On Thursday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, FL — the 41st show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Due to illness, Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders did not perform at tonight’s show.
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Thanks and much love to Michelle Guthrie, Jack Magazine, Fran Ruchalski, and THE YANCE for sharing these photos.
On Friday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH — the 38th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Stevie wished everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day by sharing a photo and special message that were projected on the large screen at the back of the stage (see below).
Thanks and much love to Ann Johnston, Steve Mack, Nationwide Arena, Neil Shumate (Out of the Blue Magazine), and Jack Westerheide (slideshow photos) for sharing these pictures.
“Nicks has taken the opportunity to focus on a selection of her material deeper than just the hits and, more importantly, to tell the stories behind most of them. It was, perhaps, too much information.”
“Stevie Nicks is exactly what I wanted her to be, but I know she doesn’t care what anyone wants her to be. When the 68-year-old rock star took the stage at Nationwide Arena on Friday night, clad in a black lace dress and crazy-tall boots with a tambourine in hand, I knew it was going to be a night to remember.”
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Awe 😘 Went to Columbus yesterday w oldest daughter & saw Stevie Nicks & The Pretenders last night. It was AMAZING! pic.twitter.com/pX7M88Pqpz
Stevie Nicks is scheduled to perform two shows at the Ravinia Festival on Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September, 10, according to the official Ravinia website. Tickets for the 2017 season go on sale to the public on May 9, but donors to the festival can start purchasing tickets on March 22. Click here for information about buying tickets.
Ravinia is an open-air pavilion seating 3,200, located in Highland Park, IL, an affluent suburb of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Tickets: $200 / $190 Lawn: $70**
**Lawn ticket price increases by $5 on the day of the performance.
Ravinia – General Information
Ravinia, North America’s oldest music festival, stands today as its most musically diverse, presenting over 140 different events throughout the summer. These concerts run the gamut from Yo-Yo Ma to John Legend to the annual summer residency of the nation’s finest orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The 36-acre park is nestled in a gently wooded area that makes it an enchanting place to experience music. Guests can bring their own picnics or eat at one of the park restaurants. Children up to age 15, high school and college students are admitted free to the lawn for classical performances.
Our Mission
As a nonprofit organization, community outreach and music education initiatives are our mission. Over 75,000 people are served through Ravinia’s Reach*Teach*Play programs each year, ensuring that great music remains accessible to all.
Ravinia runs the Steans Music Institute on its grounds. This summer music conservatory awards 60-70 fully paid fellowships each year to the most talented young professional musicians from around the world to work with an esteemed faculty and the headliners who frequent the festival.
On Wednesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans — the 37th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Stevie returned to the “city of dreams,” where performing her Hurricane-Katrina-inspired-song “New Orleans” obviously took on a special meaning.
Thanks and much love to Rhonda Johnson, Jason D, and Amalea Summers, Genevieve Williams for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Amalea Summers)
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Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Jason D)
New Orleans (Jason D)
New Orleans (Rhonda Johnson)
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Stand Back (Jason D)
Edge of Seventeen (Jason D)
Edge of Seventeen (Genevieve Williams)
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Rhiannon (Genevieve Williams)
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Landslide (Jason D)
“Thank you. That’s another one of the songs that’s always played at my show. And every once in a while I do actually say to each of the band members, ‘Can we just not do ‘Rhiannon’ this time?’ And they’re like [gasps]! Never works.
So this song, this song we’re gonna do now, was written in Aspen, Colorado in 1973. I was there in the winter in the frozen tundra, and Lindsey had gone to be the other half of the Everly Brothers because Wally actually couldn’t go, so Lindsey got the job instead. Right? So they didn’t need an Everly sister. They didn’t, so I got dumped in the snow in Aspen and I took my best friend Terry with me because I knew I was gonna be up there by myself, and I wasn’t gonna be up there by myself.
