Posted By: Editor
February 24, 2025
Sixty years into her storied career, Elkie Brooks has added a raft of additional new dates to her Long Farewell Tour due to public demand.
Tickets are on-sale now for twenty newly-added live shows, set to take place in Fareham, Chester, Wolverhampton, Whitley Bay, Blackpool, Kings Lynn, Basingstoke, Peterborough, Cambridge, Birmingham Liverpool, London, Buxton, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Cheltenham, Swansea, Harrogate, Norwich & Nottingham. Elkie has also announced that her sold-out London Cadogan Hall date which was recently postponed due to illness has just been rescheduled to 3rd June 2024.
As Elkie said recently; “The pandemic closed the doors to our theatres and music halls. To be back onstage, to sing to people, to see faces, hear applause and to share these spaces is truly humbling.”
Full list of Elkie’s forthcoming UK dates is as follows;
2025
15 February – Gateshead – The Glasshouse
21 February – Northampton Royal & Derngate
28 February – Birmingham Town Hall
2 March – Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
7 March – Worthing Assembly Hall
16 March – Salford Lowry
20 March – Southend-on-Sea Cliffs Pavilion
28 March – Torquay Princess Theatre
11 April – York Barbican
12 May – Fareham Live (NEW SHOW)
16 May – Chester Storyhouse (NEW SHOW)
27 May – Edinburgh Queens Hall
29 May – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
3 June – London Cadogan Hall (SOLD OUT – RESCHEDULED DATE)
7 September – Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
27 September – Whitley Bay Playhouse (NEW SHOW)
5 October – Blackpool Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
9 October – Kings Lynn Alive Corn Exchange (NEW SHOW)
23 October – Basingstoke Anvil (NEW SHOW)
15 November – Peterborough New Theatre (NEW SHOW)
23 November – Cambridge Corn Exchange (NEW SHOW)
2026
7 February – Birmingham Town Hall (NEW SHOW)
15 February – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (NEW SHOW)
21 February – London Cadogan Hall (NEW SHOW)
7 March – Buxton Opera House (NEW SHOW)
13 March – Leicester De Montfort Hall (NEW SHOW)
21 March – Shrewsbury Theatre Severn (NEW SHOW)
26 March – Cheltenham Town Hall (NEW SHOW)
18 April – Swansea Grand Theatre (NEW SHOW)
23 April – Harrogate Royal Hall (NEW SHOW)
25 May – Norwich Theatre Royal (NEW SHOW)
28 June – Nottingham Theatre Royal (NEW SHOW)
Tickets for Elkie Brooks’ Long Farewell Tour are on-sale now from venues or direct via the official website
A celebration of her illustrious, award-winning six decades in music, Elkie will be performing some of her biggest hits on this new tour with her incredible live band including ‘Pearl’s A Singer,’ ‘Lilac Wine,’ ‘Fool (If You Think It’s Over),’ ‘No More The Fool’ and ‘Don’t Cry Out Loud’ in a remarkable, career-spanning show which touches on blues, rock and jazz. Fans will also be able to hear material from Elkie’s eagerly anticipated forthcoming twenty-first studio album for the very first time at these new UK live dates.
An exceptional performer with an unmistakable voice which has earned her the moniker ‘British Queen Of Blues,’ Elkie Brooks never fails to captivate her audience.
