Country Rockstar and Inspiration Keith Urban will be headlin his fifth tour called “Escaping Together” ending this fall, which will take him through North America and worldwide.

Keith Urban’s  career took off in 1977 when he received the Junior Best Solo Act Award. From the year 1977 to 1998, Keith won a total of 13 awards at the Country Music Awards of Australia. In the year 2001 he became the Top Male Artist which led him to a skyrocketing amount of awards and successes. In 2002 his album “Golden Road” went multi-platinum, not  much down the road his next two albums “Be Here” and “Love Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing” also went multi- platinum.

Keith Urban 2009 “Escape Together”  Tour Schedule (tickets by StubHub)

Keith Urban Tour 2009

Date	Day	City	Venue	Tickets
9/9/2009	Wednesday	Salt Lake City, UT	Energy Solutions Arena	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/11/2009	Friday	Portland, OR	Rose Garden	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/12/2009	Saturday	Tacoma, WA	Tacoma Dome	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/14/2009	Monday	Spokane, WA	Spokane Arena	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/16/2009	Wednesday	Vancouver, BC	General Motors Place	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/18/2009	Friday	Calgary, AB	Pengrowth Saddledome	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/19/2009	Saturday	Calgary, AB	Pengrowth Saddledome	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/20/2009	Sunday	Edmonton, AB	Rexall Place	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/22/2009	Tuesday	Edmonton, AB	Rexall Place	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/23/2009	Wednesday	Saskatoon, SK	Credit Union Centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/24/2009	Thursday	Saskatoon, SK	Credit Union Centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/26/2009	Saturday	Winnipeg, MB	MTS centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
9/27/2009	Sunday	Winnipeg, MB	MTS centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/1/2009	Thursday	London, ON	John Labatt Centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/3/2009	Saturday	Toronto, ON	Air Canada Centre	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/7/2009	Wednesday	Albany, NY	Times Union Center	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/8/2009	Thursday	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/9/2009	Friday	Buffalo, NY	HSBC Arena	Get Keith Urban Tickets
10/13/2009	Tuesday	Nashville, TN	Sommet Center	Get Keith Urban Tickets
7/30/2010	Friday	Sweet Home, OR	860 18th Ave	Get Keith Urban Tickets

Band Members On Tour

The band members for the Keith Urban 2009 “Escape Together” Tour are:

• Keith Urban – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, Bouzouki, E-Bow
• Chris McHugh – Drums, Percussion
• Chris Rodriquez – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Ganjo, Mandolin, Bass Guitar, Background Vocals
• Brien Nutter – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Ganjo, Mandolin, Bass Guitar, Background Vocals, Drums
• Jerry Flowers – Bass Guitar, Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals
• Brad Rice – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Ganjo, Mandolin, Background Vocals

Keith Urban singing “Only You Can Love Me This Way”

The Keith Urban 2009 “Escape Together”  Tour Listening

The following are our picks for listening music for the drive to the show.  If you have a Keith Urban  song to contribute, put it in the comments section and we’ll update the list.

• Only You Can Love Me This Way
• Sweet Thing
• You’ll Think Of Me
• Kiss a Girl
• Tonight I Wanna Cry

The Summer Set, like many small bands, started out in their home town of Scottsdale, Arizona  taking turns playing in each others garages. When their debut album “In Colors” landed Itunes on June 24,2008, things changed for this small hometown band. Soon they were playing in venues across the United States and before long, they landed their second album “Can You Find Me” in December of 2008.  With the release of their latest single Chelsea and the upcoming release of their new album in October, there is no doubt The Summer Set will be selling out venues across the United State this fall.

