Ringo Starr Announces Tour Dates After #PeaceAndLove Celebration Today

Seems like a good time to wish everybody's favorite drummer Ringo Starr "Happy Birthday" and share some exciting news. Good to see Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band will be performing in my neck of the woods at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Costa Mesa on Oct. 20, 2016...

RINGO STARR JOINED FRIENDS AND FANS

ON HIS BIRTHDAY, JULY 7, 2016, FOR A WORLDWIDE #PEACEANDLOVE CELEBRATION

WHICH WAS STREAMED LIVE ON RINGO'S FACEBOOK PAGE

  

Ringo Starr performs in Santa Barbara in July 2014.
Photo: Robert Kinsler

July 7, 2016- It was a very happy birthday for Ringo Starr who was joined today in front of Capitol Records in Hollywood for his #PeaceAndLove birthday celebration. Special guests, family, and friends took part in his now annual (since 2008) July 7th, noon "Peace and Love" salute. This year guests included Benmont Tench, Bud Cort, Dave Stewart, David Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., Edgar Winter, Eric Burdon, Glen Ballard, Joe Montagna, Jim Keltner, Joe Walsh, Richard Lewis, Richard Marx, and the current All Starrs, Steve Lukather and Gregg Bissonette.

This year, Starr's birthday celebration also included musical tribute performances of Ringo Starr original songs. Vandaveer played "Don't Pass Me By" and "Photograph," Alberta Cross played "It Don't Come Easy and "You Can't Stop Lightening" and Dave Stewart and Jon Stevens played "With A Little Help From My Friends" and "No No Song".

Ringo Starr also revealed a new set of tour dates with the current and longest running All Starrs (Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Todd Rundgren, Richard Page, Warren Hamm and Gregg Bissonnette) that takes them to Japan, Korea bookended by dates up and down the West Coast. Here are some, with more to be announced soon:

 

United States:

Oct 15-Snoqualmie Casino, Sonqualmie, WA

Oct 16 Spokane Arena Star Theatre, Spokane, WA
Oct 18 Keller Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Oct 19 Grand Sierra Casino Theater, Reno, Nevada
Oct 20 Segerstrom Center For The Arts, Costa Mesa, Ca

Japan:
Oct 24 Orix Gekijo, Osaka 
Oct 25 Aichi-Ken Geijutsu Gekijo, Nagoya 
Oct 27 Sun Palace Hall, Fukuoka 
Oct 28 Bunkagakuen HBG Hall, Hiroshima
Oct 31-Nov 1-2 Orchard Hall, Tokyo

South Korea:
Nov 5 Olympic Gymnasium, Seoul, South Korea