So Terry and I ended up at this horrible apartment with this horrible fisherman guy who lived upstairs, and it was not going to be a good thing. So we were there like one day and said, ‘No!’ So we packed up our stuff and we like kind of put everything back in — you guessed it — the Toyota, which wasn’t moving then either ’cause it was stuck in the snow and it had no reverse. So we just met some really nice people and they…it’s some really nice guys…it’s not what you might think at all. It was totally above… They gave us one of their three bedrooms and so we had a really nice play to stay for the entire time that Lindsey was gone. And so anyway, one night they knew people there because they lived there. They said, ‘We’re gonna go to dinner with these great people so why don’t you guys come with us?’ So we did and they had this beautiful house, this beautiful living room, and this beautiful view and I said, ‘Can I just not go with you to dinner and just stay, sit here on the floor, and look out at this, and write a song?’ And they, ‘Of course you can!’ And so they left and I had my Goya, my little classical Goya guitar and I sat and I wrote this little song.
Never in a million years did I think — once back to having your dreams coming true — never in a million years did I think that this little song that I could play on the guitar would be the song that basically took us to the top. And not only that, but it has been off and on for several many years the favorite Super Bowl commercial song. So keep it in mind that one little tiny thing can change everything. So this little song is called ‘Landslide.’”
On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX — the 36th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. It was a lively weekend in Austin, as music revelers were also in town for the vibrant SXSW Conference & Festival. “Well, what a trip to be here during South by Southwest!” Stevie told the audience at the start of the show. Drummer Mick Fleetwood, who also in town for SXSW, was also at Stevie’s show.
Stevie visited the Lone Star State earlier in the tour, making stops in Houston (10/29) and Dallas (10/30).
Thanks and much love to atexas, Cody Bruce, daisy hayz, Lacey Monceaux, NickAguero512, and Shelly A for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Shelly A)
Greetings from Austin, TX! (Lacey Monceaux)
“I’d like to tell you a little story of this show. It’s not exactly the same Stevie Nicks show you’ve seen over the last 300,000 years. It’s different because I decided that at my age I was going to put together a show that has the songs in it that I love to sing and have never sung onstage before. So I went back through my many, many magical trunks of the lost songs, I call ’em, and pulled out my favorites and I put this little tapestry thing together, and I hope you enjoy it because it’s a lot of fun for me, it’s very, very creative. And anyway, it is a trip and it is a journey, so come with me! Let’s go!”
“Since Nicks drove, the arena had no choice – and happily so. 2014’s 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault prompted the platinum maker’s tour through solo output beginning with 1981 bow Bella Donna. If anyone came to hear mostly Fleetwood Mac songs, you couldn’t tell.”
“This concert was all about playing to die-hard fans of both bands, beyond the scope of music industry connections. When Nicks last visited Austin with Fleetwood Mac two years ago, she and the band addressed the crowd with a sense of finality, knowing it might well be the last time those five members would play together in Austin. But that didn’t mean Nicks wouldn’t come back on her own.”
Thanks and much love to @sadxhoe, Ashley Collins, KTBS, and Sheri Scott Phillips for sharing these photos.
(KTBS)(Sheri Scott Phillips)@sadxhoe(Ashley Collins)(Ashley Collins)
Videos
Thanks and much love to Ashley Collins, Scott Doucet, Chris Hemingway, Debra Lusk Johnson, Christina Martisek, Erin McCarty, and Kelli O’Neil for sharing these videos.
