The tour will begin next February 2025 in America and for 11 weeks will travel through Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.
In his recent meeting with the public Joaquin Sabina He offered, once morest all odds, the most resounding tour of his long career, where the enthusiasm, professionalism and experience of the maestro from Úbeda overcame the initial vertigo, spreading joy and energy to his musicians, imbuing the performances with an unusual and flushed sensitivity and winning over a respectable audience – more than 700,000 people in almost 60 concerts in a dozen countries on both sides of the pond – who were enthusiastic, excited and moved to that point of magical alchemy where fervent applause, tears of emotion and that costalero spirit with which, if it had been possible, they would have carried him on shoulders following each of the recitals come together. In the heat of that honey and for the simple courtesy of not leaving the party without saying goodbye, Joaquín Sabina has decided to go back on stage to say hello for the last time before lowering the curtain. A tour where we can tell ourselves, where we can tell ourselves, HELLO AND GOODBYE.
With this new tour, the exact dates of which will be announced soon, Sabina gives us the opportunity to say goodbye to some songs that, although they are too young for the eternity that awaits them and that, being so ours, no longer seem to come from a singer-songwriter, but from the very sources of popular tradition, resisting the passage of successive generations unscathed, will never once more be sung in front of thousands of people by their own author, who retires his facet as a globetrotter with guitar in hand, celebrating his own survival with this farewell invitation. However, like the gambler who knows his cards and how to play them, Joaquín anticipates that following this HELLO AND GOODBYE There will be no more endless journeys through crowded venues, but he has up his sleeve the ace of reappearing at will, either because the muses whisper poems or songs worth sharing, or because he gets the urge to get up on any stage to give himself, give us, a tribute.
Sabina hangs with HELLO AND GOODBYE her leather gloves of poetry and late-night guitar filled with the dust of the road and the blanket, with the intense carmine of a thousand times a thousand and one nights, patched so many times with the thread of defeat and the thread of hope, and prepared to offer us a final emotional knockout of more than two hours in length with twenty or so songs that are already universal prayers of the impossible dream of love and of wanting to get your hands on life. HELLO AND GOODBYE It will be the multitudinous farewell to a throat that, without distilling, exudes impious and shameless truth; to a bowler hat that is synonymous with dandyish roguery and roguish chivalry; to an iconic silhouette outlined with cigarette smoke and whiskey without soda. Of course, that outdated essence will never stop writing the stories and songs that will always haunt his mind. The profession of the poet does not intend to retire, nor does that of the nocturnal creator.
With HELLO AND GOODBYE, Sabina’s return to the ring closes a circle that spans half a century since his first public appearances, when he was on the street in the London Underground, during his self-exile in the final days of Franco’s regime. An uncertain starting point for someone who, following riding on the back of the dizzying eighties with a beautiful urban lyricism that exceeded the scope of the singer-songwriter, crossed the border of prophet in his own land during the nineties to definitively enter the new millennium under the category of international myth: from Tierra del Fuego to the Sonoran Desert, preceded by a dissolute legend and a solid and impressive torrent of indelible songs housed in a totemic discography that, as has already been happening, will continue to be studied in the books of the History of the popular heritage.
That City subway had stops in store for Joaquín at the most legendary stages in the world: the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Luna Park and La Bombonera in Buenos Aires, the Olympia in Paris, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the National Auditorium and the Zócalo in Mexico City, the Madison Square Garden in New York, the Wizink and Las Ventas in Madrid… Venues, some of which, will once once more feel, for the last time, the light weight of Flaco, the heavy weight of his songs, in this next and definitive HELLO AND GOODBYE.
The tour will begin in February 2025 in America and will last 11 weeks through Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. After a short break, the tour will continue on to Spain and Europe, until its end in November. The dates, cities and ticket sales will be announced in July for America and in September for Spain.