The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa
PRESENTS A ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE BY
MULTIPLE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER
TONY BENNETT
May 7, 2015, at 8 p.m.
Tickets $65 – $80
The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa
“We aren’t likely to see a recording career like this again.” – The New York Times
“….his voice is still a technical marvel, and no one else on Earth can make a lyric written eight decades ago sound as natural as a conversation at a coffee shop.” – New York Magazine
TULSA, Okla. –The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa proudly presents Tony Bennett, the 17-time Grammy Award-winning musician whose music spans six decades, on May 7. Tickets range from $65 to $80 and can be purchased beginning March 12 through The Joint box office at (918) 384-ROCK or online at www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com.
With worldwide record sales in the millions and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit, Tony Bennett is a musician who touches the hearts and souls of audiences with his legendary vocals and charming stage presence. His long list of achievements, spanning 60 years, includes 18 Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making this artist a true international treasure. His signature tunes, such as “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” and “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” form part of the fabric of American music culture. Often billed as the world’s most boyish octogenarian, Tony Bennett is a vital musical artist at the peak of his powers.Tony Bennett’s daughter, Antonia Bennett, has been touring with her father and will open the performance with a collection of jazz/pop standards. Antonia is a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music.
Tony Bennett celebrated his 85th birthday in 2011 with the release of “Duets II” and made music history by being the oldest artist to ever have a No. 1 CD on the Billboard album charts. “Duets II” followed “Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic,” released in 2006. The year 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the singer’s signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” as well as the release of a new documentary film, “The Zen of Bennett,” created and conceived by Tony’s son and manager, Danny Bennett. Tony Bennett also authored his fourth book, “Life Is a Gift,” released in 2012 and entered the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2014, Tony Bennett released a collaborative album with Lady Gaga, “Cheek to Cheek,” featuring these two legendary artists performing jazz standards. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Album charts, making Bennett the oldest musical artist, at the age of 88, to have an album top the Billboard 200, and it won the Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Pop Album category. Tony
Bennett is a Kennedy Center Honoree, an NEA Jazz Master and a recipient of the United Nation’s Humanitarian and Citizen of the World honors.
Tony Bennett is also a talented painter. He has exhibited his work in galleries around the world, and three of his original paintings are part of the permanent collection in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Throughout his career, Tony Bennett has put his heart and time into supporting humanitarian concerns and joined with Dr. Martin Luther King in the historic Selma march in 1965. His many charitable works include raising millions for diabetes research and lending his artwork to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. In 2007, he was honored by the United Nations. Together with his wife, Susan, Tony Bennett established the charitable organization Exploring The Arts to support arts education in public high schools. Tony founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, a NYC public high school in his hometown of Astoria, Queens and ETA now supports 14 additional New York City public high schools and just expanded to support three public arts high schools in Los Angeles.
For more information on Tony Bennett, please visit: www.tonybennett.com
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa is located off Interstate 44 at exit 240. Ticket prices and information on upcoming shows are available online in The Joint section of www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com or by calling (918) 384-ROCK. The Joint box office is open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. All guests must be 21 years of age or older.