Gypsy – partial (Scott Doucet)
Bella Donna – partial (Ashley Collins)
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Belle Fleur (Debra Lusk Johnson)
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It’s like, ‘We’re in the money…’ It’s so great! But we would get picked up in a long, big, black, shiny limousine. And we also got a first-class ticket for a couple of places we flew off to do some press. This just killed me because I was so used to that Toyota and I was so used to living in that other world. Then all of a sudden, it was just like…it was, it was frightening almost. So anyway, what happened was, with the limousine, it started to become a thing that came to take me away — beautiful and grand and expensive and famous — but it was pulling up to my house to take me away. And if I had a boyfriend, it was goodbye and the relationship was basically over. So that started to stand for that. And as much as loved the limousine, it was kind of a sad thing. So I wrote this song about it because I thought, well, we should put… There’s the good and there’s the bad — it’s about being a famous rock star. So this song was written about that picture in my head of walking away from my house and waving goodbye to somebody and knowing that was probably it, until I found something else (lauging), which was never very long, so anyway. So anyway, the song’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’
New Orleans – partial (Christina Martisek)
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You need to write this stuff down. I’m like a reporter, I chronicle stuff, I’m an archivist — I think that’s the right word. And I don’t want people to forget, and I think people do forget. If you don’t write stuff down, it’s gonna just…time’s gonna just make it fade. So I continue to watch television every day for a couple of days. I wrote this poem, and I had to be very careful with what I was writing because you can’t, you know, you can’t… It was gonna be bad. We knew it, I knew it, we all knew it. So I had to write something that was somehow hopeful and somehow uplifting because otherwise in 10 years all the people from New Orleans will say, ‘Well gee, thanks for writing that horrible, horrific dirge about our city.’ And I’m like…so you’re going like, ‘I don’t want that so I have to figure out a way to look at this from another way.’ So I thought, OK if I was…if I had a magic wand, what would I do? I would make sure that most of the dogs that were in the water were saved; most of the people were pulled out of the water; most of the houses were rebuilt; the government slowly came in and did something…slowly; and people survived and they rebuilt their city; and they made this amazing, new, beautiful city — this quirky, unique, weird city. They brought it back because that’s what they’re gonna do, and that’s what I’m gonna write about. They say, you know, if you paint the picture, it will come true. Or if you build a field, they will come. So that’s what I tried to do with it. So anyway, we’re gonna play it for you now and it’s called new Orleans.
Twilight (A Vampire’s Dream)
Thank you. That song is probably my favorite song that I’ve written in a very long time. Just to make it short because this story is just way to long. It’s about vampires, which we know don’t really exist, but they do in the Twilight saga. And so I fell in love with that relationship between Bella and Edward, and it just took my heart, and I went straight to the piano, and I wrote this song in Australia, and I said, ‘Well, I guess I’m gonna have to make a record now because I can’t just put this one song out. So I went into the studio and made In Your Dreams and kind of walked back into the recording part of this business. The Internet had just driven me away because it was so…you know, you can’t sell anything. Who cares! I’m financially stable — it wasn’t that. It’s just the principle of it. But now, I don’t care because I can just go and make records and put ’em out and have a great time and then go back into the… It’s fine. So anyway, that is the story of Bella and Edward. So thank you and otherwise, we’re just leave them up in the twilight.
Gold Dust Woman – partial (Scott Doucet)
Edge of Seventeen (Chris Hemingway)
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Landslide (Erin McCarty)
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Landslide (Kelli O’Neil)
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… I had my Goya with me — that’s a little classical guitar. And they said, ‘Sure!’ So I spent a couple of hours there by myself, and I wrote this little song. Once again, I was just a little girl, and this little song took us all to the top. So sitting cross-legged in fringe jeans and thinking, well, it’s a cool song, I love it, and I’m happy, and off I go to the rest of my life. Never did I have any idea that this song would do what it did, besides like being the favorite Super Bowl commercial. It’s like so many things, you know? And so I just want you to keep that in your heart and remember that — the little, tiny song, little tiny dream, ah…poof! So this is ‘Landslide,’ that little song.
At age 68, Stevie Nicks still commands the stage and can deliver quite a show. It’s very obvious from the beginning of her show at the Century Link Center, she was going to do her own kind of show, not the typical Stevie Nicks show. She told the crowd “come enjoy the journey with me.” Read the full review.
