Carlos Santana is kicking off his Shape Shifter Tour 2012 on July 7th at Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Hinckley, Minnesota. The tour is in support of Santana’s upcoming Shape Shifter album dropping on May 15th. Santana will also be performing classics from throughout the group’s 40 year long career during the tour which is currently scheduled through July 21st.
The new album – a 13 song instrumental set – features Chester Thompson on keyboards, Dennis Chambers on drums, Benny Rietveld on bass, Salvador Santana on keyboards, Raul Rekow on congas and Karl Perazzo on percussion.
Shape Shifter Tour:
July 7 Grand Casino Mille Lacs Hinckley, MN
July 9 Ravinia Festival Highland Park, IL
July 12 Fraze Pavilion for the Performing
Arts Kettering, OH
July 13 Soaring Eagle Casino Resort Mount Pleasant, MI
July 14 Molson Canadian Amphitheatre West Toronto, ON
July 15 DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI
July 17 Bank of America Pavilion Boston, MA
July 18 Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion Gilford, NH
July 20-21 Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center Atlantic City, NJ
More on Carlos Santana [Courtesy of Starfaith Records]
Since Santana emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area music scene in the 1960s, the group has sold more than 100 million records, reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Santana has won 10 GRAMMYs, including a record-tying nine for a single project, 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Smooth”). With the 2010 release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, Santana joined the Rolling Stones as one of only two music acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album in each decade from the 1960s on. Among other honors, Carlos Santana is #20 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”–“Santana’s crystalline tone and clean arcing sustain make him the rare instrumentalist who can be identified in just one note.”
Source: Starfaith Records
