Tucson, Arizona, Music Hall Of Fame member Stefan George will come for a short tour end of August/beginning September 2010 to promote his latest album "CLOTH".
To get the whole impression of acoustic blues, slide guitar and a entertaining storytelling it`s a must go to one of his shows.
Hope to see you there.!!!

[August 16th, 2010]

Blue Rose veteran Rich Hopkins is back with a new record and for the first time in over four years even the name Luminarios is back on it.The Luminarios have been around as a trio, quartet, quintet or a casual session with musical friends since 1992; and it's always clearly a Rich Hopkins project, in contrary to the other projects of the desert rock godfather from Tucson, Arizona, like Sidewinders, Sand Rubies, Underbelly, Woodcocks etc., where he shares his lead roll. RICH HOPKINS & LUMINARIOS stand for unconditional guitar rock, true Tucson Rock'n Roll, Byrds-style Psychedelic Pop - electricity on its highest level and genuine power. El Otro Lado/The Other Side isn`t any different.

he new Luminarios album is moving in the same direction of the preceding 2006 record The Horse I Rode In On and classics like Dirt Town, El Paso und The Glorious Sounds Of, on the other hand it profits from Hopkins new lifestyle. It's generally known that he found the love of his life, Lisa Novak, who doesn't just care for his happiness and emotional wellbeing but adds herself as an accomplished musician competent and stunningly clear to the usually masculine characterized Hopkins desert cosmos. The joined CD Loveland (Blue Rose, 2008) already showed that and can be heard on El Otro Lado as well, since Novak took the solid place next to the well-tried rhythm guys Ken Andree/Bass und Bruce Halper/Drums (Sidewinders, Sand Rubies). She gets the cocredits as producer and besides two songs as songwriter as well (and we're not thinking of Linda McCartney!), she plays guitar and percussion, and with her dark nasal contralto voice a great addition to the up to now sophisticated Luminarios backing vocals, she even takes on one or the other lead part in fine-tuning with Rich. Any bet, he got influenced by her Americana/pop past with the very unique jingle-jangle twang sound that's noticeable throughout the record like a recurrent theme.
El Otro Lado/The Other Side is about the downside of the American Dream and therefore can definitely be reviewed as a socio-political statement by Rich Hopkins. It is not the first time that the "godfather" of desert rock concerns himself with the people from the Southside of Tucson who fell through many, if not all cracks of a meaningful life and are battling to keep a little piece of dignity. Unemployed, illegal immigrants, Indians torn from their roots, homeless, indebted former middleclass, "Mexicans in the ghetto" All these people are customers of the Casa Maria soup kitchen, one of the few social facilities with free meals for the needy, where meanwhile the number of visitors increased one of followed by beat down guitar boards, with powerful rhythm section, quaffable choir refrains and sharp, Calexico-atmosphere trumpet boosts from Javier Gamez. Besides there, this trumpet player refines with his concise way of playing the bilingual Cuba Rock 'Guajira' (with sections out of the historical speech from the controversial state leader Batista of the revolutionary pre-Castro era) and 'Better Days', the only semi acoustic ballad with additional arrangements of cello and piano. The second essential piece is 'Breathe In/Out', a 7-minute slow rocker with multiple, cut and layered, threatening electric guitars, a stoical Crazy Horse beat, glorified vocals and a refrain based on 'Like A Hurricane' - Acid Rock in the Arizona desert. In contrast does the melodic 60s style rock of the opener 'Love Is A Muse' as well as the Neil Young-style 'World On Fire' or the hyper-twangy folk rock of 'Good Intentions' and 'U R Not Alone' (both in the duet style from Loveland!) downright emerge as musical leisure time. The songwriting quality on El Otro Lado is on such an extraordinary high level and the music so versatile like probably on no other Luminarios record before. Therefore the remaining two tracks have to be mentioned as well since they're in no way inferior to the others - far from it! 'Lou Reed', basically the big Lisa Novak song, on which she can really shine with her brilliant voice and leaves the desire for a new solo record. Almost casually we experience here the two very best Rich Hopkins guitar soli, tight, edged and down to the point, feedback soaked! "Woke up this morning, it's time to get out of this town, see my luck's turned a little sour these days, I can turn it around..." the concluding 'Land Of Broken Dreams' compresses the lyrical and musical previous 40+ minutes in a thundering grande finale. Starting with the singing and controlled raucous guitars up to the very strong Rich Hopkins vocals, all the way down to the simmering force of the band, it all fits together like controlled by supernatural powers.

[April 29th, 2009]

Cracker's new album "Sunshine In The Land Of Milk And Honey" will be relaesed in May by Blue Rose Records.The band will be in Europe in October for shows to promote this new one.

[February 20th, 2009]

The The Band Of Heathens tour went to be a very successful one. Their first tour over here, except for the 4 dates in December, had a couple sold out shows, concerts with almost 3 hours of music and all over happy people. This band climed a new dimension in their live shows and you shouldn`t miss them. Thanks to Ed, Gordy, Colin, Seth and John and hopefully the next tour will come sometimes soon. THANKS, folks!!!

