Allen Toussaint played Joe's Pub (pics, video, setlist), on tour w/ Preservation Hall Jazz Band this fall (dates, tix on sale)

photos by Greg Cristman

Allen Toussaint @ Joe’s Pub, 8/10/2014

While most of his best-known songs were made famous by other performers, producer, arranger, hitmaker and general New Orleans living legend Allen Toussaint in no small way helped shape not only the sound of that city’s R&B scene but of rock n’ roll and pop music in general. You forget just how many famous songs he had his talented fingers in — “Working in the Coalmine”, “Ride Your Pony,” “Fortune Teller” and “Mother in Law” to name four — until he plays them all, which he did at this solo Sunday brunch show at Joe’s Pub (8/10). Pictures, setlist and video from that set are in this post.

Toussaint will on the road this fall with another famed New Orleans outfit: The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Titled the “Oh Yeah!” Tour, this will be a combined show, with lots of interaction between the two legends. The tour hits NYC on November 1 at Music Hall of Williamsburg and tickets are on sale now.

All tour dates — including ones in NJ and Purchase, NY — are listed, along with more pics from Toussaint’s show at Joe’s Pub, below…

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Allen Toussaint

Videos

Allen Toussaint- We Are America/Yes We Can, Live at Joe’s Pub, NYC 2014-08-10

Allen Toussaint- All These Things, Live at Joe’s Pub, NYC 2014-08-10

Allen Toussaint- Fortune Teller/Working In The Coal Mine/Certain Girl, Live at Joe’s Pub

SETLIST: Allen Toussaint @ Joe’s Pub 8/10/2014
There Is No New York Without You
Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)
We Are America/Yes We Can
All These Things
Certain Girl/Mother-in-Law/Fortune Teller/Working in a Coal Mine/Certain Girl
I Could Eat Crawfish Everyday
Lipstick Traces
Instrumental medley
Big Chief
Slap Her Down Again Pa
City of New Orleans
Mr. Mardi Gras
Ride Your Pony
Southern Nights
Iko Iko
No Place Like New York
Southern Nights

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Allen Toussaint – 2014 Tour Dates
10/8 – East Lansing, MI @ Wharton PAC
10/9 – Traverse City, MI @ City Opera House
10/10 – Detroit, MI @ Music Hall for the Performing Arts
10/11 – Muncie, IN @ Emens Auditorium
10/14 – Cleveland, OH @ Music Box Supper Club
10/15 – Buffalo, NY @ Shea’s Performing Arts Center
10/16 – Bradford, PA @ Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center
10/17 – Lewisburg, PA @ Weis Center
10/18 – Lansdale, PA @ North Penn High School
10/19 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre
10/21 – St. Johnsbury, VT @ Fuller Hall
10/22 – Morristown, NJ @ Mayo Performing Arts Center
10/24 – Purchase, NY @ SUNY Purchase – PepsiCo Theatre
10/25 – Hillside, NJ @ Kean University
10/26 – Boston, MA @ Berklee Performance Center
10/28 – Bel Air, MD @ APG Federal Credit Union
10/29 – Richmond, VA @ Modlin PAC
10/30 – Charlottesville, VA @ Paramount Theater
11/1 – New York, NY @ Williamsburg Music Hall
11/2 – Fairfax, VA @ George Mason University – Concert Hall
11/4 – Roanoke, VA @ Shaftman Performance Hall
11/5 – Newport News, VA
11/6 – Durham, NC @ Duke University – Page Auditorium
11/7 – Atlanta, GA @ Ferst Center for the Arts
11/8 – Oxford, AL @ Oxford Performing Arts Center Hall
11/10 – Birmingham, AL @ Wright Center – Stamford University
11/13 – Tucson, AZ @ University of Arizona – Centennial Hall
11/14 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Piper Theater
11/15 – Irvine, CA @ Irvine Barclay
11/16 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up
11/18 – Santa Rosa, CA @ Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
11/19 – Folsom, CA @ Harris Center
11/20 – Livermore, CA @ Bankhead Theater
11/21 – Chico, CA @ Laxson Auditorium
11/22-11/23 – San Francisco, CA @ SF Jazz
11/28-11/29 – Santa Monica, CA @ Broad Stage