JOE SATRIANI Announces Fall 2022 North American Tour

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World-renowned guitarist Joe Satriani will embark on a 44-date North American tour in the fall. The trek will kick off on September 21 in Riverside, California and conclude on November 19 in Dallas, Texas. Joining Satriani on the tour will be drummer Kenny Aronoff, bassist Bryan Beller and keyboardist Rai Thistlewayte. Tickets go on sale on April 1 at Satriani.com. Tour dates: Sep. 21 - Riverside, CA @ Fox Performing Arts Center Sep. 22 - San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre Sep. 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre Sep. 24 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Sep. 25 - Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre @ Grand Sierra Resort Sep. 26 - Stockton, CA @ Bob Hope Theater Sep. 28 - Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre Sep. 29 - Spokane, WA @ Bing Crosby Theater Sep. 30 - Salem, OR @ Elsinore Theatre Oct. 02 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater Oct. 04 - Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre Oct. 06 - Salina, KS @ Stiefel Theatre Oct. 07 - Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Theatre Oct. 08 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant Oct. 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre Oct. 12 - Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre Oct. 13 - Peoria, IL @ Peoria Civic Center Theatre Oct. 14 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Kalamazoo State Theatre Oct. 15 - Wabash, IN @ Honeywell Center Oct. 16 - Canton, OH @ Canton Palace Theatre Oct. 17 - Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts Oct. 19 - Durham, NC @ Carolina Theatre Oct. 20 - Greensburg, PA @ Palace Theatre Oct. 21 - Northfield, OH @ MGM Northfield Park Oct. 22 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre Oct. 23 - Nashville, TN @ Brown County Music Center Oct. 24 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium Oct. 26 - Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre Oct. 27 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre Oct. 29 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall Nov. 02 - Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse Nov. 03 - Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse Nov. 04 - Collingswood, NJ @ Scottish Rite Auditorium Nov. 05 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre Nov. 07 - Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall Nov. 09 - Ponte Vedra, FL @ Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Nov. 10 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Nov. 11 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ The Parker Nov. 12 - Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall Nov. 14 - Huntsville, AL @ Mars Music Hall Nov. 16 - San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Nov. 17 - Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre Nov. 18 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues Nov. 19 - Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre Satriani will release his 19th studio album, "The Elephants Of Mars", on April 8. Pre-orders for the new album are available for fans and include a special limited digipack CD release featuring seven double-sided cards of original artwork by Satriani representing each song from the album. In addition, several colored vinyl options will be available as well to pre-order including orange, pink and a special purple version. "The Elephants Of Mars" has received critical acclaim, with Guitarist magazine calling the album "a multi-layered delight from start to finish." The video for first single, "Sahara", has been viewed over one million times since its release just a few weeks ago. Written in 2020 with all time constraints removed, "The Elephants Of Mars" truly represents the album that Satriani himself hoped he could deliver with his band. "We did everything," he said. "We tried the craziest ideas. And we entertained every notion we had about turning something backwards, upside down, seeing what could happen.” Similarly, the creative gates were wide open for all of the musicians to take liberties on the songs for "The Elephants Of Mars" and share a side of themselves they hadn't previously been able to. Satriani had an admirably productive workingman's holiday, with pandemic forced time away from the road, that ultimately gave him and his touring band, all recording remotely in separate areas of the world during lockdown, the ability to deliver an album length journey that never dulls. "The Elephants Of Mars" crackles with an exciting new energy, briskly traveling through stylistic roads that feel freshly updated, viewed through new eyes. The guitarist challenged himself to create a "new standard" for instrumental guitar albums to be measured against, one which would work from "a new platform of his own design," as he terms it. "I want to show people that an instrumental guitar album can contain far more creative and entertaining elements than I think people are using right now."