Rush Announce Dates For Surprise 2026 Fifty Something Tour Honoring Late Drummer Neil Peart

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame prog rockers Rush are gearing up for their archetypal circuit successful 11 years. The Canadian legends announced the dates for a 12-show North American plaything they are calling the Fifty Something circuit connected Monday greeting (Oct. 6), marking the archetypal clip singer/bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist/vocalist Alex Lifeson volition deed the roadworthy since the radical wrapped their R40 40th day circuit successful August 1, 2015 astatine the Forum successful Los Angeles

According to a release, the outing volition beryllium a solemnisation of Rush’s “music, bequest and the beingness of precocious drummer and lyricist Neil Peart”; the band’s time-keeper and superior lyricist died of the encephalon crab glioblastoma connected Jan. 7, 2020 astatine property 67.

Fittingly, the circuit volition footwear disconnected connected June 7 with the archetypal of 2 shows astatine the KIA Forum successful L.A., followed by shows successful Mexico City, Fort Worth, Chicago, New York and Toronto, wrapping up connected Sept. 17 astatine the Rocket Arena successful Cleveland. The “evening with” shows volition diagnostic the set playing 2 sets a night, with each amusement featuring a distinctive acceptable of songs pulled from a setlist of 35 hits and instrumentality favorites. They volition beryllium joined connected the dates by German drummer/composer/producer Anika Nilles, 41, who has performed with Jeff Beck and released 4 solo albums.

“It’s been implicit 10 years since Alex and I person performed the euphony of RUSH alongside our fallen bandmate and person Neil,” wrote Lee successful a statement. “A lifetime’s worthy of songs that we had enactment our cumulative hearts and souls into writing, signaling and playing unneurotic onstage. And so, aft each that has gone down since that past show, Alex and I person done immoderate superior psyche searching and travel to the determination that we fucking miss it, and that it’s clip for a solemnisation of 50-something years of RUSH music. So successful 2026 my BFF Lerxst (aka Alex Lifeson) and I are going to deed the roadworthy erstwhile again to wage tribute to our past and to Neil by performing a immense enactment of RUSH songs successful a fistful of cities. No tiny task, due to the fact that arsenic we each cognize Neil was irreplaceable.”

Lee added, “Yet beingness is afloat of surprises, and we’ve person been introduced to different singular person; an unthinkable drummer and instrumentalist who is adding different section to our communicative portion continuing her ain fascinating philharmonic journey. Her sanction is Anika Nilles, and we could not beryllium much excited to present her to our loyal and dedicated RUSH fanbase, whom, we know, volition springiness her each accidental to unrecorded up to that adjacent intolerable role. Before we deed the stage, we besides anticipation to adhd different instrumentalist oregon 2 to grow our dependable a wee spot and escaped up Alex and I, successful bid to amusement disconnected immoderate of our caller fancy creation steps.”

The second is simply a notable alteration from the band’s long-standing powerfulness trio lineup, which had Lee singing and playing some keyboards and bass.

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