David Bowie Birthday Celebration Streaming Event

‘A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!’ is the global streaming event to start 2021 off on a massive level on January 8 2021.

Beginning at 6pm PT / 2am GMT hosted by Mike Garson, David Bowie’s longest standing band member. The stream will bring together a dazzling array of artists who worked with Bowie, or were deeply influenced by him and his work, for a celebration on what would have been his birthday and weekend of the fifth anniversary of his passing.

Artists set to play the event include Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), William Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Grammy-winning singer Macy Gray, Ian Astbury (The Cult), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz), Bernard Fowler (Rolling Stones), Corey Glover (Living Color), Tony-winner Lena Hall, vocal phenom Judith Hill (Grammy winner for 20 Feet From Stardom) and Charlie Sexton (David Bowie, Bob Dylan), Duran Duran, vocal sensation Adam Lambert, UK chart topping Yungblud, three-time Grammy nominee Andra Day, actor/musician Michael C. Hall, Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter, singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist Anna Calvi, award-winning musician Atticus Ross, Kind Heaven Orchestra vocalist Etty Lau Farrell and How to Destroy Angels vocalist Mariqueen Maandig Reznor.

Additional artists are still to be announced. Artist lineup is subject to change.

They’ll join alumni members of Bowie’s bands spanning his 1969 self-titled album through his final album, ‘Blackstar’. Newly announced alumni returning to honor Bowie include Grammy Award-winning guitar legend Peter Frampton who was childhood friends with David and was featured on Bowie’s ‘Never Let Me Down’ album and played Guitar on his Glass Spider tour. Also joining the show is Grammy Award-winning saxophone phenom David Sanborn who recorded on Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’ album and was featured on his 1974 Diamond Dogs tour. Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman also joins the special A Bowie Celebration stream on January 8 having played piano on Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Hunky Dory’ and ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust’ and the ‘Spiders from Mars’ albums.

A Bowie Celebration is proud to announce they will donate $2 per ticket purchase to the Save The Children organization, a charity important to Bowie and the beneficiary of funds raised from his 50th Birthday Concert held in 1997 at a sold-out Madison Square Garden featuring many of the very artists who will be featured on January 8 2021 during this special global streaming event.

Fans can visit the event page at http://rollinglivestudios.com/bowie to buy tickets, purchase VIP experiences, and order exclusive merch. VIP ticket bundles offer fans a variety of exclusive opportunities and merchandise including everything from access to a Pre-Show soundcheck and an after-show Q&A with members of the band.

External Links

https://www.facebook.com/ABowieCelebration

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Internal Links

https://totalrock.com/brilliant-live-adventures-is-a-series-of-six-david-bowie-live-albums-from-the-1990s/

https://totalrock.com/david-bowie-rocksaws-set-to-be-released/