elton John, Steely Dan), drums Marvin “M.B.” Gordy (Doobie Brothers, Neil Diamond), bass Kevin Axt (Tierney Sutton), backing vocalists Oren, Maxine & Julia Waters (Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond), sax Brandon Fields (Tower of Power), trumpet Lee Thornburg (Supertramp, Tower of Power). 

Rita joined Delaney and Bonnie’s band and thus began a storied career in Rock N Roll that led to a solo career and stardom. In the summer of 1969, Rita was tapped to Join Joe Cocker and Leon Russell’s “Mad Dogs And Englishmen” tour. Cocker and Russell were so taken by her that she was aptly given the name ‘Delta Lady’ and Russell wrote a song of the same name in her honor. Rita recorded 15 albums spanning two decades (Your Love Has Taken Me) Higher & Higher, Superstar; We’re All Alone, The Way You Do The Things You Do and sang “All Time High”, the theme for the James Bond film Octopussy. 

During the 1970’s Rita married songwriter and film star Kris Kristofferson, together the duo won two Grammy Awards ® and recorded three hit albums; “Full Moon”, “Breakaway” and “Natural Act”. Rita appeared with Barbara Streisand in the Academy Award ® winning film “A Star Is Born”. Rita has also had on screen roles in “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” and “Vanishing Point” amongst many others. 

Rita has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine as well as such prime time TV shows as Saturday Night Live, The Flip Wilson Show, Midnight Special, Donny & Marie, The Captain & Tenille Show, The Dean Martin Show, Sally Jesse Raphael, The Sonny & Cher Show, Sesame Street, The Merv Griffin Show, Bill Maher, Havana Jam 1979. Rita was one of the original VJ’s on VH1 when it debuted in the 1980’s. Stephen Stills wrote the songs ‘Cherokee’, ‘The Raven’ and ‘Sugar Babe’ while Leon Russell wrote the songs ‘Delta Lady’, ‘A Song for You’ and ‘Hummingbird’ in Rita’s honor. 

Rita has recorded and performed with such luminary artists as, Aaron Neville, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Roger Waters, Jimmy Buffet, Boz Scaggs, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Ray Charles, Brenda Russell, Carly Simon, Lee Greenwood, Willie Nelson, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Harry Chapin and the list goes on and on. 

Rita Coolidge is the stuff of legend and her career the envy of every artist that dreams of success and longevity and she remains today one of Rock and Pop’s most admired singers. 

You may visit Rita at: www.ritacoolidge.com

TICKET PRICE:  $27–$67