'Life Is a Carnival,' a tribute tour to the Band, features Ryan Bingham, Jamey Johnson, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Don Was, John Medeski, and more.
Original members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell will join a tribute tour to the Band titled"Life Is a Carnival: Last Waltz Tour '24."coming to Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Oct. 17 won’t be just a one-off event. Two days later, the, Don Was, John Medeski, Dave Malone, Terence Higgins, Cyril Neville, and Mark Mullins & he Levee Horns.
The tour begins Oct. 19 at the Warfield in San Francisco, just a mile and a half from the Winterland Ballroom wheregave its original “Last Waltz” 48 years ago. It crisscrosses North America over the next month, wrapping up Nov. 16 at Meridian Hall in Toronto, Ontario. Blackbirds Presents is promoting the tour. They’ve staged several Last Waltz tours over the past decade with lineups that included Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Don Was, Michael McDonald, Dr. John. Garth Hudson, now the last surviving member of the Band, was a special guest on the 2016 tour.
This year’s Last Waltz tour reunites Campbell and Tench on the road. They played together on several one-off occasions, most notably at Farm Aid in 2023 when they backed Bob Dylan, but they’ve resisted the opportunity to reform the Heartbreakers with guest singers.. “Nobody can fill those shoes. I can’t fill them and I don’t know anybody else that I would want to fill them.”
Campbell slightly softened his stance earlier this year when he said the idea of a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 50th anniversary tour in 2026 has been floated. “The management said that if we did it, we’d get the original band back together, have some guest singers, and maybe just do a couple of shows,”“But then I always throw my hands up and go, ‘I can’t think about that. I’m not ready to go back and do that.’ And I don’t want to do anything to dishonor the legacy.
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