Santana Postpones Florida Tour Dates

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Santana's tour dates on Friday, August 24^th, and Saturday, August 25th at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL as well as their date on Sunday, August 26th at the Ask Gary Amphitheatre in Tampa, FL have been postponed.

Michael Vrionis, President of Universal Tone Management, says, "It is with great regret that the upcoming performances featuring Carlos Santana and the Santana Band have been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control. Universal Tone Management is working diligently to reschedule these performances. We would like to thank all of the fans in Florida for your patronage, and we look forward to bringing you the music of Carlos Santana in the very near future."

Santana's tour dates follow the May 15, 2012 release of Shape Shifter, their latest album—and the first for Carlos Santana's new label Starfaith Records.  The 13-song set is an instrumental tour de force long awaited by fans (one song features vocals by Santana's lead vocalists Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay). The album also features Chester Thompson on keyboards, Dennis Chambers on drums, Benny Rietveld on bass, Salvador Santana on keyboards, Raul Rekow on congas and Karl Perazzo on percussion.

Since Santana emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area music scene in the 1960s, the group has sold more than 100 million records, reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Santana has won 10 GRAMMYs, including a record-tying nine for a single project, 1999's Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Smooth").  With the 2010 release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time­, Santana joined the Rolling Stones as one of only two music acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album in each decade from the 1960s on.  Among other honors, Carlos Santana is #20 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"—"Santana's crystalline tone and clean arcing sustain make him the rare instrumentalist who can be identified in just one note."

Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase.

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