[February 20th, 2009]

Todd Thibaud and his longfellows Thomas Juliano and Sean Staples will come on tour end of March and will perform at WDR ROCKPALAST CROSSROADS at the Hormonie, BONN. (--> see tourdates)

[February 20th, 2009]

Solo artist Stefan George will play a couple solo acoustic shows in March. If you like to watch one of the best bluesguitarists don`t miss his performances. (--> see tourdates)

[February 20th, 2009]

Also Rich Hopkins with Lisa Novak will be in Europe again to support their New album “Loveland”. (--> see tourdates)

[November 21st, 2008]

Todd Thibaud announced a full band tour for March/April 2009 supporting his new album which is coming on Blue Rose records soon.

[November 21st, 2008]

Rich Hopkins + Luminarios and Lisa Novak will be on tour in March/April 2009 supporting the new Blue Rose Records album Loveland. Tourdates will follow soon ...

[November 21st, 2008]

Cracker is recording their new studio album which will be released mid 2009. Tourdates will follow soon ...

[June 26th, 2008]

Go Ahead will be on tour with Tony Joe White in September as well as Cracker in October and Greyhond Soul in November.

[June 26th, 2008]

Cracker "Live in Berlin CD" out now. Cracker recorded a show in Berlin in december of 2006. This is a special show with Nate Brown on drums and Kenny Margolis on Keyboards.

[February 26th, 2008]

Unfortunately the Greyhound Soul Tour has to be postponed again from May to sometimes later. It's very sad even this kind of music is intense, raw, melancholic, introverted, desperate and dark. Hope to get a chance to set up a tour later.

[January 30th, 2008]

Greyhound Soul will tour Europe May 6th to May 25th. Tourdates will follow soon.
The band - featuring the illustrious, charismatic, sometimes self-willing frontman Joe Pena - stripped down on most of the new songs - in speed, in mood and in electricity. Tonight And Every Night didn't become an acoustic slow motion project at all but a very strong work, inviting the listener less to rock and air guitar playing but more to focus on the dark lyrics about soul pain, transitory love and unfulfilled yearning, deep melancholic moods in minor keys, introverted grumpy singing and an amazingly cautious, fine instrumentation to sensitive chamber arrangements with a violin/chello duo on a few tracks. Indeed - Greyhound Soul did a tremendous change and this album seems to be the most desperate, darkest, most depressive Blue Rose release of all times!

[January 30th, 2008]

Go Ahead will be on tour with Jason Isbell & 400 Unit from March 28th to April 30th.

[January 30th, 2008]

Stefan George, one of the best guitar players ever will be on tour Feb. 29th to March 9th. Tourdates follow soon.

[September 18th, 2007]

The Sand Rubies tour is scheduled now (see tourdates).
The line up will be Dave Slutes, Rich Hopkins, Ken Andree and on drums, Winston Watson, member of Bob Dylans tourband for years and played with Chuck Prophet, Greyhound Soul and many others.

[May 20th, 2007]

Go Ahead will be on the road with Cracker for a short tour in Germany, Switzerland and Austria end of May/June.

[May 20th, 2007]

Go Ahead will be on the road in October with the Rainravens.

[May 20th, 2007]

November is time to tour with Jackie Leven duo again.

[May 20th, 2007]

Go Ahead Tours proudly announce the Sand Rubies Tour in December 2007. Since the best attended tour back in 1999 for the record label Blue Rose the band will be back in Europe for their second tour. This is a very rare opportunity to see the godfathers of desert rock. And they will have a brand new cd out (Blue Rose Records). If you like great songs and guitars don`t miss to watch them!!!

[January 19thth, 2007]

Go Ahead will be on the road with Stefan George in April. Stefan is one of the most impressive musicians I know. He`s been in the Luminarios of Rich Hopkins as well as touring with his own band The Conrads. In April he`ll be playing his amazing solo acoustic shows.

[January 19th, 2007]

A good friend will support his last record "Oh What A Blow That Phantom Dealt Me" – Jackie Leven feat. Michael Cosgrove in the second half of April (see tourdates). You can`t miss his songs AND his stories.

[November 01st, 2006]

GoAhead Tours will be on tour with Cracker between November 9th and 19th.

[November 01st, 2006]

GoAhead Tours is proud to work with Patricia Vonne (Austin, TX). In December she's coming for a couple shows to Germany. Don't miss her amazing live perfornance!!!!

[July 15th, 2006]

Unfortunately the Sand Rubies tour has to be postponed to 2007 due to work obligations of band members. But Rich Hopkins will come with his Luminarios from February 01 to March 04 2007 for a European tour. With a new record which will be released in late summer 2006 on Blue Rose Records.

