A 25–Year Celebration Tour was the twenty-fifth concert tour by Santana in 1991, celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band.
Tour band Alex Ligertwood – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (through April) Tony Lindsay – lead vocals (beginning April) Carlos Santana – lead guitar, percussion, vocals Chester D. Thompson – keyboards Benny Rietveld – bass guitar Walfredo Reyes Jr. – drums (through April) Gaylord Birch – drums (from April to June) Billy Johnson – drums (beginning June) Raul Rekow – congas, bongos, percussion, vocals Karl Perazzo – timbales, percussion, vocals (beginning April)
Set list The tour began on January 19 at the Rock in Rio II festival within the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and ended on November 3 at a Bill Graham memorial concert at the Polo Fields in San Francisco, California. This is an average set list of this tour:
"Mandela" (Armando Peraza) "It's a Jungle Out There" (Carlos Santana) "Somewhere in Heaven" (Alex Ligertwood, Santana) "Life Is for Living" (Pat Sefolosha) "Batuka" (José Areas, David Brown, Michael Carabello, Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve) "No One to Depend On" (Carabello, Coke Escovedo, Rolie, Willie Bobo, Melvin Lastie) "We Don't Have to Wait" (Santana, Armando Peraza, Thompson) "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green) "Gypsy Queen" (Gábor Szabó) "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente) "Right On" (Marvin Gaye, Earl DeRouen) "Peace on Earth...Mother Earth...Third Stone from the Sun" (John Coltrane, Santana, Jimi Hendrix) "Save the Children" (Bobby Womack) "Savor" (Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Shrieve) "Blues for Salvador" (Santana, Chester D. Thompson) "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" (Tom Coster, Santana) Encore "Jin-go-lo-ba" (Babatunde Olatunji)
Tour dates
Brazilian leg (January 19–24) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueJanuary 19Rio de JaneiroBrazilEstádio Jornalista Mário FilhoJanuary 24
U.S. leg (April 27 – May 11) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueApril 27Las VegasUnited StatesSam Boyd Silver BowlApril 28April 30San FranciscoWarfield TheatreMay 1May 10HonoluluWaikiki ShellMay 11LahainaRoyal Lahaina Tennis Stadium
Japan leg (May 15–22) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueMay 15OsakaJapanFestival HallMay 17FukuokaFukuoka SunpalaceMay 18AmagasakiAmagasaki-shi Sougou Bunka CenterMay 19NagoyaNagoya Civic Assembly HallMay 21TokyoNippon BudokanMay 22YokohamaKanagawa Kenmin Hall
U.S. leg (May 25–26) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueMay 25GeorgeUnited StatesChamps de Brionne Music TheatreMay 26PortlandPortland Civic Auditorium
Aruban show (June 16) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueJune 16OranjestadArubaDon Elias Mansur Ballpark
North American leg (June 20–28) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueJune 20Los AngelesUnited StatesGreek TheatreJune 21June 22June 25Mexico CityMexicoPalacio de los DeportesJune 26June 28DenverUnited StatesMile High Stadium
European leg (July 7–27) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueJuly 7ParisFranceZénith de ParisJuly 9AthensGreeceLeoforos Alexandras StadiumJuly 10LondonEnglandWembley ArenaJuly 12AschaffenburgGermanyUnterfrankenhalleJuly 13LeysinSwitzerlandPlace des FeuillesJuly 14LandshutGermanyETSV SporthalleJuly 15ViennaAustriaPraterstadionJuly 17CologneGermanyTanzbrunnenJuly 18HamburgFreilichtbühneJuly 19AalborgDenmarkProvstejordenJuly 20CopenhagenValby IdrætsparkJuly 21OdenseOdense UniversityJuly 23VienneFranceThéâtre AntiqueJuly 24Juan-les-PinsLa Pinède GouldJuly 25San SebastiánSpainVelódromo de AnoetaJuly 27LisbonPortugalEstádio José Alvalade
North American leg (August 30 – November 3) +List of tour dates with date, city, country, venueDate(1991)CityCountryVenueAugust 30Santa FeUnited StatesPaolo Soleri AmphitheaterAugust 31(2 shows)September 1TucsonPima County FairgroundsSeptember 2MesaMesa AmphitheatreSeptember 4BurbankStarlight BowlSeptember 6Costa MesaPacific AmphitheatreSeptember 7Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara BowlSeptember 8BerkeleyWilliam Randolph Hearst Greek TheatreSeptember 25HoustonRipley HouseSeptember 26DetroitFox TheatreSeptember 27TorontoCanadaMassey HallSeptember 28SyracuseUnited StatesCarrier DomeOctober 1SpringfieldSpringfield Civic CenterOctober 2BurlingtonBurlington Memorial AuditoriumOctober 4New York CityParamount TheaterOctober 5PalladiumOctober 6PhiladelphiaFairmount ParkOctober 30Mill ValleySweetwaterNovember 3San FranciscoPolo Fields
Box office score data +List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, referencesDate(1991)CityVenueAttendanceGrossApril 27Las Vegas, United StatesSam Boyd Silver Bowl79,000 / 79,000$1,856,500April 28June 20Los Angeles, United StatesGreek Theatre17,123 / 17,532$394,379June 21June 22September 28Syracuse, United StatesCarrier Dome25,000 / 25,000$562,500TOTAL121,123 / 121,532 (99%)$2,813,379
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References
External links Santana Past Shows 1991 at Santana official website