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John Mellencamp Setlist
Hollywood Vampires Setlist
The Tenors Setlist
John Mellencamp Tour Dates
09/17/16 Bristow, VA "Farm Aid"
10/11/16 Worcester, MA Hanover Theatre 10/12/16 Utica, NY Stanley Center 10/14/16 Wilkes-Barre, PA F.M. Kirby Center 10/15/16 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel, Casino 10/18/16 Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre 10/19/16 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre 10/21/16 Toledo, OH Stranahan Theater 10/22/16 Niagara Falls, NY Seneca Niagara Resort 10/25/16 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre 10/26/16 Richmond, KY EKU Center For The Arts 10/28/16 Columbia, MO Jesse Auditorium 10/30/16 Ames, IA Stephens Auditorium 11/01/16 Lincoln, NE Lied Center 11/02/16 Sioux Falls, SD Washington Pavilion 11/04/16 Grand Forks, ND Chester Fritz Auditorium Hollywood Vampires Tour Dates
07/22/16 Rohnert Park, CA Weill Hall
07/23/16 Jacksonville, OR "Britt Festivals" 07/24/16 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery 07/25/16 Paso Robles, CA California Mid-State Fair The Tenors Tour Dates
07/29/16 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
07/30/16 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery 12/11/16 Newark, NJ Prudential Hall Read More
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In terms of the senses, hearing is likely the most critical for any musician,
And so, it makes sense that so many musicians, as well as celebrities, sports figures, and dignitaries all descended on St Paul over the weekend to attend The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a record $9.5 million dollars to accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally help to support grants for area nonprofits.
Previously, we covered the red carpet and arrivals; now, we want to focus on the gala itself and its many memorable music performances.
With a full orchestra on hand, the program began promptly at 5:30 in a large upstairs ballroom with the attendees enjoying their dinner and drinks at ten-person tables. An introductory video was shown (with numerous celebrity cameos) to get the festivities started and then Canadian group The Tenors sang their version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, complete with an eagle flying over the onlooking crowd.
Usually a quartet, the operatic group has for now slimmed down to a trio, the result of fallout from an unexpected verse (by a now former member) during the Canadian national anthem earlier in the week at the MLB All-Star Game, which resulted in his expulsion.
Comedian Jay Leno got things going with a few jokes, and several videos of Starkey mission trips were shown, where people young and old, were seen receiving the benefits of this ever-constant humanitarian program. Executive director and co-founder of PACER, Paula F. Goldberg was then honored and included an impassionate plea against bullying, in her acceptance speech.
Hollywood Vampires members Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp took to the podium to describe their mission experience with the Foundation, while the band was on tour playing Rock in Rio in Brazil as well as Lisbon. Depp joked about the road life, saying “I went to sleep in Detroit and woke up next to a Charlie Brown statue in St. Paul” and Cooper mentioned that seeing children, parents and grandparents hear for the first time, was truly the highpoint of their touring.
Jay Leno then returned for a full comedy routine, covering politics, everyday life, his older technology, and getting older during his twenty-five minute routine, which closed with a “Minnesota hunting joke”. The most recent American Idol winner Trent Harmon was next, playing a soulful version of ‘Stand By Me’, followed by his own original, ‘Tennessee Whiskey”.
Country duo Maddie and Tae prefaced their lone (but appropriate) song, ‘Fly’, from last year’s Start Here (on Republic Records) with a story of sponsoring a recent video contest to promote hearing awareness among the nation’s high schools.
Starkey founder Bill Austin centered his Founder’s speech on a Civil War officer saving his descendent, making the point of the difference that a single person can make, followed by a forty-minute auction segment (which raised the majority of funds for the evening), including even a mission to Jamaica, taking place at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios.
All-star band Hollywood Vampires roared out of the gate next, for a loud and energetic half-hour that no doubt vibrated the wine glasses of every table near the front, making many reach for the complimentary ear plugs on each table.
In addition to Cooper and Depp, the band was ably rounded out by STP bassist Robert DeLeo, G’nR/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, Bruce Witkin, and from Cooper’s band, Tommy Henriksen, with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry still missing since an on-stage collapse the previous weekend at Coney Island.
After playing a pair of Who covers, Depp had to fill in on the talkbox for Perry on ‘Sweet Emotion’ and the group ended with Cooper’s own, ‘School’s Out’. “If you don’t know this song, you were never a teenager”, Depp quipped to the tuxedo and ball gown crowd.
Immediately following, Depp’s guitar was auctioned for $60,000 to a lucky bidder, with a competing bidder also winning a signed guitar for the same donation amount.
Right Honourable Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister 1997-07) was honored following, breaking the ice by admitting he always wanted to be Alice Cooper and expanded on his work with the Africa Governance Initiative, in furthering development on the continent.
The Tenors returned with more gusto, weaving through the crowd for ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ before returning to the stage for a swinging Elvis medley that included ‘Suspicious Minds’ and ‘It’s Now or Never’ and ended with a larynx-stretching version of the operatic classic, ‘Nessun Dorma’.
Jennifer Garner seemed genuinely humbled and awestruck for being honored as an advocate for early childhood education and trustee for Save the Children, and singer John Mellencamp (who arrived late enough to miss any red carpet) closed out the evening with a four-song, twenty minute set starting with classic, ‘Pink Houses’.
Playing with longtime guitarist Mike Wanchic, Violinist Miriam Sturm, and two background singers, the intimate set continued with bluesman Robert Johnson’s ‘Stones in My Passway’, rich with Wanchic’s slide guitar work. Mellencamp then stepped back to let his singers take the vocals for ‘Save Some Time to Dream’ because “their voices deliver a lot better than my old raspy voice”, he said.