Stevie Nicks appears in the March 23, 2017 issue of Rolling Stone (RS1283). She is featured in “The Last Word,” a Q&A column on page 58 of the magazine. Here is an exclusive transcript of the feature.
The Last Word: Stevie Nicks
The singer on approaching 70, what she learned battling Klonopin, and when she’ll be back with Fleetwood Mac
What’s the hardest part of success?
I work very, very hard. I have a piece of typewritten paper here that says, “You keep going and you don’t stop.” You do your vocal lesson. I have a lot of friends from high school and college who want to hang out when I play in their city. I have to rest for my show. It breaks my heart, but what comes first? Don’t endanger my show. That’s been my mantra my whole life: Don’t endanger my show.
Who is your hero?
Michelle Obama, because she has such an optimistic outlook and she was able to move into the White House with kids and do such a beautiful, graceful job. That had to be really hard. After spending two weeks with my family for the holidays, which was long and emotionally difficult, I know that’s superhard. I think she’s wisdom personified.
What advice would you give to your younger self?
How about my early-forties self? That’s when I walked out of Betty Ford after beating coke. I spent two months doing so well. But all my business managers and everyone were urging me to go to this guy who was supposedly the darling of the psychiatrists. That was the guy who put me on Klonopin. This is the man who made me go from 123 pounds to almost 170 pounds at five feet two. He stole eight years of my life.
Maybe I would have gotten married, maybe I would have had a baby, maybe I would have made three or four more great albums with Fleetwood Mac. That was the prime of my life, and he stole it. And you know why? Because I went along with what everybody else thought. So what I would tell my 40-year-old self: “Don’t listen to other people. In your heart of hearts, you know what’s best for you.”
What do you understand about men that you didn’t understand in your twenties?
I understood men pretty well in my twenties. Lindsey [Buckingham] and I lived together like married people. I had one girlfriend in Los Angeles in those years, so I really had a lot of different types of men in my life that I really got to know and respect.
I made a choice to not get married. After eight years of Klonopin, I was just gonna follow my muse, and if somebody came into my life, they would always end up being second. I wanted so badly to do what I’m doing right now.
What have 42 years as a member of Fleetwood Mac taught you about compromise?
A lot, because when you’re in a band you have to be part of the team. There’s something comforting about that. But in my solo career, I get to be the boss. Having both, for a Gemini like myself, is perfect. And I knew that in 1981: that me having a solo career would only make Fleetwood Mac better.
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie are about to release an album as a duo. It seems like it started as a Fleetwood Mac album, but you chose not to participate.
I’ve been on the road [solo] since last September, so I don’t understand their premise. Christine was gone [from Fleetwood Mac] for 16 years and came back, did a massive tour, and then it’s like, “Now I’m just gonna go back to London and sit in my castle for two years”? She wanted to keep working. I will be back with them at the end of the year for, I think, another tour. I just needed my two years off. Until then, I wish them the best in whatever they do.
Do you want to make a new record with them?
I don’t think we’ll do another record. If the music business were different, I might feel different. I don’t think there’s any reason to spend a year and an amazing amount of money on a record that, even if it has great things, isn’t going to sell. What we do is go on the road, do a ton of shows and make lots of money. We have a lot of fun. Making a record isn’t all that much fun.
How do you feel about turning 70 in two years?
I don’t like that number. I see lots of people my age, and lots of people who are younger than me, and I think, “Wow, those people look really old.” I think it’s because they didn’t try. If you want to stay young, you have to make an effort. If I wanna walk onstage in a short chiffon skirt and not look completely age-inappropriate, I have to make that happen. Or you just throw in the towel and let your hair turn white and look like a frumpy old woman. I’m never gonna go there.
Do you ever see yourself retiring?
I’ll never retire. My friend Doug Morris, who’s been president of, like, every record company, said to me once, “When you retire, you just get small.” Stand up straight, put on your heels, and get out there and do stuff. I want to do a miniseries for the stories of Rhiannon and the gods of Wales, which I think would be this fantastic thing, but I don’t have to retire from being a rock star to go and do that. I can fit it all in.