The Summer Set 2009 “In Colors”  Tour Schedule (tickets by StubHub)

Date	Day	City	Venue	Tickets
9/22/09	Tuesday	Bakersfield, CA	Jerry' Pizza	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/23/09	Wednesday	Palmdale, CA	The Crossing	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/24/09	Thursday	St. Louis, UT	The Electric Theatre	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/25/09	Friday	Salt Lake City, UT	The Sho	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/26/09	Saturday	Colorado Springs, CO	The Black Sheep	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/27/09	Sunday	Ohmaha, NB	Sokol Underground	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/28/09	Monday	Morris, IL	The Korova	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/29/09	Tuesday	Lancing, MI	Mac's Bar	Summer Set Concert Tickets
9/30/09	Wednesday	Jeanette, PN	Keynote Cafe	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/2/09	Friday	Heartford, CT	Webster Underground	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/3/09	Saturday	Manchester, NH	Stadium Ten Pin	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/4/09	Sunday	Providence, RI	Club Hell	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/6/09	Tuesday	Altoona, PN	The Eldolyn Terrace	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/7/09	Wednesday	Baltimore, MD	Ottobar	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/9/09	Friday	Vineland, NJ	Hanger 84	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/10/09	Saturday	Wilmington, DL	The Harmoney Grange	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/22/09	Thursday	Raleigh, NC	Lincoln Theatre	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/23/069	Friday	Baltimore, ML	The Quarter	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/24/09	Saturday	South Hackensack, NJ	School of Rock	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/25/09	Sunday	Philidalphia,PN	Trocadero	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/27/09	Tuesday	New York City, New York	The Gramercy Theatre	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/28/09	Wednesday	Allston, MA	Harper's Ferry	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/29/09	Thursday	Poughkeepsie, NY	The Platinum Lounge	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/30/09	Friday	Buffalo, NY	Extreme Wheels	Summer Set Concert Tickets
10/31/09	Saturday	Columbus, OH	The Basement	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/1/09	Sunday	Cleveland, OH	Peabody's	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/3/06	Tuesday	Detroit, MI	St. Andrews Hall	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/4/09	Wednesday	Tinley Park, IL	Moejoe's Rock House	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/5/09	Thursday	Milwaukee, W	Rave II	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/6/09	Friday	Des Moines, IA	House of Bricks	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/7/09	Saturday	St. Paul, MN	Station 4	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/10/09	Tuesday	Seattle, WA	El Corazon	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/11/09	Wednesday	Portland, OR	Hawthorn Theatre	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/12/09	Thursday	Orangevale, CA	The Boardwalk	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/13/09	Friday	San Francisco, CA	Slim's	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/14/09	Saturday	Anaheim, CA	Change Reaction	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/15/09	Sunday	West Hollywood, CA	Trobadour	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/17/09	Tuesday	La Jolla, CA	Portor's Club	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/18/09	Wednesday	Tempe, AZ	The Clubhouse	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/20/09	Friday	Austin, TX	Emo's	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/21/09	Saturday	Houston, TX	The Meridian	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/22/09	Sunday	Dallas, TX	The Door	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/24/09	Tuesday	Orlando, FL	The Social	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/25/09	Wednesday	Tampa, FL	The Crowbar	Summer Set Concert Tickets
11/27/09	Friday	Atlanta, GA	The The Masquerade	Summer Set Concert Tickets

Band Members On Tour

The band members for The Summer Set 2009 “In Colors” Tour  are:

• Brian Dales- Vocals
• Jessica Bowen – Drums
• John Gomez – Guitar
• Stephen Gomez – Bass
• Josh Montgomery – Guitar

The Summer Set singing  “Cross Your Fingers”

The Summer Set 2009 “In Colors”  Tour Listening

The following are our picks for listening music for the drive to the show.  If you have a Summer Set  song to contribute, put it in the comments section and we’ll update the list.

• Chelsea
• Shes Got The  Rythem
• Close To Me
• Cross Your Fingers
• Can You Find Me
• Seasons

British R&B and Soul superstar Seal will be continuing his 2009 Soul Tour in North America with performances in several Canadian and US cities.

