In 2023, he’ll continue his trek with several shows throughout the United States. But in 2022, he came back full force with a string of sold out shows in the United States and United Kingdom, and he even made his debut in Israel. His 2022 tour follows several cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is long awaited and anticipated by fans.After Al’s US tour in 2019 with his band The Empty Pockets, he spent most of 20 sidelined due the COVID-19 pandemic. His concerts draw fans who have been loyal to Stewart for decades. Stewart prides himself on writing music that is a bit eccentric. Stewart moved to the United States to reside in the Los Angeles area following the release of his album Year of the Cat in October 1976. As his music career took off, Stewart released two back-to-back platinum-selling albums,The Year of the Cat and Time Passages. He began his career by singing in local coffee shops around London. His father, who served in the Royal Airforce, died in a plane crash during a training exercise before Stewart was born. When Stewart was a child, his mother moved him to an English town named Wimborne Minster, following the death of his father. Catch Al Stewart and his band, The Empty Pockets on tour in 2022.Īl Stewart is a Scottish singer/songwriter who rose to stardom in the late 1960s as part of the British Folk Revival. The 2022 tour will feature songs from all of Stewart's albums, including Year of the Cat, Time Passages, On the Border, Nostradamus, and Roads To Moscow.

His 2022 tour with his band, The Empty Pockets, is set to span three countries, including the United States, UK and Israel. Stewart has maintained one of the most devoted and long-lasting audiences of the folk/rock genre. His 1974 album, Past, Present and Future, outsold all of his previous albums combined. Stewart's concerts are a glimpse into the past, telling his favorite tales from his years of scouring history books. The folk singer started his career writing love songs, but after a run of bad luck in that department, Stewart, an avid history buff, decided to give his storytelling skills a whirl. Attending a show is a memorable experience, and can be somewhat of a history lesson.

Drawing crowds on tour since the 1960s, when his debut album, Year of the Cat hit the radio, Stewart takes his audience on a journey with him that they will never forget. Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart is one of them. There is something special about an artist who can tell a captivating story through their music.

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