Tickets are priced at £40 & £45 and are available from: 0843 221 0100 / www.hmv.com

Tickets on sale from 9:00a.m. Friday, May 4th.

https://www.facebook.com/robertplant/posts/398891190145397

Tickets on sale at 10 am, Friday April 20. (Maximum 4 per applicant).
Gloucester Guildhall box office: 01452 503 050

www.gigsandtours.com/tour/Robert-Plant-Presents-Sensational-Space-Shifters

24hr CC Hotline: 0844 811 0051

Concluding a busy weekend in Clarksdale in preparation for their performances at the free Sunflower River Blues Festival’s 25th anniversary August 10-11-12, celebrity musicians Robert Plant and Patty Griffin enjoy services and gospel music at Liberty Baptist Church in Lyon.

Panny Mayfield, publicist

http://www.sunflowerfest.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=89

The Austin Music Hall only holds a few thousand and it’s been a long time since the Boss played to a crowd that small in Austin, but you can be sure most of Austin will claim to have been there.

The buzz stared early and those in the know tweeted out “something special will happen.” And still, some in the crowd, probably the non-social media savvy, left early.

Those who stayed got a rare treat.

Robert Plant was in the house. Maybe to see Carolyn Wonderland and Ruthie Foster play a feverish set together, starting with a Janis Joplin tune. Or maybe to see Alejandro Escovedo and friends.

Yeah, maybe. But the rest of the house, those who felt the buzz, they were staying for something else.

Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely are friends. They’ve been playing in Austin, although rarely together, for over 30 years. And they have a mutual friend in Bruce Springsteen who has invited both to play on tour and onstage in Austin and around the world. Wednesday night he paid back big, playing guitar and singing on six songs, all from Escovedo and Ely.

The Austin Music Awards celebrated their 30th Anniversary with a show that will not soon be forgotten and SXSW Music jump started with star power.

http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-15-12-01-20-the-boss-and-robert-plant-buzz-the-austin-music-awards-springsteen-takes-charge/

Robert Plant is being featured in a new exhibit at Graceland!

His “Nurses Do It Better” t-shirt and pants are on display at the new ICON: The Influence of Elvis Presley Exhibit, which opened March 1 at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis!

Click here for more details: http://elvis.ly/9t3rv

“This is spectacular news,” said Melville Tillis, longtime festival co-chairman. “We have been in dialogue with Robert Plant for several months, and are thrilled he will be here.”

The festival will be held Aug. 10-12 in Clarksdale and will feature more than 40 bands over the course of the three-day event.

Plant, a blues historian, who recorded “Walking Into Clarksdale” with Jimmy Page in 1999, has visited Clarksdale numerous times, and personally funded Mississippi Heritage Blues Trail Marker unveiled on Thanksgiving Eve 2009 honoring Tutwiler as the Birthplace of Blues. He also presented the Delta Blues Museum with a custom-designed plaque composed of miniature Led Zeppelin album covers and an engraved tribute to Delta blues musicians who influenced the famous rock band.

Performing on stage with Plant will be Grammy-winning vocalist Patty Griffin, West African virtuoso musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Justin Adams and Bill Fuller, keyboardist John Baggott and drummer Dave Smith.

He will join multiple Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Musselwhite and blues great Bobby Rush, both of whom have headlined the festival several times.

Not only were Clarksdale and Coahoma County the home of early bluesmen W. C. Handy, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Charley Patton, it was the stomping grounds of Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker, Ike and Tina Turner, Big Jack Johnson, and dozens more. The first Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival was held in 1988. Headlining the first festival were Otis Rush and Son Thomas.

Staged entirely by volunteers, the festival has been free and open to the public since it was established

For updates, visit the festival website: www.sunflowerfest.org

May 8th, 2012 – Guildhall, Gloucester

July 12 – HMV Forum, London
Tickets: 0843 221 0100 / www.hmv.com

July 27 – 29: Womad Festival – Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
(July 29th) Schedule TBA
www.womad.co.uk

Aug. 10-11-12, 2012 – Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival
Clarksdale, MS  – www.sunflowerfest.org

Robert Plant and his new band the Sensational Space Shifters will make their live debut as headliners of this year’s Womad, as the festival celebrates its 30th anniversary. The group comprising the former Led Zeppelin frontman, members of his former backing band Strange Sensation and regular collaborator Justin Adams say they draw inspiration “from the roots music of Mississippi, Appalachia, Gambia, Bristol and the foothills of Wolverhampton”.

The first Womad – an acronymn for World of Music, Arts and Dance – was conceived by Genesis singer Peter Gabriel, and took place at the Royal Bath & West showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1982. The first bill featured Echo & the Bunnymen, the Drummers of Burundi, Don Cherry, Simple Minds, Suns of Arqa and the Chieftans.

Over the intervening 30 years, the organisation has hosted festivals across the globe, from Sicily to Seattle, Adelaide to Abu Dhabi. For the sixth time, its flagship UK festival will be at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

The 2012 lineup will also include Indian breakthrough star Raghu Dixit, the Buena Vista Social Club, French collective Lo’Jo, “funk orchestra” Grupo Fantasma and the Alaev Family from Tajikistan, with many more acts to be announced. Last year’s event saw performances from Baaba Maal, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Fatoumata Diawara and more.

Womad takes place at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 27–29 July.

http://womad.co.uk/