MARGI KENT Working on Stage Clothes For Stevie Nicks Tour

Looks like we may be in for some vintage Margi Kent originals on the upcoming Heart and Soul tour...

Los Angeles-based fashion designer Margi Kent is Stevie's stage clothes designer and has been since '76. Stevie and Margi came up with Stevie's whole dramatic look that she's so famous for to this day.

Margi Kent tweeted yesterday that she's was:

"busy working on some stage clothes for a clients upcoming tour. Cant say who it is yet but its going to be awesome!"

Then later tweeted:

"Stevie Nicks will be wearing vintage @MargiKentStudio on her upcoming tour. Love her!!"

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TICKET PRICES ANNOUNCED FOR MONTREAL SHOW

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks "Heart & Soul" Tour

April 1 at the Bell Centre in Montreal

Tickets for the Montreal show, priced between $48 and $115, go on sale Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. 

Phone 514-790-2525 or go to www.evenko.ca

Montreal Gazette

Those aren't bad prices at all!

FIRST LISTEN... "SECRET LOVE" BY STEVIE NICKS - AND PRE-ORDER INFO

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

click the image to be taken to the Warner Bros. site to buy the pre-sale and hear the track.

Includes free instant download of the first single "Secret Love". How amazing is that... Beautiful song... Stevie sounds magnificent on it... and great production by Dave Stewart... Looking forward to May!

(VIDEO) Stevie Nicks - "Stand Back"... The Ellen Show

Stevie Nicks is appearing on Ellen through out the day... Check your local listings to catch the show... A lot of people won't get this until later this afternoon.

IS "SECRET LOVE" THE NEW STEVIE NICKS SINGLE??

WHY YES IT IS....

(LOS ANGELES – January 13, 2011) ROD STEWART and STEVIE NICKS announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing today, Thursday, January 13, (check local listings) that they have joined forces for one of the most anticipated musical events of the year, THE HEART & SOUL TOUR. Launching March 20, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the tour will unite two of music’s most legendary forces for a series of arena concerts throughout North America - with performances already confirmed in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Montreal and more. Fans can tune-in to the show on Thursday, January 13 and log-on to watch their exclusive interview and performances. The tour will feature both artists performing all rock & roll sets from their incomparable catalogs of hits and backed by an incredible band of musicians and stage production. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday, January 21, visit rodstewartfanclub.com for details.

Said Rod Stewart: “We haven’t yet begun rehearsals but I can already tell you this, with Stevie on board our audiences are in store for an evening of pure rock & roll music. I’m already thinking about which of my old favourites to bring back and vocally, I think we’ve both begun thinking about which songs might be great fun and well-suited for a duet or two.” 

In a career spanning five decades, with an estimated 250 million album and single sales, Rod Stewart is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and indisputably one of the most successful performers of all time. He finished 2010 at the top of both the touring and album charts - highlighted by his critically-heralded, sold-out first run of concerts at The Colosseum in Las Vegas, a “Boxscore,” chart-topping, 33-date European summer tour which included 4 sold-out dates at London’s O2 Arena. Throughout his prolific career, he’s garnered16-Grammy nominations, including his current for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album," and sales of more than one million albums for his 2010 album FLY ME TO THE MOON…THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK, VOLUME V.

Stevie Nicks, Rock and Roll's reigning queen, will be releasing her highly anticipated new CD “IN YOUR DREAMS” on May 3, 2011. The new album, her first album of new material in a decade, was co-produced by former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. The new album is now available for fans to pre order at stevienicks.warnerreprise.com. Fans who pre-order the CD will receive an instant download of the record's first single, the Nicks’ penned "Secret Love”. The official release date of the single is February 3rd. Nicks is a multi-Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and member of Fleetwood Mac.

Tickets for THE HEART & SOUL TOUR will go on-sale beginning January 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM local time. Additional North American on-sales will take place over the following few weeks as detailed in the below tour itinerary. Fans can view full tour details including all updated and added tour dates and on-sale information by visiting rodstewartfanclub.com and rockalittle.com.

Here are the upcoming North American tour dates for Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks:

March 20: Bank Atlantic Center (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
March 23: St. Pete Times Forum (Tampa, Fla.)
March 24: Philips Arena (Atlanta)
March 26: Madison Square Garden (New York)
March 27: Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, Conn.)
March 30: TD Garden (Boston)
April 1: Bell Centre (Montreal)
April 2: Air Canada Center (Toronto)
April 5: Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)
April 9: United Center (Chicago)
April 10: Joe Louis Arena (Detroit)
April 15: US Airways Center (Phoenix)
April 16: Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles)

Business Wire Press Release

Enhanced Online News Press Release

See the full release on Rods Fanclub Site here

(VIDEO) HERE'S THE STEVIE NICKS AND ROD STEWART INTERVIEW ON ELLEN

Airing today... Check your local listings...

STEVIE GETS SOCIAL... SORT OF

Stevie Nicks (or her label shall I say) Enters The Social Scene

  Facebook | Twitter | Youtube  

All sites have been made official pages dedicated to Stevie as of this evening... Sarah (Community Manager at Warner Bros Records.) has been tweeting the links to the pages... Check them out!