The all-American ‘Jack and Diane’ ended the set (and evening) with many up out of their chairs waving hands above heads and singing along to the stripped down, slower version.
“If you want a better world, it starts with you”, Mellencamp said, leaving the stage, managing to casually encompass the message of the night in one short sentence. Using hearing as a vehicle to change lives around the world, the Starkey Foundation embodies Mellencamp’s statement, providing a gift to so many, “So the World May Hear”.
Photo Gallery:
And so, it makes sense that so many musicians, as well as celebrities, sports figures, and dignitaries all descended on St Paul over the weekend to attend The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a record $9.5 million dollars to accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally help to support grants for area nonprofits.
Previously, we covered the red carpet and arrivals; now, we want to focus on the gala itself and its many memorable music performances.
With a full orchestra on hand, the program began promptly at 5:30 in a large upstairs ballroom with the attendees enjoying their dinner and drinks at ten-person tables. An introductory video was shown (with numerous celebrity cameos) to get the festivities started and then Canadian group The Tenors sang their version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, complete with an eagle flying over the onlooking crowd.
Usually a quartet, the operatic group has for now slimmed down to a trio, the result of fallout from an unexpected verse (by a now former member) during the Canadian national anthem earlier in the week at the MLB All-Star Game, which resulted in his expulsion.
Comedian Jay Leno got things going with a few jokes, and several videos of Starkey mission trips were shown, where people young and old, were seen receiving the benefits of this ever-constant humanitarian program. Executive director and co-founder of PACER, Paula F. Goldberg was then honored and included an impassionate plea against bullying, in her acceptance speech.
Hollywood Vampires members Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp took to the podium to describe their mission experience with the Foundation, while the band was on tour playing Rock in Rio in Brazil as well as Lisbon. Depp joked about the road life, saying “I went to sleep in Detroit and woke up next to a Charlie Brown statue in St. Paul” and Cooper mentioned that seeing children, parents and grandparents hear for the first time, was truly the highpoint of their touring.
Jay Leno then returned for a full comedy routine, covering politics, everyday life, his older technology, and getting older during his twenty-five minute routine, which closed with a “Minnesota hunting joke”. The most recent American Idol winner Trent Harmon was next, playing a soulful version of ‘Stand By Me’, followed by his own original, ‘Tennessee Whiskey”.
Country duo Maddie and Tae prefaced their lone (but appropriate) song, ‘Fly’, from last year’s Start Here (on Republic Records) with a story of sponsoring a recent video contest to promote hearing awareness among the nation’s high schools.
Starkey founder Bill Austin centered his Founder’s speech on a Civil War officer saving his descendent, making the point of the difference that a single person can make, followed by a forty-minute auction segment (which raised the majority of funds for the evening), including even a mission to Jamaica, taking place at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios.
All-star band Hollywood Vampires roared out of the gate next, for a loud and energetic half-hour that no doubt vibrated the wine glasses of every table near the front, making many reach for the complimentary ear plugs on each table.
In addition to Cooper and Depp, the band was ably rounded out by STP bassist Robert DeLeo, G’nR/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, Bruce Witkin, and from Cooper’s band, Tommy Henriksen, with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry still missing since an on-stage collapse the previous weekend at Coney Island.
After playing a pair of Who covers, Depp had to fill in on the talkbox for Perry on ‘Sweet Emotion’ and the group ended with Cooper’s own, ‘School’s Out’. “If you don’t know this song, you were never a teenager”, Depp quipped to the tuxedo and ball gown crowd.
Immediately following, Depp’s guitar was auctioned for $60,000 to a lucky bidder, with a competing bidder also winning a signed guitar for the same donation amount.
Right Honourable Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister 1997-07) was honored following, breaking the ice by admitting he always wanted to be Alice Cooper and expanded on his work with the Africa Governance Initiative, in furthering development on the continent.
The Tenors returned with more gusto, weaving through the crowd for ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ before returning to the stage for a swinging Elvis medley that included ‘Suspicious Minds’ and ‘It’s Now or Never’ and ended with a larynx-stretching version of the operatic classic, ‘Nessun Dorma’.
Jennifer Garner seemed genuinely humbled and awestruck for being honored as an advocate for early childhood education and trustee for Save the Children, and singer John Mellencamp (who arrived late enough to miss any red carpet) closed out the evening with a four-song, twenty minute set starting with classic, ‘Pink Houses’.
Playing with longtime guitarist Mike Wanchic, Violinist Miriam Sturm, and two background singers, the intimate set continued with bluesman Robert Johnson’s ‘Stones in My Passway’, rich with Wanchic’s slide guitar work. Mellencamp then stepped back to let his singers take the vocals for ‘Save Some Time to Dream’ because “their voices deliver a lot better than my old raspy voice”, he said.
The all-American ‘Jack and Diane’ ended the set (and evening) with many up out of their chairs waving hands above heads and singing along to the stripped down, slower version.
“If you want a better world, it starts with you”, Mellencamp said, leaving the stage, managing to casually encompass the message of the night in one short sentence. Using hearing as a vehicle to change lives around the world, the Starkey Foundation embodies Mellencamp’s statement, providing a gift to so many, “So the World May Hear”.
Photo Gallery:
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The Tenors |
The Tenors |
Paula F Goldberg |
Jay Leno |
Bill Austin |
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The Tenors at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) |
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Hollywood Vampires |
Hollywood Vampires |
Hollywood Vampires |
Hollywood Vampires |
Hollywood Vampires |
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Hollywood Vampires at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) |
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Tony Blair |
Jennifer Garner |
John Mellencamp |
John Mellencamp |
John Mellencamp |
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John Mellencamp at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) |
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