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Saadiq Shakes Up Winter
Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil may have forecast six more weeks of winter recently but Raphael Saadiq is doing his best to combat the cold with a string of soul-warming dates.
The month-long jaunt, which kicks off Feb. 28 at San Diego’s House of Blues, will hit clubs and theatres in major markets coast to coast before wrapping at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta March 28.
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Raphael Saadiq delivers sweet soul music during a Fall 2008 tour stop.
Stops include The Fillmore in San Francisco (March 3), Denver’s Bluebird Theater (March 10), Park West in Chicago (March 12), Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (March 16), Paradise Rock Club in Boston (March 19), Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza (March 21) and 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. (March 24).
Saadiq’s trek will follow this year’s Grammy Awards Feb. 8, for which the singer received three noms for his album The Way I See It – for best traditional R&B performance, best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals and best R&B album.