BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SoDel X-WR-CALNAME:FOREIGNER BEGIN:VEVENT UID:272352025-08-04 DTSTART:20250804T230000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20250804T040000Z LOCATION:31806 Lake View Drive\nSelbyville DE 19975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=31806 Lake View Drive\nSelb yville DE 19975;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=31806 Lake View Drive:geo:38.466 017,-75.112054 GEO:38.466017;-75.112054 SUMMARY:FOREIGNER CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hits\, FOREIGNER is \nuniversally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world\nwi th a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out\ntours a nd album sales\, now exceeding 80 million. Responsible for some\nof rock a nd roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box\nHero\,” “Cold As Ice\,” “Hot Blooded\,” “Waiting For A Girl\nLike You\,” “F eels Like The First Time\,” “Urgent\,” “Head\nGames\,” “Say Yo u Will\,” “Dirty White Boy\,” “Long\, Long Way\nFrom Home” and t he worldwide #1 hit\, “I Want To Know What Love\nIs\,” FOREIGNER still rocks the charts almost 50 years into the game\nwith massive airplay and continued Billboard album chart success.\nAudio and video streams of FOREI GNER’s hits exceed 15 million per\nweek. With more Top 10 songs than Jou rney and as many as Fleetwood\nMac\, FOREIGNER also features strongly in e very category in\nBillboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing. At tim es\, the\nband’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppeli n\,\nAC/DC\, the Rolling Stones\, the Who\, Def Leppard\, Van Halen\, Aero smith\nand most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan).\n FOREIGNER‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated in Business\nInsider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of\nAll Time. F ounded in 1976\, FOREIGNER‘s debut album produced the hits\n“Feels Lik e The First Time\,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long\, Long\nWay From Home. ” The album Double Vision followed\, as did a string of\nhits including “Urgent\,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A\nGirl Like You.” Those songs helped give FOREIGNER‘s next album\, 4\,\nits impressive ru n at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of\n80’s sound\, FOREIGNER ‘s fifth album\, Agent Provocateur\, gave the\nworld the incredible #1 g lobal hit\,” I Want To Know What Love Is.”\nThis musical milestone fol lowed the record-breaking song “Waiting\nFor A Girl Like You.” FOREIGN ER‘s founder is Songwriters Hall of\nFame member Mick Jones. A visionary maestro whose stylistic\nsongwriting\, indelible guitar hooks and multi-l ayered talents continue\nto escalate FOREIGNER‘s influence and guide the band to new\nhorizons. Jones reformed the band after a 2002 hiatus and se lected\nlead singer Kelly Hansen to help write an inspired new chapter in the\nhistory of FOREIGNER. One of rock’s greatest showmen\, Hansen is\na mong the most respected\, consummate professionals in rock and roll.\nWith a 40-year career that spans almost every area of music\, from the\nrole o f lead vocalist to producing and engineering\, Hansen has led\nFOREIGNER i nto the digital age while inspiring a whole new generation\nof fans. FOREI GNER’s lineup also includes noted Dokken bassist Jeff\nPilson\, Michael Bluestein on keyboards\, guitarist Bruce Watson\, Chris\nFrazier on drums and guitarist Luis Carlos Maldonado. An unprecedented\nnew level of energy led the group to a re-emergence of astounding\nmusic that speaks to FOREI GNER‘s enduring popularity. With renewed\nvitality and direction\, FOREI GNER hit the Billboard charts again with\nthe 2005 release of their live G reatest Hits album\, Extended Versions.\nCan’t Slow Down followed in 200 9 and entered the Billboard chart in\nthe Top 30\, driven by two Top 20 ra dio singles\, “In Pieces” and\n“When It Comes To Love.” To follow was the release of the band’s\nthree-disc set\, Feels Like The First Tim e\, which included an acoustic\nCD with an intimate and unique re-interpre tation of many FOREIGNER\nclassics\, studio re-records by the new lineup a nd a live performance\nDVD showcasing the group’s exceptional live energ y. FOREIGNER’s\nmusic experienced another surge in popularity in recent years thanks\nto usage in primetime television\, major motion pictures\, v ideo games\,\nadvertising\, and digital content. Films such as Rock of Age s\, Bad\nMoms\, Angry Birds\, Magic Mike\, Pitch Perfect\, Good Boys and T he\nEternals\, and television shows Orange Is The New