AMERICA
BRINGS THEIR “ENCORE TOUR 2025”
TO THE VIRGIN HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
The iconic multi-platinum-selling group AMERICA will bring their “Encore Tour 2025” to The Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas on Friday, September 26.
- AMERICA is celebrating their 55th anniversary with a series of tour dates in 2025 with original member Dewey Bunnell at the helm. Billed as “Encore Tour 2025,” it launched March 7 in Atlantic City, NJ and will continue throughout the year, with many more shows to be added coast to coast. Known for their timeless magic and powerful performances, the Grammy Award-winning perennial classic-rock favorite will draw on their deep catalog of hits including signature song “A Horse With No Name,” a Number One hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1972. Their tour dates are HERE.
- The band is now the subject of a new documentary I Need You: 53 Years Of The Band America. After 53 consecutive years of touring and over 5000 electrifying performances, the original members of ‘America’ are ready to reflect on their remarkable journey. The documentary takes audiences backstage as Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell privately say goodbye to a lifetime together on the road (Beckley remains an active member of the band but retired from touring in 2024). The documentary is currently making the rounds at film festivals this year after winning the Audience Award at Newport Beach Film Festival for “Best Music Film.” Read the press release about the documentary HERE.
- Last year, the band released a live album, America – Live From The Hollywood Bowl 1975 (Primary Wave Music; distributed by Sun Records). Read about it HERE.
Background Info on AMERICA
On their way to becoming a global household name, AMERICA‘s journey found them exploring a wide variety of musical terrain. Their best-known tunes, which also include “I Need You,” “Ventura Highway,” “Don’t Cross The River,” “Tin Man,” “Lonely People,” and “Sister Golden Hair” were cornerstones of 1970’s Top 40 and FM rock radio. Yet beyond their impressive catalog of hits, listeners would discover there was always much more to AMERICA than surface perceptions. The combination of melodic pop rock and folk-jazz elements, slinky Latin-leaning rhythms and impressionistic lyric imagery contrasted well with other more traditional country-rock leanings and highly personal lyrics.
AMERICA‘s albums–six certified gold and/or platinum, with their first greatest hits collection, History, hitting four plus million in sales–displayed a fuller range of the trio’s talents than did their singles. Their material encompassed an ambitious artistic swath; from effects-laden rockers to oddball medleys to soul-bearing ballads, AMERICA displayed a flawless blend of disparate genres and styles as wide-open as the great American plains.
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America Touring Band, photographed at pre-tour rehearsal
L to R: Richard Campbell, Ryland Steen, Dewey Bunnell (front),
Andy Barr, Steve Fekete
Photo Credit: Courtesy of America