Jon Lord’s concert at Lichfield Cathedral (near Birmingham) on July 17 is shaping up to feature a special selection of music from his solo career.
Appearing with a string quartet, bass, drums, flute, a keyboard player and two singers, Jon Lord is planning to perform ’some or all of the following’:
Sarabande – Gigue – Bourree – De Profundis – Miles Away – Wait a While – The Sun Will Shine Again – From the Windmill – Telemann Experiment. Plus more – as yet undecided.
The evening’s line-up is:
Jon Lord on Hammond and piano
Nigel Hopkins on keyboards
Don Richardson on bass
Steve White on drums
Bruce Martin on flute
Steve Balsamo & Kasia ᴌaska on vocals
The Badke String Quartet
Buy tickets to see Jon Lord at Lichfield Cathedral on July 17.
Earlier the same day Jon Lord will also appear ‘in conversation’ with festival director Richard Hawley at Lichfield Garrick Main Theatre – buy tickets.
For the first time since 1976, Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes performed together at this year’s ChildLine Rocks in London. On June 1 the pair got together to play You Keep On Moving, a song first recorded by Deep Purple Mk 4 in 1975.
On September 24, Jon Lord will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Concerto for Group and Orchestra by performing the piece in Dublin, Ireland with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
On July 11, Jon Lord will appear as special guest to Robert Well’s touring Rhapsody In Rock show at Falkenberg, Sweden.
This Thursday evening (May 28) at 8pm Jon Lord joins Nicky Horne for an interview on Planet Rock about his appearance next Monday at ChildLine Rocks.
On September 1, Jon Lord will open the Fall Arts Fest in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
