{"id":286756,"date":"2025-11-12T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:45:09","slug":"ex-yes-singer-jon-anderson-announces-2026-tour-leg-with-backing-group-the-band-geeks-new-album-due-out-later-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286756\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Yes Singer Jon Anderson Announces 2026 Tour Leg with Backing Group The Band Geeks; New Album Due Out Later Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founding <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yes<\/a> frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/jon-anderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jon Anderson<\/a> has unveiled plans to return to the road next year with his current backing group The Band Geeks. The 81-year-old Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ4pZZGjmXM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced the first leg of a planned 2026 tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spring outing, a continuation of Anderson and The Band Geeks\u2019 \u201cYES Epics, Classics, and More\u201d trek, kicks off on April 17 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and runs through a May 7 performance in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan. The tour also will stop at venues in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The trek will include a second concert in Ridgefield as well as a two-date stand, April 30 and May 2, in the Philadelphia suburb of Landsdowne, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101ljfZw\/pubref:Jon%20Anderson\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fjon-anderson-the-band-geeks-tickets%2Fperformer%2F150531322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">[GET TICKETS TO SEE JON ANDERSON AND THE BAND GEEKS LIVE]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the prog-rock legend\u2019s previous tours with The Band Geeks, the new trek will feature Yes classics and deep cuts, as well as selections from Jon\u2019s acclaimed 2024 studio album, True.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Anderson and The Band Geeks currently are in pre-production for their second studio album together. The follow-up to True is expected to be released sometime during the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More About The Band Geeks and Jon Anderson\u2019s History with the Group<\/p>\n<p>Anderson first hooked up with The Band Geeks for a 2023 tour. The group is a collective of talented musicians, led by longtime Blue \u00d6yster Cult bassist Richie Castellano, who had been posting videos of them covering various classic-rock songs over the course of several years. Anderson told American Songwriter that he became aware of The Band Geeks after his friend John Amick of SiriusXM satellite radio showed him a YouTube video of them performing the Yes classic \u201cHeart of the Sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Anderson and The Band Geeks wrapped up their 2023 trek, they hit the studio to work on what became the True album.<\/p>\n<p>Released in August 2024, True was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Castellano.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson and The Band Geeks also released a live album and concert video titled Live \u2013 Perpetual Change in March 2025. The audio and video collection was recorded in August 2023 at a show at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Live \u2013 Perpetual Change was released as a CD\/DVD set, a triple-LP vinyl package, and a Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>The album and video feature performances of 10 Yes songs, including such well-known tunes as \u201cYours Is No Disgrace,\u201d \u201cHeart of the Sunrise,\u201d \u201cAnd You and I,\u201d \u201cRoundabout\u201d and the aforementioned \u201cYour Move\/I\u2019ve Seen All Good People.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks\u2019 2026 Tour Dates:<\/p>\n<p>April 17 \u2013 Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse<br \/>April 19 \u2013 Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse<br \/>April 21 \u2013 Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre<br \/>April 23 \u2013 Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre<br \/>April 26 \u2013 Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center Theater<br \/>April 28 \u2013 Hershey, PA @ Hershey Theater<br \/>April 30 \u2013 Landsdowne, PA @ Landsdowne Theater<br \/>May 2 \u2013 Landsdowne, PA @ Landsdowne Theater<br \/>May 5 \u2013 Troy, NY @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall<br \/>May 7 \u2013 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Kevin Nixon\/Classic Rock Magazine\/Future via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founding Yes frontman Jon Anderson has unveiled plans to return to the road next year with his current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,151005,216,2156],"class_list":{"0":"post-286756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jon-anderson","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}