LYNYRD SKYNYRD LAST OF THE STREET SURVIVORS FAREWELL TOUR

with very special guest Randy Bachman Band

Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. – Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre

Tickets are available Friday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m.

Earlier this year Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd, announced that, after a career that has spanned more than 40 years and includes a catalog of more than 60 albums with more than 30 million units sold, they would embark on their Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the two-year farewell tour will have logged over 50 stops by the end of 2018 and will now include a visit to Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday, March 2.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.Ticketmaster.ca, www.canadiantirecentre.com, by phone at 1-877-788-FANS (3267), in person at The Sens Store at Carlingwood Mall, Place d’Orléans and in the ByWard Market or at the Canadian Tire Centre box office. The Canadian Tire Centre box office does not sell tickets in-person on the first day of sales, Ottawa Senators hockey excluded.

The blockbuster farewell tour will continue to take the band across the globe through the remainder of this year and all of next year, giving fans one last unforgettable night of classic music. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced today a full run of tour dates in Canada for 2019. U.S. and European tour dates for next year will be announced soon.

Johnny Van Zant, Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke sat down with Dan Rather for a candid conversation in the latest episode of The Big Interview. Filmed during the first leg of their farewell tour, which began in May, the episode found the trio reflecting on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s enduring legacy and their loyal fans around the world.

Rossington told Rather, “It takes a long time to finish a farewell tour when you’re like us, because we’ve played everywhere … I keep joking it’d take ten years to do the farewell tour.” He continues, “But then after that, after a few years of doing’ [the farewell tour], we’re going to do a new record. So, we won’t go away, but we won’t be touring every year like we do.”

Numerous friends, including but not limited to; Kid Rock, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Daniels Band, Bad Company, Marshall Tucker Band, 38 Special, Blackberry Smoke, Blackfoot and Randy Bachman Band, will continue as special guests on the farewell tour. The tour derives its name from their song, The Last of the Street Survivors and the band’s fifth studio album, Street Survivors, that is certified multi-platinum by the RIAA and includes the platinum-certified single, What’s Your Name.

The Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour marks a big moment for generations of fans, as Lynyrd Skynyrd has been touring consistently since the 1990s. The band, that USA Today called the “whiskey-soaked genre’s most popular and influential crew,” is ready to rock one last time. The farewell tour will take original member Rossington joined by Van Zant, Medlocke, Mark “Sparky” Matejka, Michael Cartellone, Keith Christopher, Peter Keys, Dale Krantz Rossington, Carol Chase and special guest Jim Horn across the country over the next two years.

The Southern rockers are best known for the RIAA platinum-certified Sweet Home Alabama and self-proclaimed signature song, Free Bird, that Rolling Stone said was “easily the most requested live song in existence.” With everlasting hits such as Simple Man, Gimme Three Steps, What’s Your Name, Call Me The Breeze, You Got That Right, and more, it’s easy to see why Rolling Stone named Lynyrd Skynyrd one of its 100 Greatest Bands of All Time.

LYNYRD SKYNYRD – LAST OF THE STREET SURVIVORS FAREWELL TOUR CANADIAN DATES

*All dates, cities and venues below subject to change

March 2 – Ottawa, Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre

March 5 – London, Ont., Budweiser Gardens

March 8 – Winnipeg, Bell MTS Place

March 9 – Regina, Brandt Centre

March 12 – Edmonton, Rogers Place

March 13 – Calgary, Scotiabank Saddledome

March 15 – Abbotsford, B.C., Abbotsford Centre

About Lynyrd Skynyrd

Original members Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington and Larry Junstrom formed the band in 1964, originally known as My Backyard, the band changed to its famous name in the early 1970s, and became popular in the Jacksonville, Fla. area, where the original members were from. They signed with Sounds of the South Records in 1972, and released their self-titled disc the following year. The album that featured Free Bird, arguably the most-recognized single in the Southern rock genre, has sold more than two million units since its release. Later down the road the band recorded iconic tracks Sweet Home Alabama and What’s Your Name.

The band’s story took a tragic turn in October 1977 when a plane crash took the lives of Van Zant, Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines and several of their road crew. The band took a decade-long hiatus before reuniting for a tour and live album, Southern by the Grace of God. Since then, the band has toured and recorded extensively, with their most recent release being Last Of A Dyin’ Breed. The band’s current lineup includes original member Rossington, Johnny Van Zant, Rickey Medlocke, Mark “Sparky” Matejka, Michael Cartellone, Keith Christopher, Peter Keys, Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.