Black\, Stranger\nTh ings\, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, The Tonight Show Starring\nJim my Fallon and Tacoma FD have all strongly featured Foreigner’s\nsongs. A dvertisers including Toyota\, Google\, Molson\, and Ford have\nturned to F OREIGNER’s music to engage their fans. In May 2014\,\nAtlantic Records C hairman Craig Kallman presented the band with RIAA\ngold and platinum digi tal awards for six FOREIGNER songs. These awards\nsignify 500\,000 and 1\, 000\,000 downloads of FOREIGNER hits. That is\nmore individual awards than any other heritage rock band\, and an\nillustration of FOREIGNER’s reso nance in the digital era. In recent\nyears\, FOREIGNER has headlined sever al Live Nation tours\, rocking\nacross the country and the world with cont emporaries and friends. In\n2014\, FOREIGNER headlined The Soundtrack of S ummer US amphitheater\ntour with Styx and Don Felder. A hits compilation a lbum of the same\nname was released to coincide with the tour and immediat ely hit the\nBillboard Top 200 chart. In 2015\, FOREIGNER joined Kid Rock on his\n“Cheap Date: First Kiss Tour.” In October 2016\, FOREIGNER hit a\nmajor milestone when the band performed for the very first time at New \nYork’s iconic Carnegie Hall with a sold-out acoustic show. The\nconcer t highlighted the band’s ongoing relationship with the GRAMMY\nMuseum’ s initiative to promote music education in our nation’s\nschools. It inc luded an a cappella contest among New York high schools\nwho competed for a $5\,000 prize donated by the band. The year also\nbrought the release of FOREIGNER‘s first ever live acoustic album In\nConcert: Unplugged\, rec orded at a once-in-a-lifetime private concert\nhosted by Edsel B. Ford II at the Ford Motor Company Conference &\nEvent Center in Detroit\, MI. The band’s royalties were donated to\nJDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Found ation) and the album is\navailable exclusively via Amazon. The year 2017 m arked the celebration\nof FOREIGNER‘s 40th anniversary. The Warner Music Group released a\ndouble CD set “40\,” which includes 40 songs record ed between 1977\nand 2017. The album spent several weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart\nand it features two tracks recorded especially for this rel ease\,\n“Give My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To\nLive Without You.” The album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top\ n200 chart. The US anniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the\nU nited States where the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason\nBonham ’s Led Zeppelin Experience. In April 2018\, FOREIGNER topped\nthe Billbo ard Classic Album Charts for the first time with FOREIGNER\nWITH THE 21ST CENTURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS\, a live recording of\nFOREIGNER’s f irst-ever orchestral shows in Lucerne\, Switzerland. The\nband went on to headline orchestral shows in the US\, Europe\, Australia\nand New Zealand throughout the year including sold-out appearances at\nLondon’s Royal Al bert Hall and the iconic Sydney Opera House. In the\nsummer of 2018\, FORE IGNER starred in a thirty city Live Nation US\nsummer tour with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening\nin support. The excitement con tinued in 2019 with the premiere of Juke\nBox Hero\, the Musical in Canada . Following a series of sold-out\nworkshops in Alberta and Calgary\, the m usical premiered in Toronto in\nFebruary and a Broadway run is on the hori zon. The November 2019\nrelease of Double Vision: Then & Now is a DVD/CD p ackage that\ncelebrates the 40th anniversary of the iconic album. It featu res a\nstunning reunion concert that brings together the current and origi nal\nband members playing all the hits at the top of their game. 2020\nkic ked off with a three-day run at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center\nwith the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in mid-January. Another\nhighlight was a sol d-out January/February residency at The Venetian\,\nLas Vegas. The Covid-1 9 nightmare forced the band to postpone almost a\nhundred shows all over t he world including a sold-out show with\nWhitesnake at the 18\,000 seat Lo ndon 02 Arena. The Covid impact on the\nlive concert business continued th rough much of 2021\, although by\ncareful observation of health protocols\ , Foreigner was able to execute\na limited\, but highly successful touring schedule breaking box office\nrecords in many markets. Following spectacu lar shows at LA’s Greek\nTheater and the Santa Barbara Bowl\, the band e mbarked on a run of\ntheater and major casino dates and other special even ts. These\nincluded appearances at Detroit’s Fox Theatre and the Hard Ro ck Live\nat Etess Arena in Atlantic City. Another highlight was an appeara nce\nat the Annual Gala of the American Turkish Society\, which celebrated \nthe life of Mick Jones’ and Foreigner’s guiding light at Atlantic\nR ecords\, Ahmet Ertegun. The year culminated with FOREIGNER’s\nappearance at the spectacular Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. 