Knowing it's a label rep doing the socializing makes it a little more plausible since we all know that Stevie doesn't Facebook or Myspace and she DOES NOT TWEET!  All sites/pages are brand spanking new except for the Facebook page - so don't expect too much right now. The Facebook page is sort of new... It's been there awhile just under a different link. Looks like Warners personalized the URL with Stevie's name which changes the link in which to get to the page. All the Facebook people that liked the page previously seem to be intact... So in a way it is new... Hopefully Warners engages fans and really takes this opportunity to involve people... I think they'd enjoy it!  And everyone is super excited and can't wait for May 3rd and for what's to come this year for Stevie!

(PHOTOS) Stevie Nicks just finished performing on Ellen

Here's a couple of shots of Stevie being led by Karen her Assistant and another guy - captures from the ustream live site from backstage.... Karen and another guy bringing Stevie off the stage back to her dressing room presumably.... These three were moving at a pretty brisk clip.. Wonder what the hurry was...  Maybe just to get out of the way - or maybe Rod was performing after her.  On her official Twitter stream it was posted this evening that she performed her new single... So check out the show tomorrow to hear it.

Ricky Peterson and Lori Nicks in front... Sharon and Waddy behind.

Rod and Stevie sitting and chatting with Ellen

And were outta here... Stevie and Rod with Karen in grey behind.

Stevie when she first walks in heading for her dressing room... Curlers in her hair on top of her head.. Wearing the beige platform boots.

Jimmy Paxson (Drummer) and Al Ortiz (Bass Player) Waddy at the bottom.

NEW STEVIE NICKS CD TITLED "In Your Dreams"

According to Amazon...

The New Release From Stevie Nicks is titled

 "In Your Dreams" 

and will hit the street May 3, 2011

 via Reprise.  

Great title by the way!!  There's also a song on the album called the same.

Finally! A date! A Title! Now we just need the album cover photo!  AND to find out what the "special announcement" tomorrow on Ellen will be! Could it be that Rod and Stevie confirm their much speculated about tour together this Spring?

Dave Stewart also tweeted today that we'll see on Ellen the first cover shot of the single he took of Stevie tomorrow...

Err... "may not be the single cover image I shot on Ellen today just found out"

It's all in the Adjectives....

David Wild gets his paws on the new Stevie Nicks album for a listen... First initial feelings on the new album?.... He thinks it's her best solo album ever! and describes the album as:

"Deeply Romantic, Cinematic,  Personal, 

Poetic and Dreamy,"

David visited Stevie and Dave Stewart in the studio during recording back in July and wrote a column on her new album that appeared in the September 16, 2010 issue of Rollingstone.

There's been a lot of excitement building around the release of this album... It's been 10 long years since Stevie's last solo studio album...Too long frankly.  Thanks to both Dave Stewart and David Wild for fueling this excitement... and Stevie of course.

David is a contributing editor of Rollingstone Magazine and The Huffington Post. Follow David Wild on Twitter and check him out on The Huffington Post.  While you're at it follow Mr. Dave Stewart as well!!.

Rick Turner Original Model 1 Lindsey Buckingham Signature Guitar Auction

6th Annual TEC Awards Music & Sound Auction

The auction will support hearing health in the music environment through the House Research Institute's Sound Partners initiative, the outreach efforts of H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers) and scholarships for students of the audio arts and sciences.

Our goal is to raise at least $100,000 at MSRP of pro audio hardware and software, musical instruments and other items of interest to our constituency, and we're asking for your help in meeting this goal. One of the headline items this year will be a Rick Turner Original Model 1 Lindsey Buckingham Signature Guitar, autographed by this year’s Les Paul Award recipient, Lindsey Buckingham.

The TEC Awards Music & Sound Auction will begin January 24th on eBay, with ending times for auction items ranging from 5-10 days. Promotion of the eBay auction will begin in the weeks preceding NAMM. As always, any donations will be tax deductible to the full extent of IRS regulations.

Named for one of the industry's most revered personalities, the Les Paul Award was created in 1991 to honor individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology.

The prodigiously talented Lindsey Buckingham, the singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer behind the most successful lineup of Fleetwood Mac—as well as a sterling solo career—is a natural choice for the Les Paul Award honor.

Music and Sound Auction

26th Annual TEC Awards
Friday, January 14, 2011
NAMM Show
Anaheim, CA

Buy tickets to the event

Exciting Announcement to Come This Thursday on Ellen With Stevie and Rod

ROD STEWART & STEVIE NICKS

Not just one, but two legendary musicians are stopping by! ROD STEWART and STEVIE NICKS are here, and they’ll both sing one of their classic hits. Plus, they’ve got an exciting announcement that you don’t want to miss!

This text was taken from the email notification from The Ellen show.

WHO WILL BE THERE:

What we know so far is that RICKY PETERSON - Stevie's keyboard player has confirmed he'll be there... WADDY WACHTEL, Stevie's lead guitarist and Musical Director, according to his facebook page, will also be performing on Ellen along with Stevie's bass player AL ORTIZ who will be playing bass for both Stevie and Rod...  Who's drumming? Jimmy Paxson? not sure... Percussion?  Not Taku - he's busy preparing for a Josh Groban tour... Lenny Castro possibly?  Is Carlos Rios back along with Sharon and Lori?

RUMOURS AND SPECULATIONS have Stevie and Rod announcing a joint tour or slate of shows together.  With Stevie's new album not expected now until late spring along with Dave Stewart still talking about doing shows with Stevie this Spring/Summer, and his own album now slated for a May release - plus the fact that Rod has Euro dates booked beginning June, one can only assume that IF Stevie and Rod were to announce a joint tour that it will be a short pre-album release tour.  We will have to wait and see this Thursday.