Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop, a San Diego native, on Friday announced that will launch his farewell tour in March. The 14-city trek will conclude its U.S. leg with a concert next summer in his hometown, followed by concerts in Dublin and London. He has not toured since prior to the 2020 pandemic shutdown.<\/p>\n
Stephen Bishop reflects on 40 years of music<\/a><\/p>\n The tour opens March 13 in Phoenix. The San Diego concert will take place Aug. 21 at downtown\u2019s Balboa Theater. David Wilcox will be the opening act for all dates on the tour. An announcement of more shows and cities is pending.<\/p>\n Bishop\u2019s final tour follows the recent release of the 50th anniversary of his 1976 debut album, \u201cCareless,\u201d which contained his two breakthrough hits \u201cSave It For A Rainy Day\u201d and \u201cOn and On.\u201d The album featured guest performances by Art Garfunkel, Chaka Khan and Eric Clapton, a longtime Bishop friend and collaborator.<\/p>\n Bishop, 74, has kept a low profile in recent years, in part because of health issues. His memoir was released in 2022.<\/p>\n Stephen Bishop reflects on his life in music in \u2018On and Off,\u2019 an autobiography with a dramatic twist<\/a><\/p>\n Tickets for Bishop\u2019s farewell tour, including his Balboa Theater concert, go on sale at 10 a.m. today, Friday, Oct. 9, at Ticketmaster<\/a>. A list of all the tour dates is online at stephenbishop.com\/tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop, a San Diego native, on Friday announced that will launch his farewell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[967,181,6682,74,76,75,420],"class_list":["post-490536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}