Concert Tour

Babs is coming to the Bowl.  As part of her 2012 concert tour -- her first in five years -- Barbra Streisand has added a performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Nov. 9. The 8 p.m. concert is the only scheduled Los Angeles stop on the tour. The concert is expected to feature the 70-year-old singer performing some of her most famous numbers, as well as appearances by jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and the operatic pop tenor group Il Volo.  PHOTOS: 2012 Hollywood Bowl highlights Streisand's tour includes stops in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, Las Vegas and San Jose.  The Streisand concert is a lease event, so isn't part of the L.A. Philharmonic's Bowl season, which is set to conclude later this month.

The 50th anniversary of t he Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory concerts in England and northeastern U.S. The celebration extends into 2013 with a slate of shows on the 50 and Counting tour due to get underway May 2 at Staples Center in Los Angeles -...

The concert business was hit in 2010 by some of the same tough economic times that have been gripping other factions in the music industry in recent years, but New Jersey rock group Bon Jovi has reason to pop the Champagne anyway. FOR THE RECORD: Pop music tours: An article in the Dec. 29 Calendar section about the top-grossing pop music tours of 2010 said Paul McCartney's North American tour grossed $61.8 million over 42 shows in 38 cities. The former Beatle took in that amount from 21 shows in 16 North American cities.

Madonna was queen of the world in 2012, at least as far as touring pop music performers, delivering the highest-grossing concert tour of the year and raking in nearly $300 million at the box office worldwide, according to Pollstar, the concert-industry tracking magazine. Madonna's MDNA tour visited 67 cities for 88 performances that grossed $296.1 million, an average of $4.4 million a night, Pollstar's data shows. Her average ticket price was just over $140, far from the priciest concert tickets of the year.

Genesis will reunite next year for a "Turn It on Again" tour of Europe, its first tour in 15 years. The 20-date stadium tour, announced Tuesday, will open in Helsinki, Finland, on June 11 and end with a free concert in front of the Colosseum in Rome on July 14. Genesis last toured in 1991. A series of U.S. dates will follow the European tour, said Phil Collins, 55, Mike Rutherford, 56, and Tony Banks, 56.

Van Cliburn made some mistakes in the opening of his signature piece, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, but dazzled his audience to the end as he gave a preview of his first concert tour in 16 years. Clad in black tails and bow tie, the virtuoso, who is scheduled to perform at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, received five ovations Saturday night as he played to a near-capacity crowd of 4,600 at the outdoor Embarcadero Marina Park South.

Three blocks west of George Burns Drive on Beverly Boulevard, in the California Room of Chasen's, where they once were known to hold court until closing time, the three best-known survivors of the Rat Pack reconvened Tuesday. Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.

The 50th anniversary of t he Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory concerts in England and northeastern U.S. The celebration extends into 2013 with a slate of shows on the 50 and Counting tour due to get underway May 2 at Staples Center in Los Angeles -...

Billionaire Philip Anschutz's plan to sell off his AEG entertainment division raises a major question about the fate of the company's AEG Live subsidiary, the concert industry's No. 2 powerhouse. The multifaceted AEG owns, operates and exclusively books dozens of venues across the country, controls stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings sports franchises and promotes hundreds of concerts and other live entertainment events each year. Industry veterans are speculating whether AEG will remain as a single entity under new ownership or be split into several pieces and be sold off. Among AEG Live's most prized concert world components are Staples Center in Los Angeles, the O2 Arena in London and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, of which it shares ownership with festival founder Paul Tollett.

Prince opened his "Lovesexy" world concert tour in Paris this weekend with a three-night stand. Concert dates are set for Milan, Marbella, and London in July, and Helsinki, Stockholm, Hamburg and Rotterdam in August.

Forbes has just issued its annual ranking of the highest-earning women in music, and heading the list is Britney Spears, whose $58 million from May 2011 through May 2012 outranked all others. It is, however, about 30% less than the $90 million that Lady Gaga earned the previous year to top the magazine's 2011 roster. Spears generated most of her $58 million from her “Femme Fatale” concert tour and album, along with additional revenue from her Elizabeth Arden fragrance line and other product endorsements.