[May 3rd, 2006]

And finally Go Ahead Tours is proud to announce to be the new booking agent for Rich Hopkins!!!! Yes, Rich will come with his “other” band - The Sand Rubies - between October 13th and October 29th to Europe to promote his new Sand Rubies studio album which comes out on Blue Rose Records in August. They will perform October 17th for the WDR tv-show Crossroads at the Harmonie in Bonn. Stay tuned for details.

[April 13th, 2006]

Go Ahead Tours will be on the road with The Silos between April 15th and 29th to promote the new Silos album “Come on like the fast lane”. (see tourdates)

[April 13th, 2006]

In May Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 will hit the European roads again, playing some festivals - Orange Blossom at Glitterhouse and some others. (see tourdates)

[April 13th, 2006]

For the fall Go Ahead Tours will book shows between September 29th and October 4th, 2006 for Patty Hurst Shifter from Raleigh/North Carolina.

[July 1st,, 2005]

The Greyhound Soul tour in September has to be postponed until later next year due to work obligations of some band members. Sorry for that – especially to all promoters who had already booked shows.
Please stay tuned for further details. Thanks!!!!

[April 23rd, 2005]

Go Ahead will be on tour with Rich Hopkins & Luminarios from May 12th until June 06th..

[April 23rd,, 2005]

After the fantastic show for their 10th anniversary in Tucson's Club Congress GREYHOUND SOUL will be back in Europe in fall. The Tour is announced between September 22nd and October 09th!!!! The band will finish their new album by June. It`s more rock`n roll than the band did ever before. The Live DVD from Greyhound Soul's Rockpalast show will be also available on tour. (Album + DVD on Music Network, Bremen).

[April 23rd,, 2005]

Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 announces their EUROPEAN tour between October 21- December 18. The new album will be released by Blue Rose Records in September.

[January 20, 2005]

After our last tour in December 2004 Todd Thibaud and his band are coming back for open air shows between June 9th and June 20th. His band with Jabe Beyer, Sean Staples, David Westner and Steve Mayone played songs of his new record "Northern Skies" as well as older ones in versions never heard before, intense, melodic and powerful- they kicked asses. (see tour dates)

[January 20, 2005]

Go Ahead Tours will do the tourmanagement during the upcoming tour of The Silos.

[January 20, 2005]

Burrell will rock Germany between April 07 - April 17.

[January 20, 2005]

Go Ahead Tours will do the tourmanagement during the upcoming tour of Rich Hopkins & Luminarios in May. Rich will play the Orange Blossom festival in Glitterhouse' garden on May 14th.

[November 2, 2004]

Don't miss Gary Hudson on TV at WDR Crossroads.
The highlights of the CROSSROADS show at the Bonn Harmonie (05.10.- 08.10.2004) will be broadcasted on Monday, Nov. 29th 2004 - 1.00 - 3.00 AM (WDR), and Monday, Dec. 6th 2004 - 1.15 - 3.30 AM (WDR). The entire concert will be shown in February 2005.

[June 30, 2004]

Todd Thibaud will come on tour with us in December 2004.

[June 30, 2004]

The Ghosthouse tour, that was scheduled for October 2004, was unfortunally cancelled.

[June 8, 2004]

Cary Hudson (ex Blue Montain) will tour Germany between September 27 and October 10 with his power rock trio to promote his new record "COOL BREEZE" (Glitterhouse).

[May 18, 2004]

Sam Lapides' Ghosthouse will come on tour in October (04-17) to promote their new record 'DEVOTION' on Blue Rose Records.

[March 15, 2004]

Last summers Greyhound Soul show at the Harmony in Bonn will be broadcasted again on April 12th at 2.15 a.m. on WDR TV. You can find a video stream ("Midnight Radio") and an audio stream of this show here -->

[March 11, 2004]

The Reto Burrell tour between April 15 and April 25 was unfortunally cancelled.

[January 4, 2004]

Reto Burrell will be touring to promote his hew acoustic album "Roses Fade Blue" which will be released on Blue Rose Records on February 26th. Together with well known Charlie Zimmerman Reto will perform acoustic shows between April 15 and April 25.
Tourdates will follow soon.

[December 12, 2003]

The Greyhound Soul performance during their CROSSROADS show will be broadcasted on January 31 at 1.15 p.m. on 3 sat TV. You can find a video stream ("Midnight Radio") and an audio stream of this show here -->

[December 12, 2003]

Greyhound Soul's label MUSIC NETWORK is preparing a DVD with their full ROCKPALAST show and other items coming out in spring 2004!!!!

[December 12, 2003]

Joe Peña, singer and mastermind of Greyhound Soul will be in Germany as support for the CASH MONIES European tour between March 17 and April 03.

[December 12, 2003]

Joe will also play a couple of solo shows between April 09 and April 25. Stay tuned for tourdates!!

[December 12, 2003]

GO Ahead Tours is onboard again when RICH HOPKINS & Luminarios are hitting the road again between January 16 and February 20 all over Europe. It's another fun time I'll spend with Rich and his compadres on the road to support his new album "KAH JU TAH".
(see also www.bluerose-records.com)


See TOURDATES for the GO AHEAD Tours!!! -->