2022\ncommenced with a three-week residency at the Venetian Resort in Las\nVegas and the resch eduled co-headline UK tour with Whitesnake\, and\nsolo headline shows acro ss Europe. The year continued with an exciting\nschedule of headline appea rances that included the New York State\nFair\, where FOREIGNER’s 38\,88 8 plus audience broke the Classic Rock\nattendance record\, and a run of s old-out amphitheater shows with Kid\nRock. In the fall\, FOREIGNER returne d to international touring with\nsold out shows in France\, Holland\, Isra el\, and South Africa. In 2023\,\nthe band continued touring throughout th e United States with a 32-date\nLive Nation amphitheater tour with special guest Loverboy. That year\nalso saw FOREIGNER’s third residency at the Venetian\, Las Vegas and\nmajor TV appearances on GMA and Fox & Friends. I n the spring of 2024\,\nFOREIGNER executed a sold-out tour of Canada and a nother Live Nation\nheadline tour of amphitheaters with our partners STYX with attendances\nof 14\,000 to 15\,000 in some markets\, together with tw o headline\nresidencies at the Las Vegas Venetian in the spring and fall. The\nbiggest news of the year was FOREIGNER’s nomination to the Rock &\n Roll Hall of Fame followed by an appearance at the induction ceremony\nin Cleveland which is slated for a national TV debut on October 19.\nThe band also announced a Hall of Fame celebration tour which will\nbegin with the fall Las Vegas residency\, and which will feature\noriginal band members in select markets. That tour will continue\nthrough 2025. The band release d TURNING BACK THE TIME in the fall.\nThis is part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebration and features\nFOREIGNER’s hits through the years wi th a newly released song\nwritten by Mick Jones and Lou Gramm and original ly recorded in 1996.\nThe single\, “Turning Back The Time\,” has alrea dy had great\ncritical acclaim and significant airplay. More about FOREIGN ER —\nincluding individual band member bios\, tour dates\, merchandise\, and\nmore — can be found on the band’s official website\,\nwww.foreig neronline.com. Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hi ts\, FOREIGNER is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel so ld-out tours and album sales\, now exceeding 80 million. Responsible for s ome of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero\ ,” “Cold As Ice\,” “Hot Blooded\,” “Waiting For A Girl Like Yo u\,” “Feels Like The First Time\,” “Urgent\,” “Head Games\,” “Say You Will\,” “Dirty White Boy\,” “Long\, Long Way From Home ” and the worldwide #1 hit\, “I Want To Know What Love Is\,” FOREIGN ER still rocks the charts almost 50 years into the game with massive airpl ay and continued Billboard album chart success. Audio and video streams of FOREIGNER’s hits exceed 15 million per week. With more Top 10 songs tha n Journey and as many as Fleetwood Mac\, FOREIGNER also features strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing. At times\, the band’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppe lin\, AC/DC\, the Rolling Stones\, the Who\, Def Leppard\, Van Halen\, Aer osmith and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan). F OREIGNER‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated in Business Insider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of All Time. Foun ded in 1976\, FOREIGNER‘s debut album produced the hits “Feels Like Th e First Time\,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long\, Long Way From Home.” T he album Double Vision followed\, as did a string of hits including “Urg ent\,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” Those songs helped give FOREIGNER‘s next album\, 4\, its impressive run at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of 80’s sound\, FOREIGNER‘s fift h album\, Agent Provocateur\, gave the world the incredible #1 global hit\ ,” I Want To Know What Love Is.” This musical milestone followed the r ecord-breaking song “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” FOREIGNER‘s found er is Songwriters Hall of Fame member Mick Jones. A visionary maestro