NEW YORK - At Ripley-Grier Studios, a cramped rehearsal space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, girls dressed in leotards dart in and out of the lobby to and from dance lessons, pretending not to notice the mighty star in their midst. Tony-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth - all 4 feet, 11 inches and 91 pounds of her - sits patiently alongside the stage mothers , waiting for a pianist to arrive. If, like the aspiring performers around her, Chenoweth is a little anxious, it's with good reason: Less than four months after a freak accident on the set of "The Good Wife" left her with a litany of head and body injuries, she's returning to the stage.

[ Updated at 2 p.m. Oct. 5: The 2012 Railroad Revival Tour has been canceled. Ticket holders will receive a full refund by Oct. 21.] Willie Nelson is going on the road again -- with his fans. Band of Horses , Jamey Johnson , John Reilly & Friends and other performers join him on stage next month for a series of concerts from Duluth, Ga., to Oakland. Folks can ride along on seven individual legs of the Railroad Revival Tour 2012 by buying tickets that come with a sleeping berth, concert tickets and some VIP perks, too. The private rail tour begins Oct. 19 in New Orleans and shuttles to Duluth, home of the vintage Southeastern Railway Museum (you get a private tour)

Billionaire Philip Anschutz's plan to sell off his AEG entertainment division raises a major question about the fate of the company's AEG Live subsidiary, the concert industry's No. 2 powerhouse. The multifaceted AEG owns, operates and exclusively books dozens of venues across the country, controls stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings sports franchises and promotes hundreds of concerts and other live entertainment events each year. Industry veterans are speculating whether AEG will remain as a single entity under new ownership or be split into several pieces and be sold off. Among AEG Live's most prized concert world components are Staples Center in Los Angeles, the O2 Arena in London and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, of which it shares ownership with festival founder Paul Tollett.

The third season of "Downton Abbey" premiered across the pond Sunday night, and the sky-high ratings suggest that fans haven't tired of the soapy period piece. Approximately 8.6 million viewers tuned into to ITV1, the network that airs "Downton Abbey" in Britain, to watch Shirley MacLaine make her first appearance as Martha Levinson, the wealthy American mother of Lady Cora (Elizabeth McGovern). Those numbers would be impressive stateside, but they're even more dazzling given the much smaller size of the British television audience.

Babs is coming to the Bowl.  As part of her 2012 concert tour -- her first in five years -- Barbra Streisand has added a performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Nov. 9. The 8 p.m. concert is the only scheduled Los Angeles stop on the tour. The concert is expected to feature the 70-year-old singer performing some of her most famous numbers, as well as appearances by jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and the operatic pop tenor group Il Volo.  PHOTOS: 2012 Hollywood Bowl highlights Streisand's tour includes stops in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, Las Vegas and San Jose.  The Streisand concert is a lease event, so isn't part of the L.A. Philharmonic's Bowl season, which is set to conclude later this month.

The Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin-Sammy Davis Jr. "Together Again" concert tour hits Los Angeles July 7, when the trio kicks off a four-day engagement at the Universal Amphitheatre, it was announced Wednesday. The 29-city concert tour, notable for avoiding Las Vegas and Atlantic City, begins March 13 at the Oakland Coliseum and ends its spring leg April 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The fall leg of the tour begins in Houston on Sept. 17 and ends Oct. 11 in Buffalo, N.Y.

The crooning, adolescent faces in boy bands One Direction and the Wanted continue to dazzle the world over, and while the Ministry has been busy with Brangelina engagements and such, we've decided to take notice. Both groups, of British-Irish origin, have deftly recruited their own screaming fans and triggered a nostalgia in those folks who that grew up with the Backstreet Boys, 'NSync and 98 Degrees.  The cultural inclination is, naturally, to assume a massive feud exists between the two young groups (complete with physical confrontations )

When Deborah Borda, president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, talks about her orchestra's 10-day concert tour to Venezuela that begins Friday, she uses two pointed descriptive terms. One is "critical mass. " Another, delivered with a chuckle, is "insane. " She also might have added potentially "transformative" and, perhaps, "risky. " Borda calls the tour, a multi-pronged endeavor built around the L.A. Phil's performances of Gustav Mahler's nine finished symphonies, "the biggest thing we've done since we opened Walt Disney Concert Hall" in 2003.