Legendary Jeff Lynne’s ELO Snubs Florida On Farewell Tour In 2024
Many bands offer their fans a chance to get to see them on their final tours. This means planning appearances all over. Sadly, one band is leaving Florida off their farewell tour, and that is Jeff Lynne’s ELO.
That is Jeff Lynne’s ELO ‘Over and Out’ Tour, which marks the end of a run that began in 1972. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, led by Jeff Lynne, are making 27 tour stops across the United States, plus a couple of Canadian shows.
The tour kicks off on August 24 in Palm Desert, California, and crisscrosses its way around North America until it returns to California to finish in Los Angeles on October 25. However, the Tampa Bay area did not land on the tour. In fact, no Florida venues landed on the tour schedule. The closest tour date to Florida will be October 12 in Atlanta, Georgia.
We don’t know why Florida, the third-largest by population in the country, was left out. Will they add some more dates to their farewell tour? We’ll keep an eye on Jeff Lynne’s ELO tour news and announce anything we learn.
Electric Light Orchestra, now known as Jeff Lynne’s ELO recorded great classic songs such as “Roll over Beethoven,” “Evil Woman,” “Livin’ Thing,” “Do Ya,” “Telephone Line,” “Turn to Stone,” “Sweet Talkin’ Woman,” “Don’t Bring Me Down,” and “Hold On Tight.”
If that wasn’t enough, they were featured on the soundtrack soundtrack of 1980’s Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John. That soundtrack included “I’m Alive,” “Xanadu,” and “All Over The World.”
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Jeff Lynne was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 15, 2023 in New York City. As leader of Jeff Lynne’s ELO, formerly Electric Light Orchestra, he wrote nearly all of the band’s hits.
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Here are the tour dates as shown on Jeff Lynne’s ELO website.
August 24 – Palm Desert, CA
August 27 – Seattle, WA
August 28 – Vancouver, BC
August 30 – Portland, OR
September 1 – San Francisco, CA
September 6 – St. Louis, MO
September 7 – Indianapolis, IN
September 9 – Toronto, ON
September 10 – Pittsburgh, PA
September 13 – Cincinnati, OH
September 14 – Cleveland, OH
September 16 – New York, NY
September 20 – Philadelphia, PA
September 23 – Boston, MA
September 25 – Washington, DC
September 27 – Chicago, IL
September 30 – St, Paul, MN
October 2 – Denver, CO
October 9 – Detroit, MI
October 11 – Nashville, TN
October 12 – Atlanta, GA
October 15 – Austin, TX
October 16 – Houston, TX
October 18 – Dallas, TX
October 21 – Phoenix, AZ
October 23 – Sacramento, CA
October 25 – Los Angeles, CA