Madison Sq. Backyard Leisure Corp. (‘MSG Leisure’) introduced at present that by overwhelming demand, legendary musician and MSG franchise Billy Joel has added the following present in his record-breaking, sold-out residency at The World’s Most Well-known Enviornment on Thursday, March 28, 2024.
The March present will mark Joel’s a hundredth month-to-month and 146th lifetime present at The Backyard. After ten extraordinary years, Joel’s historic franchise run at The Backyard will conclude together with his a hundred and fiftieth lifetime present on the venue, which is slated for July 2024.
Citi cardmembers could have first entry to presale tickets for the March 28 present from Monday, October 9 at 10:00AM (ET) via Thursday, October 12 at 10:00PM (ET) by way of www.citientertainment.com. Tickets can be accessible for buy by most of the people starting at 10:00AM (ET) on Friday, October 13 by way of www.ticketmaster.com. As a result of congestion through the on-sale, it may be tough to buy tickets immediately. Please proceed to test Ticketmaster as tickets can be accessible all through the day.
The remaining introduced exhibits are as follows:
OCTOBER 20, 2023 – 8:00PM – SOLD OUT – TEN SHOWS LEFT!
NOVEMBER 22, 2023 – 8:00PM – SOLD OUT – NINE SHOWS LEFT!
DECEMBER 19, 2023 – 8:00PM – SOLD OUT – EIGHT SHOWS LEFT!
JANUARY 11, 2024 – 8:00PM – SOLD OUT – SEVEN SHOWS LEFT!
FEBRUARY 9, 2024 – 8:00PM – SOLD OUT – SIX SHOWS LEFT!
MARCH 28, 2024 – 8:00PM – FIVE SHOWS LEFT!
Joel’s historical past with Madison Sq. Backyard started together with his first efficiency at The World’s Most Well-known Enviornment on December 14, 1978. In 2006, with 12 consecutive performances, Joel set the document for “most consecutive performances by any artist.” To commemorate the historic second, a banner stating “Joel – 12” was raised to The Backyard rafters, making him the primary entertainer within the venue’s historical past to perform this feat.
In December 2013, Billy Joel was named Madison Sq. Backyard’s first-ever music franchise, becoming a member of the ranks of the storied venue’s different unique franchises – the New York Knicks and New York Rangers. The record-breaking residency started in January 2014 with Joel enjoying one present each month at The Backyard for, as Joel mentioned on the time, “so long as the demand continues.”
In January 2015, Joel broke his personal document of the “most consecutive performances by any artist” with the thirteenth present of the residency and a brand new banner was raised to The Backyard’s rafters. In July 2015, together with his sixty fifth lifetime present, Joel broke one other document for the “most lifetime performances by any artist,” for which one other banner was raised. Each of Joel’s banners proceed to hold at The Backyard and are changed every month with every efficiency.
In July 2018, to commemorate his a hundredth lifetime efficiency on the venue, then Governor Andrew M. Cuomo formally proclaimed July 18, 2018 “Billy Joel Day” within the State of New York in honor of Joel’s extraordinary historical past of management and contributions to the music trade and New York State. As a part of the celebration, Joel’s piano was placed on show outdoors of Chase Sq. on the Seventh Avenue entrance to The Backyard.
The a hundredth lifetime efficiency was one for the ages – with Bruce Springsteen becoming a member of Joel on stage to have a good time the milestone. A mess of different unbelievable shock company have joined him on stage all through the course of the ten-year run together with Miley Cyrus, Jimmy Fallon, John Fogerty, Billy Gibbons, Brian Johnson, John Mayer, John Mellencamp, Olivia Rodrigo, Paul Simon, and extra. And, all through the course of his legendary run, greater than 1.6 million tickets have been bought to followers from all 50 states and greater than 120 international locations – additional establishing Joel’s standing as a world icon.
Along with his ongoing residency run, Joel has additionally carried out alongside different music greats at two of Madison Sq. Backyard’s most extraordinary profit live shows – “12-12-12, The Live performance For Sandy Aid,” which raised consciousness and cash for these affected by Hurricane Sandy, and “The Live performance for New York Metropolis,” which was held to assist help 9/11 victims and heroes.
Billy Joel is without doubt one of the world’s most iconic musicians, having acquired The Kennedy Middle Honors, one of many United States’ prime cultural awards, in December 2013. He’s additionally the recipient of six GRAMMY® Awards, together with the distinguished Grammy Legend Award. Joel has been inducted into the Songwriter’s Corridor of Fame and the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and has acquired quite a few trade awards together with a TONY AWARD for “Movin’ Out,” a Broadway musical based mostly on Joel’s music. For his accomplishments as a musician and as a humanitarian, Joel was honored because the 2002 MusiCares Particular person Of The 12 months by the MusiCares Basis and the Nationwide Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
In November 2014, Billy Joel acquired each The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Common Music which honors dwelling musical artists’ lifetime achievement in selling the style of music as a car of cultural understanding; entertaining and informing audiences; and provoking new generations, and the once-in-a-century ASCAP Centennial Award, which is introduced to American music icons in recognition of their incomparable accomplishments of their respective music genres and past. In 2016, the Library of Congress chosen “Piano Man” for preservation within the Nationwide Recording Registry for its “cultural, historic, and creative significance.”
Tickets for the March present can be accessible for buy by most of the people starting at 10:00AM (ET) on Friday, October 13 by way of www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets can even be accessible on the Madison Sq. Backyard field workplace on Saturday, October 14. The live performance, a part of the Montefiore Live performance Collection, is being promoted by MSG Leisure in affiliation with AEG Presents and Q104.3 as a media companion.