Seal’s music career took off in 1991 with the release of his debut album entitled ”Seal” which featured singles ”Killer”, “Crazy”, and “Future Love Paradise”.   Soul is Seal’s sixth studio album Soul was released on 11 November 2008 in the United States.  The album features single “A Change Is Gonna Come” which is a a Sam Cooke cover.

Seal 2009 Soul Tour Schedule (tickets by StubHub)

Date	Day	City	Venue	Tickets
4/3/09	Friday	Windsor, ON	The Colosseum	Seal Tickets
4/4/09	Saturday	Toronto, ON	Massey Hall	Seal Tickets
4/6/09	Monday	Boston, MA	Orpheum Theatre	Seal Tickets
4/8/09	Wednesday	Darby, PA	Tower Theatre	Seal Tickets
4/10/09	Friday	Mashantucket, CT	MGM Grand at Foxwoods	Seal Tickets
4/11/09	Saturday	Atlantic City, NJ	The Borgata Event Center	Seal Tickets
4/15/09	Wednesday	Columbia, MD	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Seal Tickets
4/16/09	Thursday	New York, NY	Radio City Music Hall	Seal Tickets
4/18/09	Saturday	Atlanta, GA	Chastain Park Amphitheatre	Seal Tickets
4/19/09	Sunday	Saint Petersburg, FL	Mahaffey Theater	Seal Tickets
4/22/09	Wednesday	Miami Beach, FL	Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater	Seal Tickets
4/24/09	Friday	Biloxi, MS	Beau Rivage Resort and Casino	Seal Tickets
4/25/09	Saturday	Houston, TX	Verizon Wireless Theater	Seal Tickets
4/28/09	Tuesday	Austin, TX	Bass Concert Hall-Austin	Seal Tickets
4/29/09	Wednesday	Dallas, TX	Nokia Theatre	Seal Tickets

Band Members On Tour

The band members for the Seal 2009 Tour “Soul” are:

Mark Summerlin – Guitars/Programming/Musical Director
Steve Sidelnyk – Drums/Programming
Marcus Brown – Bass/Keyboards/Programming

Seal Singing “Change Is Gonna Come”

Essential Seal Soul 2009 Tour Listening

The following are our picks for listening music for the drive to the show.  If you have a Seal song to contribute, put it in the comments section and we’ll update the list.

• Crazy
• Kiss from a Rose
• Waiting for You
• Fly Like an Eagle

Rippingtons Tour Schedule

Date	Day	City	Venue	Tickets
5/6/09	Wednesday	Dallas - TX	Rippingtons TicketsHouse of Blues	Rippingtons Tickets
5/7/09	Thursday	Houston - TX	House of Blues	Rippingtons Tickets
5/8/09	Friday	Austin - TX	One World Theatre	Rippingtons Tickets
6/18/09	Thursday	Seattle - WA	Dimitriou's Jazz Alley	Rippingtons Tickets

Rippingtons Tour Members

• Russ Freeman
• Jeff Kashiwa
• Bill Heller
• Dave Karasony
• Rico Belled

Video Clip from Rippingtons Tourist In Paradise

The Scoop

Q: Why is Kim Stone not on the 2009 Rippingtons Tour?

A:  Per an email from the tour manager, Kim Stone is on haitus for this tour.  For those who have followed the band and Kim Stone, he has been with the band for over 18 years and was a staple.  Like other members who have taken a break over the years, we hope to see him back soon.

Essentials Song List for the Ride to the Rippingtons Show

-Summer Lovers (Topaz)

-Black Diamond (Black Diamond)

-Curves Ahead (Curves Ahead)

-Tourist In Paradise (Tourist in Paradise)

-Lay It Down (Wild Card)

-Wild Card (Wild Card

If you have other favorites to add to the list, put it in the comments and we’ll update.

Updates on the Modern Tour

Being based in Dallas, we’ll actually be at the first show in Dallas and will update this post with crucial concert details.  Also, e sure to check out our venue coverage as we’ve included information on seating, parking, and places to go before and after.