Collectively ten-time Grammy Award-winning vocal group The Manhattan Transfer are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a new studio album, aptly titled Fifty, which is set for release on September 23 digitally and October 21 on CD, via Craft Recordings. The group have also announced that they will embark on their final worldwide tour with the new album.
For the new album, the group partnered with Germany’s WDR Funkhausorchester Köln (WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne), plus symphony arrangers Jorge Callandreli and Vince Mendoza, as well as vocal arrangers including Amanda Taylor of säje, in order to revisit their catalog highlights through the decades, including new arrangements of “Chanson D’Amour,” “Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone” and “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul.” Fifty also features two classic covers: George and Ira Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” and The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows,” which has been released as a single.
The Manhattan Transfer Tour Dates 2022–2023
October 2022 – U.S. TOUR
October 7- Modesto, CA – Gallo Center for the Arts, Mary Stuart Rogers Theater (Quartet Date)
October 9 – Broken Arrow, OK – Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center
October 10 – Mason City, IA – North Iowa Community Auditorium (with special guests The DIVA Jazz Orchestra)
October 12 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre
October 13 – Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place
October 14 – Fish Creek, WI – Door Community Auditorium
October 15 – Skokie, IL – North Shore Center for the Performing Arts (with special guests The DIVA Jazz Orchestra)
October 16 – Peoria, IL – Scottish Rite Theater
October 21 – Sarasota, FL – Sailor Circus Arena
October 22 – Pinecrest, FL – Pinecrest Gardens Banyon Bowl
October 23 – Stuart FL – Lyric Theatre
November 2022 – EUROPEAN TOUR
November 10 – Hyvinkäa, FINLAND -Hyvinkää Sali
November 11 – Oulu, FINLAND – Madetojin Sali
November 12 – Kuopio, FINLAND – Musikkikeskus
November 14 – Tampere, FINLAND
November 15 – Turku, FINLAND
November 16 – Jyväskyla, FINLAND
November 17 – Helsinki, FINLAND
November 19 – Malmö, SWEDEN
November 20 – Malmö, SWEDEN
November 21 – Stockholm, SWEDEN
November 24 – London, UK – Queen Elizabeth Hall
November 26 – Örebro PW –
November 27 – Örebro PW –
November 29 – Notteroy – CSB
December 2022 – U.S. TOUR
December 16-17 – Costa Mesa, CA – Symphony Christmas (with Symphony) – Segerstrom Hall
December 22 – Santa Fe, NM – Lensic Theatre
2023
January 2023
January 8 – Huntsville AL – Library Theatre
January 10 – Avon Park, FL – Alan J. Wildstein Center for the Performing Arts
January 12 – Tallahassee, FL – Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State Univ
January 13 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Parker Playhouse, Broward Center
January 14 – Clearwater, FL – Capitol Theatre
January 15 – Ocala, FL – Reilly Arts Center
January 26–29 – Seattle, WA Jazz Alley – (The Manhattan Transfer 50th and Farewell to Jazz Alley)
March 2023
March 24 – Bethesda, MD – The Music Center at Strathmore
March 25 – Reading, PA – Berks Jazz Fest
March 26 – Greensburg, PA – Palace Theater
