Review | Photos | Video: Fleetwood Mac Live in Nashville - March 18, 2015

Fleetwood Mac Offers a Smorgasbord of Nostalgia at Bridgestone Arena
by Jamie Hernandez
Nashville Scene

Photo by Jamie Hernandez

If Fleetwood Mac wanted to phone in last night’s show at the Bridgestone Arena, they totally could have. The crowd — predictably mostly middle-aged, mostly white — was the kind of crowd that would dance to anything. Before the band even took the stage, folks around us grooved to the anonymous instrumental house music, a sure sign that these people are ready to boogie to whatever is put in front of them. But Fleetwood Mac obviously has no interest in just getting through. This is a band that has persevered through decades of adversity; this is not a band who takes shortcuts.

From opening number “The Chain,” Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and, back after a 16-year absence, Christine McVie all flawlessly and seemingly effortlessly delivered the goods as though they were holding their proverbial middle fingers in the air and defying any onlooker to even contemplate uttering the phrase, “They still rock ... for a bunch of old folks.”

But it wasn’t just a collection of well-performed hits, played as though they were trapped in an unforgiving casino circuit driven by fans who can’t let go of the past. As a full band, Fleetwood Mac is incredible, yes, but they’re also such iconic musicians in their own right, and the remarkable thing about Wednesday night’s performance was that everyone had his or her own moment to shine, with obvious respect and support from their bandmates.

Continue to the full review at Nashville Scene - includes photo gallery

LANDSLIDE (Dedicated to Lindsey and Vanessa Carlton'S new daughter Sydney)
NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN
LITTLE LIES
GOLD DUST WOMAN

Photos Galleries: Fleetwood Mac Live in Austin, TX and Nashville, TN

Fleetwood Mac Live in Austin, TX - March 1, 2015

Photos by Nathan Malone

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Fleetwood Mac Live in Nashville, TN - March 18, 2015

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Fleetwood Mac New Zealand and Australia On With The Show Tour Dates

ON WITH THE SHOW TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2015

The rumours are true - the legendary Fleetwood Mac will bring their On With The Show World Tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

The On With The Show Tour will mark Fleetwood Mac’s first series of concert dates in Australia and New Zealand since 2009’s sold-out Unleashed Tour.

Touring as a five-piece for the first time since 1998, one of music’s most enduring groups of all time, Fleetwood Mac, will play a selection of arena, stadium and winery shows this October - November.

All five members of the classic 1975 lineup are back together, with Christine McVie rejoining band mates Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks after a 16-year absence.

Oct.22, 2015 - Allphones Arena Sydney Australia
Oct.24, 2015 - Allphones Arena Sydney Australia
Oct.30, 2015 - Domain Stadium Perth Australia
Nov. 2, 2015 - Rod Laver Arena Melbourne Australia
Nov. 4, 2015 - Rod Laver Arena Melbourne Australia
Nov. 7, 2015 - Mt. Duneed Estate Geelong Australia
Nov.10, 2015 - Brisbane Ent. Centre Boondall Australia
Nov.14, 2015 - Hope Estate Winery Pokolbin, Australia
Nov.18, 2015 - Forsyth Barr Stadium Dunedin, New Zealand
Nov.21,2015 - Mt Smart Stadium Auckland New Zealand

Amex Presale tickets on sale March 24th for NZ and March 26th for Australian shows. Livenation Presale begins March 27th for NZ shows and March 30th for Australia. Available via Live Nation

General public on sale tickets - April 1st for both Australia and New Zealand.

VIP Tickets and what the packages contain will be available via Live Nation 

REVIEW Fleetwood Mac Live in Nashville - March 18, 2015

Fleetwood Mac Live in Nashville, TN 

at Bridgestone Arena 

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Fleetwood Mac Rock Nashville at Sold Out show

by Dave Paulson

The Tennessean

Perhaps more than your average arena rocking act, Fleetwood Mac's reputation precedes them. There's the infamous backstory to their album "Rumours," made as several romantic relationships within the band were falling apart. There's also a mountain of classic tunes from that album and others – song titles that immediately leap to mind upon hearing the band's name.

But here's what Fleetwood Mac got to remind the sold-out crowd of at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday night: Fleetwood Mac is a band. A real band, and a remarkably powerful one, 40 years after they first became massive stars.

Sure, they've got a few side musicians and vocalists filling out the sound in the wings, but it was 67-year-old drummer Mick Fleetwood alone that was rattling the seats with his rhythms. Bassist John McVie (the other half of the band's namesake) laid down the thick foundation, guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham shredded and howled with glee, and frontwoman Stevie Nicks presided over the whole scene with a cosmic cool.

And what really made the set complete was the return of Christine McVie, the keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter who had been with Fleetwood Mac through their heyday. She returned to the band last year after a 16-year absence.

"In the beginning (of the tour), what I would say would be 'Welcome, Nashville, and welcome back, Chris,'" Nicks told the crowd. "…but now, at show number 66, I think we can positively say she's back!"

While it was heartwarming to see her back in the fold on "Little Lies" and to see that Fleetwood and Buckingham still pack a punch, for the bulk of the audience, the show still belonged to Stevie.

All it took were the opening strains of "Dreams," "Gold Dust Woman" or any other tune she took the lead on, and the room was back on its feet. She also provided a few candid moments in what seemed like a very, very tightly scripted show.

Before she and Buckingham played "Landslide," she recalled their musical life before joining Fleetwood Mac: as the duo Buckingham Nicks. They released a debut album in 1973, which she said "started to simmer" across the south.

