Taylor & King Conquer The World

The first dates for the James Taylor / Carole King world tour emerged this week, showing the singer / songwriter dynamic duo playing Australia, Japan and Los Angeles.

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LA Stadium, New Orleans, La.

With a promise of “more dates and cities to be announced soon,” here’s what’s nailed down for the “Troubadour Reunion” tour, according to Taylor’s Web site.

The first set of released dates starts with Australia – March 27 at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena; March 31 at Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre; April 3 at Hunter’s Hope Arena and April 6 at Sydney’s Entertainment Centre.

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At Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheatre.

After a one-nighter in New Zealand at Auckland’s Vector Arena April 10, the tour heads to Japan and Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan April 14 and 16.

Then it’s on to Los Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl for a gig on May 14.

That’s the schedule so far, but like most tour announcements, there are cities to be selected and dates to be added. For more information, click here for James Taylor’s Web site and here for Carole King’s home on the ‘Net.