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone (RS1283) / March 23, 2017
I’m extremely happy to be here in your musical city that has so much history.”
On Wednesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN — the 34th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Wednesday also happened to be International Women’s Day (March 8), which celebrates and honors the significant contributions of women around the world. Accomplished female rock icons and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde couldn’t have been a more appropriate bill to represent the special day.
Wednesday night’s Memphis got off to a funny start when Stevie misaddressed the crowd. “Well…hello, Nashville!” she accidentally said, which received some playful boos from the audience. (Memphis is about 210 miles southwest of Nashville.) But Stevie quickly recovered by humming a few bars of singer Marc Cohn’s 1991 song “Walking in Memphis.” The forgiving Memphis fans cheered and applauded.
Does everybody that comes in here sing that to you?” I’m sure they do, but you just have to do it. You have to let us, for a minute, sink into your “Memphis-ness” You have to give us a little of your “Memphis-ness.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m so glad you’re here. You know that this is a very, very special city. This is on that list of cities, when you look at everything, it says Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Memphis, New York, and those are the ones. Those are the really important shows, and you come into that city knowing that, so I’m extremely happy to be here in your musical city that has so much history.
This set is not like most Stevie Nicks sets that you might have seen in the past. I decided this time to do something different. And I went back into my catalog to pull out old songs that were supposed to go on records that I loved and for whatever, you know, the producer didn’t do what I wanted or I let it go and didn’t say anything and it was too late and at the end I said, ‘Well, you know, I don’t like the way you recorded it so I’m taking it back.’ So a lot of these songs were my favorite songs, and I just said, ‘I’m gonna pull these songs out.’ So anyway, it’s a trip, it’s a journey, come with me. Let’s go!
Thanks and much love to 901 Music (slideshow photos), 104.5 The River (slideshow photos), Nikki Boertman/The Commercial Appeal (slideshow photos), Ruth L. Barnes, Mark Franks, David Helton, Alicia Howard, Raider Kelly, Angela Shuckahosee, and Laura Rowland Upchurch for sharing these photos.
Thanks and much love to bigconcertfan (Jason), Ruth L. Barnes, msflutegirl13, Rex Ragland, Anna-Marie Rooker, Barry Weinstein for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Anna-Marie Rooker)
End of Gold and Braid/Introduction (Ruth L. Barnes)
At the end of the song (4:56), the microphone stand unexpectedly collapsed, forcing Stevie to remove the microphone from the stand. She commented on the bizarre microphone stand malfunction afterwards.
That has never happened before ever, that I have never taken the mic off the stand ever because, at some point when we were still in San Francisco, I did take the mic off the stand with Lindsey, and he said to me, ‘How very Las Vegas of you.’ And just like a museum [sic], it made such an effect on me that I thought: Well, I can never ever take the mic off and walk and sing with it. So that was a first. I guess I can actually do that.
[singing] “Well, you’re walking in Memphis…” Thank you, everybody! It’s really hard to say how much we appreciate the fact that you come out for three hours and spend that time with us and that you have stayed with us for all these many, many years. We are constantly on that road to find new and fun things to bring to you and to fulfill ourselves up here so that we can really be good. So thank you for allowing us to do songs that you’re not used to hearing and to listen to all my insane stories and to just be like, this is our living room. This is really what I do in my living room. I say, let’s just play music, you know. So thank you for talking to me, thank you for listening, and thank you for just being a super beautiful audience. I will never ever forget you. Thank you so much! God bless you!
It was a fitting close to International Women’s Day as two of rock’s iconic female figures, Stevie Nicks and the Chrissie Hynde, took the stage of FedExForum on Wednesday. Appearing with her solo band, Fleetwood Mac star Nicks was the ostensible headliner, but it was Hynde and her group The Pretenders who stole the show, with both women presenting district and distinctly different visions of musical and personal empowerment.