"It started to do really well in Birmingham, Alabama, right when we were joining Fleetwood Mac. Had we not had Fleetwood Mac, we may very well have ended up here (in Nashville). And I think about that sometimes. We could have just as easily gone towards country music as towards serious rock and roll music, which is what we did. We could have very well ended up living here with 15 children and grandchildren, and being these two rock and roll people that ended up country people."

Instead, she and the rest of her band have had to settle for the cards they were dealt: wrapping up a sold-out arena concert with a couple of room-wide singalongs: "Don't Stop" and "Silver Springs." Those crowd-pleasers came after a half-hour slog of extended jams and solos, which certainly had their moments (Buckingham's shredtastic solo had the audience in full "Wayne's World" we're-not-worthy mode), but also a good chunk of filler.

Perhaps the band of serious players simply wanted to bring their A-game to Music City.

"I think we're more nervous about tonight than we were for Madison Square Garden, or the Forum," Nicks told them at one point. "I don't know why, but it's something."

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REVIEW Fleetwood Mac brought their On With the Show Tour to the Greensboro

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Fleetwood Mac enthusiastically together again
By Eddie Huffman/Special to News & Record

Stevie Nicks moved to the side of the stage to pound her tassled tambourine at the Greensboro Coliseum on Tuesday night while the other members of Fleetwood Mac wailed on “Go Your Own Way.” As she walked behind Christine McVie, Nicks gave her a gentle pat on the back.

 

It was a fleeting, seemingly offhand gesture, but it summed up the way the band members appear to feel about each other 40 years after this version of the group first coalesced. Christine McVie, who first joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970, returned last year after a 16-year absence. The rest of the group seemed delighted to have her back.

Full Review at News-Record.com

Fleetwood Mac bring the hits, Christine McVie to Greensboro
Triangle Music

The full classic lineup of Fleetwood Mac brought their On With the Show Tour to the Greensboro Coliseum last night and they brought nothing but hits, including all the great Christine McVie classics that her return has brought back to the set list.

The band kicked things off with "The Chain" and the hits poured out throughout the set. Each member's songs balance each other so well. Buckingham brought the intensity with "Tusk," "Big Love," "I'm So Afraid" and "Go Your Own Way." Nicks brings the ethereal magic with "Dreams," "Gypsy," "Sisters of the Moon" and "Gold Dust Woman." McVie brings a her fantastic pop tunes with "You Make Loving Fun," "Everywhere," Say You Love Me" and "Little Lies." They each compliment each other's tunes so well that it makes for a solid, dynamic set.

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THE FIRST SIX SONGS FROM THE SHOW
1.The Chain
2.You Make Loving Fun
3.Dreams
4.Second Hand News
5.Rhiannon
6.Everywhere

GYPSY (WITH INTRO)

Stevie Nicks to receive Outstanding Achievement Award from USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) March 16, 2015
USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore’s 34th Annual Awards Dinner Salutes Medal of Honor Recipients and Celebrities

30 Medal of Honor Recipients from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan; Writer-Producer Sebastian Junger; Singer-Songwriter Stevie Nicks; Quarterback Peyton Manning To be Recognized for Their Support of Troops and Their Families

WHAT:    2015 USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore 33rd Annual Awards Dinner
WHEN:    Tuesday, March 24, 2015 , 5:00p.m. Media Availability 7:00p.m. Program begins
WHERE: Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson David Highway, Arlington, Va. 22202

WHO: The USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore (USO-Metro) is proud to partner with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to salute Medal of Honor recipients, celebrities and citizens for their extraordinary service during its 34rd Annual Awards Dinner on March 24, 2015 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. Nearly 30 Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan will be recognized, as well as private citizens who will be honored for going “above and beyond,” both on and off the battlefield.

Honorees include the following in order of award presentation: 

Legacy of Hope Award: Sebastian Junger, war correspondent, best-selling author, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and one of America's most acclaimed writers, embodies the spirit of this award. Junger will be honored for his heart-wrenching storytelling of the challenges military members endure during combat and upon returning home through his writing and production of the non-fiction movie trilogy: Restrepo, Korengal and The Last Patrol.

Outstanding Achievement Award: Stevie Nicks, singer and songwriter, holds the record for the most hours spent over a five-year period visiting combat-wounded service members as part of USO-Metro’s celebrity handshake tours. Over the years, Nicks has donated hundreds of iPods filled with music to those recovering at the then Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. Nicks was so moved by her hospital visits that she wrote the song “Soldier’s Angel” which was released as a single in 2011 and appears on her album “In Your Dreams.” Nicks will also present USO-Metro’s Col. John Gioia Patriot Award to Seema Reza.

Col. John Gioia Patriot Award: Seema Reza, poet and essayist, has spent years working with wounded, ill and injured service members at military hospitals and USO Warrior and Family Centers at Fort Belvoir and Bethesda. Reza conducts workshops to help service members recovering from visible and invisible wounds express themselves through art, writing, film and music. Reza will read a poem about her personal experiences working with these service members to a performance by Grammy-nominated, progressive hip-hop and multi-instrumentalist Christylez Bacon.

USO Merit Award: Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, is being recognized for dedicating his time to boost morale of our troops through a USO tour which included stops in Afghanistan, Kuwait and the USS John C. Stennis (CVN74). As part of USO-Metro’s celebrity handshake tours, Manning has visited wounded, ill and injured service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda. Celebrity Chef Robert Irvine, the 2014 USO Merit Award recipient, will introduce the award.

The Boeing Company serves as the evening's Presenting Sponsor, while DynCorp International is the event’s first Gold Sponsor. USO-Metro’s Annual Awards Dinner is attended by senior government and military leaders, celebrities and community leaders. Miss America 2015 Kira Kazantsev will perform the national anthem.