Paul McCartney returns to Colombia
Inside his world tour "One on One", the British musician will perform a concert at the Atanasio Girardot stadium in Medellín. The date confirmed for his show, where he will perform classics and new songs, is Tuesday, October 24.
The first images of Paul McCartney in Bogotá showed him youthful, rocker and willing. He arrived in a private plane, the third and last of his entourage, whose members were gradually approaching the capital of the Republic. The other aircraft carried a good part of their technical, logistic and security equipment in order to expedite the preparations for the concert offered by the Beatle on April 19, 2012, El Campin Stadium.
The gesture with which the artist broke the ice when realizing that the reception, despite the cold of Bogotá and the hour, was with height, affection and devotion, was special. A wave of arms from top to bottom simulating a dance and then doubled his left arm to play, in the air, yes, guitar or bass, as he did many times during his participation in the quartet Liverpool.
Hundreds of fans of the Beatles, but also youngsters with the covers of his most recent recordings as a soloist, were waiting for him at the Eldorado airport that April 2012 without being sure of his arrival in the country. Soon the myth was proven that McCartney liked most is the direct contact with the public. To him, it seems strange, he is disturbed by the suspicion that he is moving away from the people, that immense, world-wide family that he has managed to influence during the last five decades of history.
That's why he dances, enjoys, is thrilled when he first visits a city. Paul McCartney rarely repeats stage. It is not the ones that include the same destinations visited during the previous tour. He opted for the novelty and that led him to appear in Santiago de Chile, Bueno Aires, Lima and Bogotá, as part of his world tour On The Run, with which he played almost two years of concerts in America and Europe.
And as the idea of the artist is always to innovate, not to repeat itself in the city, McCartney will return to Colombia this year 2017 but now the city chosen to give him kilometers of trip to his current tour One on One, is Medellín. With this current tour, which began in 2016, it has already conquered large and medium-sized populations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan.
In Latin America, Paul McCartney will play with his band Sao Paulo (Brazil) on October 15; The 18 of the same month will be in the soccer stadium of Salvador Bahia (Brazil) and 21 in the sports complex of Manaus (Brazil).
Tuesday, October 24 is the date selected by the artist and his team to perform at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellín, and he would do it with the musicians of his band Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray on guitars; Paul Wickens on keyboard and percussion; And Abe Laboriel, Jr. on drums.
One On One is the most recent Paul McCartney tour, which began in the United States in 2016 and has presented 45 shows in 13 countries to more than 1.5 million viewers. The tour in 2016 concluded at the festival "Desert Trip in the United States.
The musician's new show features dazzling and re-designed production, as well as classics never before performed live in one of the industry's most treasured music catalogs. The show spans McCartney's entire career, from his early work with The Quarrymen to his most recent collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna; Will also include, of course, works by the Beatles, Wings and his catalog as a soloist.
How much do Paul McCarney concert tickets cost in Medellin?The ticket price for the Paul McCartney concert in Medellin is $ 1,500,000 in VIP, $ 900,000 in Platinum, $ 700,000 in Gold, $ 470,000 in Western and Eastern, $ 220,000 in North and $ 170,000 in general field.
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