Stevie Nicks resumed her 2023 solo tour on Friday night, performing at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. COVID had temporarily sidelined the tour when an unnamed band member fell ill in March, forcing several shows to be canceled or postponed. Stevie last performed at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 18, 2023.
After opening with “Outside the Rain” and “Dreams,” Stevie welcomed the Raleigh crowd and revealed that she was “in bed for four weeks and I’m so happy to be up!” Healthy and well-rested, Stevie delivered a crowd-pleasing show, performing 18 songs from her vast Fleetwood Mac and solo catalog. She also covered Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'”.
Singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins opened for Stevie.
The solo tour moves on to Tennessee, where Stevie will perform at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville on Tuesday night.
Special thanks to Liz Baker, @BRStevieNicks, Alex Palero, SandyMac, and Sunday Girl for pictures, videos and recaps from the show.
Set List
1. Outside the Rain
2. Dreams
3. If Anyone Falls
“Welcome, Raleigh! Well, this is the first I’ve been onstage in a while. We managed to do three shows about two and half months ago, and then we ran into a little trouble and then we stopped, and then I was in bed for four weeks and now I’m up again, and I’m so happy to be here, and be up!
“So I wanna…I never make a dedication this close to the beginning, but I have to do it tonight because, okay, this is such a great story. In like, I don’t know, somewhere in beginning of the ’80s, mid-’80s, I met this amazing guy, who’s this amazing dancer, and me and all my girlfriends just adored him because when you dance with him it was like, it was like, I dont’ know, Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers, something so special, right? His name is Brad (Jeffries), he’s here tonight. Brad, where are you? At least, throw up your hand. (Sees Brad in the audience) Here’s right there!
“So anyway, Brad is dancing me in this next video, which, if you are a fan of ours, you’ve seen this video. But we chose parts of it for our backstage, for our video wall. And so you’ll see him and it’s my finest moment of ballet, my most fabulous moment of ballet. Anway, so it’s Brad and I dancing and you’ll see him, and this is “If Anyone Falls in Love.'”
4. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
5. Fall from Grace
6. For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield cover)
7. Gypsy
“This next song is from the ’70s. It’s from Fleetwood Mac, and I wrote it about a specific time, I think, at the end of the ’70s when I was like, really like, I got so famous so fast that it was like weird, and it was weird-ing me out a little bit to go from being a cleaning lady to a very famous person like overnight. So whenever that would happen, I would take my bed, my mattress off of my bed frame and put it on the floor like it used to be, and I put a bunch of coverlets on it and flowers and stuff, you know, and then I would just sit down on this bed and I would go like, ‘I am still Stevie.’ And I have to tell you after the last couple of weeks of my life that I’m still sort of like sitting on my bed on the floor. I’m glad to say that I definitely am still Stevie. So uh, then there was a song called ‘Gypsy.'”
8. Wild Heart
9. Bella Donna
— snbr | tour mood (@BRStevieNicks) May 13, 2023
10. Soldier’s Angel
11. Stand Back
12. I Sing for the Things
“So this next song was on… I’m not sure what album it was on. It was on one of the first three albums (Rock a Little), and it was never done onstage because when you do an album, especially in those days, you just get like 20 songs on your record to go down to like 12 songs or 11 songs. So there’s always gonna be a couple songs you really love that are just simply gonna have to go because you cannot…the record company will not have it. So this was one of those songs. And we decided where everything is right now that this is the perfect time to sing it for you now, so here it is. You know, if you remember it, great. If you don’t (inaudible) a song for you.”
13. Gold Dust Woman
14. Sara
15. Edge of Seventeen
ENCORE
16. Free Fallin’
17. Rhiannon
18. Landslide
I Sing for Things from last night pic.twitter.com/7OwmT3fBZy
— snbr | tour mood (@BRStevieNicks) May 13, 2023
Band
| Lead Vocals | Stevie Nicks |
| Guitar and Musical Director | Waddy Wachtel |
| Bass | Al Ortiz |
| Drums | Drew Hester |
| Guitar | Carlos Rios |
| Keyboards | Ricky Peterson |
| Keyboards | Darrell Smith |
| Background Vocals | Sharon Celani and Marilyn Martin |
