Romantic New Yorkers, of every persuasion, it’s time to really get 2015 started right!
Go uptown to the legendary Apollo for the first big concert of the year - a one night only special evening with R&B Soul maestro D’ Angelo on Saturday, February 7th at 8pm.
Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed recent release, Black Messiah, D’Angelo will grace the Apollo stage for what is, as of right now, his first and only U.S. engagement since the release of the album.
The Apollo concert will be just in advance of his recently announced international tour.
Although this will be D’Angelo’s first time headlining the Apollo, he has a lot of history with the Theater and is an actually an Amateur Night alumni and won Amateur Night three times. In fact, he told a wonderful story in an interview about how he used his Amateur Night winnings to buy equipment he used to record his first album – his classic debut, Brown Sugar. So we are so happy to welcome him back home to the Apollo.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Wednesday, January 21st at 10am.
About the Apollo Theater
The legendary Apollo Theater— the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging talents and launching legends. Since its founding, the Apollo has served as a center of innovation, and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world. With music at its core, the Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, performance art, spoken word initiatives, and more. Recent highlights have included James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, which will begin an international tour in 2015, the Africa Now! Festival, and Apollo Club Harlem. Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms, and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres – including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at the Apollo are Lauryn Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Miri Ben Ari, D’Angelo, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, and Stevie Wonder; and the Apollo’s forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy.
The Apollo Theater is a not-for-profit organization and currently in the midst of fundraising for its 21st Century ApolloCampaign, created to extend the institution’s role in fostering artistic innovation and in building appreciation of American culture around the world. For more information, visit www.apollotheater.org.