whos e stylistic songwriting\, indelible guitar hooks and multi-layered talents continue to escalate FOREIGNER‘s influence and guide the band to new ho rizons. Jones reformed the band after a 2002 hiatus and selected lead sing er Kelly Hansen to help write an inspired new chapter in the history of FO REIGNER. One of rock’s greatest showmen\, Hansen is among the most respe cted\, consummate professionals in rock and roll. With a 40-year career th at spans almost every area of music\, from the role of lead vocalist to pr oducing and engineering\, Hansen has led FOREIGNER into the digital age wh ile inspiring a whole new generation of fans. FOREIGNER’s lineup also in cludes noted Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson\, Michael Bluestein on keyboards\, guitarist Bruce Watson\, Chris Frazier on drums and guitarist Luis Carlos Maldonado. An unprecedented new level of energy led the group to a re-eme rgence of astounding music that speaks to FOREIGNER‘s enduring popularit y. With renewed vitality and direction\, FOREIGNER hit the Billboard chart s again with the 2005 release of their live Greatest Hits album\, Extended Versions. Can’t Slow Down followed in 2009 and entered the Billboard ch art in the Top 30\, driven by two Top 20 radio singles\, “In Pieces” a nd “When It Comes To Love.” To follow was the release of the band’s three-disc set\, Feels Like The First Time\, which included an acoustic CD with an intimate and unique re-interpretation of many FOREIGNER classics\ , studio re-records by the new lineup and a live performance DVD showcasin g the group’s exceptional live energy. FOREIGNER’s music experienced a nother surge in popularity in recent years thanks to usage in primetime te levision\, major motion pictures\, video games\, advertising\, and digital content. Films such as Rock of Ages\, Bad Moms\, Angry Birds\, Magic Mike \, Pitch Perfect\, Good Boys and The Eternals\, and television shows Orang e Is The New Black\, Stranger Things\, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\ , The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Tacoma FD have all strongly f eatured Foreigner’s songs. Advertisers including Toyota\, Google\, Molso n\, and Ford have turned to FOREIGNER’s music to engage their fans. In M ay 2014\, Atlantic Records Chairman Craig Kallman presented the band with RIAA gold and platinum digital awards for six FOREIGNER songs. These award s signify 500\,000 and 1\,000\,000 downloads of FOREIGNER hits. That is mo re individual awards than any other heritage rock band\, and an illustrati on of FOREIGNER’s resonance in the digital era. In recent years\, FOREIG NER has headlined several Live Nation tours\, rocking across the country a nd the world with contemporaries and friends. In 2014\, FOREIGNER headline d The Soundtrack of Summer US amphitheater tour with Styx and Don Felder. A hits compilation album of the same name was released to coincide with th e tour and immediately hit the Billboard Top 200 chart. In 2015\, FOREIGNE R joined Kid Rock on his “Cheap Date: First Kiss Tour.” In October 201 6\, FOREIGNER hit a major milestone when the band performed for the very f irst time at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall with a sold-out acoustic sh ow. The concert highlighted the band’s ongoing relationship with the GRA MMY Museum’s initiative to promote music education in our nation’s sch ools. It included an a cappella contest among New York high schools who co mpeted for a $5\,000 prize donated by the band. The year also brought the release of FOREIGNER‘s first ever live acoustic album In Concert: Unplug ged\, recorded at a once-in-a-lifetime private concert hosted by Edsel B. Ford II at the Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center in Detroit\, M I. The band’s royalties were donated to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) and the album is available exclusively via Amazon. The year 2 017 marked the celebration of FOREIGNER‘s 40th anniversary. The Warner M usic Group released a double CD set “40\,” which includes 40 songs rec orded between 1977 and 2017. The album spent several weeks on the Billboar d Top 200 chart and it features two tracks recorded especially for this re lease\, “Give My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Live Without You.” The album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top 2 00 chart. The US anniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the Unit ed States where the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. In April 2018\, FOREIGNER topped the Billboard C lassic Album Charts for the first