The My Songs Tour was a world tour by English singer-songwriter Sting , in support of his thirteenth solo studio album My Songs , released on 24 May 2019.
7-620: The tour began on 28 May 2019 at La Seine Musicale in Paris, France, and went on until 17 November 2019 at The Met in Philadelphia . The tour was due to resume in 2020 with a (rescheduled) 8-date residency from 15 August to 2 September at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas but was postponed and rescheduled to August 2020 and then to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Curiously, this tour
14-542: A concert by Insula orchestra [ fr ] , accompanied by the Accentus choir , conducted by Laurence Equilbey at the Patrick Devedjian Auditorium. During inauguration week a day earlier, American folk rock singer Bob Dylan was the first recording artist to hold a concert at the venue, for which he chose to perform at the 6,000-seat Grand Seine. On 8 December 2018, the venue hosted
21-434: A larger concert hall that hosts pop stars, rehearsal rooms for musicians (Riffx Studios), seminar rooms, a press center, restaurants and an extensive roof garden. Much of the site's daytime energy needs are supplied by a large mobile curved solar panel array that covers the smaller auditorium. From the fourth floor, there is an all-round view of the surroundings. Seating capacity for the unamplified Patrick-Devedjian Auditorium
28-604: The final draw of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup . On 19 December 2021 the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 was hosted on the Grande Seine, the biggest venue in the complex. It was the first time that France has hosted the contest, as well as the first Eurovision event to be hosted in the country since Eurovision Young Dancers 1999 in Lyon . In July 2009, the lead coordinating architect for
35-485: The project was named as Jean Nouvel ; although individual buildings have subsequently been commissioned from a range of international architectural practices. The initial complex of buildings on the island opened in April 2017 and were designed by the architectural team of Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines [ fr ] . The facilities include an elevated egg-shaped theater-in-the-round mostly for classical music,
42-454: The set list at all concerts for the duration of the tour. In August 2019, touring members of his band included: La Seine Musicale La Seine Musicale is a music and performing arts center located on Île Seguin an island on the Seine river between Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres , in the western suburbs of Paris , France. La Seine Musicale was inaugurated on 22 April 2017 with
49-585: Was not renamed The Bridge Tour after the release in November 2021 of Sting's new studio album (of original material) The Bridge although the 2022 ongoing tour setlist does include up to 5 songs from the new studio album. It was preceded by two pre-tour one-off shows on May 10 and 12, 2019, in Texas . This set list is representative of the performance on 2 July 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. It does not represent
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