time with FOREIGNER WITH THE 21ST CENTUR Y SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS\, a live recording of FOREIGNER’s first-ev er orchestral shows in Lucerne\, Switzerland. The band went on to headline orchestral shows in the US\, Europe\, Australia and New Zealand throughou t the year including sold-out appearances at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the iconic Sydney Opera House. In the summer of 2018\, FOREIGNER starr ed in a thirty city Live Nation US summer tour with Whitesnake and Jason B onham’s Led Zeppelin Evening in support. The excitement continued in 201 9 with the premiere of Juke Box Hero\, the Musical in Canada. Following a series of sold-out workshops in Alberta and Calgary\, the musical premiere d in Toronto in February and a Broadway run is on the horizon. The Novembe r 2019 release of Double Vision: Then & Now is a DVD/CD package that celeb rates the 40th anniversary of the iconic album. It features a stunning reu nion concert that brings together the current and original band members pl aying all the hits at the top of their game. 2020 kicked off with a three- day run at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center with the Nashville Symphony Or chestra in mid-January. Another highlight was a sold-out January/February residency at The Venetian\, Las Vegas. The Covid-19 nightmare forced the b and to postpone almost a hundred shows all over the world including a sold -out show with Whitesnake at the 18\,000 seat London 02 Arena. The Covid i mpact on the live concert business continued through much of 2021\, althou gh by careful observation of health protocols\, Foreigner was able to exec ute a limited\, but highly successful touring schedule breaking box office records in many markets. Following spectacular shows at LA’s Greek Thea ter and the Santa Barbara Bowl\, the band embarked on a run of theater and major casino dates and other special events. These included appearances a t Detroit’s Fox Theatre and the Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlanti c City. Another highlight was an appearance at the Annual Gala of the Amer ican Turkish Society\, which celebrated the life of Mick Jones’ and Fore igner’s guiding light at Atlantic Records\, Ahmet Ertegun. The year culm inated with FOREIGNER’s appearance at the spectacular Macy’s Thanksgiv ing Day Parade. 2022 commenced with a three-week residency at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas and the rescheduled co-headline UK tour with Whitesna ke\, and solo headline shows across Europe. The year continued with an exc iting schedule of headline appearances that included the New York State Fa ir\, where FOREIGNER’s 38\,888 plus audience broke the Classic Rock atte ndance record\, and a run of sold-out amphitheater shows with Kid Rock. In the fall\, FOREIGNER returned to international touring with sold out show s in France\, Holland\, Israel\, and South Africa. In 2023\, the band cont inued touring throughout the United States with a 32-date Live Nation amph itheater tour with special guest Loverboy. That year also saw FOREIGNER’ s third residency at the Venetian\, Las Vegas and major TV appearances on GMA and Fox & Friends. In the spring of 2024\, FOREIGNER executed a sold-o ut tour of Canada and another Live Nation headline tour of amphitheaters w ith our partners STYX with attendances of 14\,000 to 15\,000 in some marke ts\, together with two headline residencies at the Las Vegas Venetian in t he spring and fall. The biggest news of the year was FOREIGNER’s nominat ion to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame followed by an appearance at the induc tion ceremony in Cleveland which is slated for a national TV debut on Octo ber 19. The band also announced a Hall of Fame celebration tour which will begin with the fall Las Vegas residency\, and which will feature original band members in select markets. That tour will continue through 2025. The band released TURNING BACK THE TIME in the fall. This is part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebration and features FOREIGNER’s hits through t he years with a newly released song written by Mick Jones and Lou Gramm an d originally recorded in 1996. The single\, “Turning Back The Time\,” has already had great critical acclaim and significant airplay. More about FOREIGNER — including individual band member bios\, tour dates\, mercha ndise\, and more — can be found on the band’s official website\, www.f oreigneronline.com. Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. DTSTAMP:20261028T144838Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR