David Gilmour Joined On-Stage by Surprise Guests, David Crosby & Graham Nash, During Sold-Out Concert at Radio City Music Hall

David Gilmour Joined On-Stage by Surprise Guests, David Crosby & Graham Nash, During Sold-Out Concert at Radio City Music Hall

NEW YORK, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gilmour fans were surprised and delighted this evening by an unannounced appearance by David Crosby and Graham Nash during the first of two concerts launching Gilmour's eagerly-awaited On An Island North American Tour at New York's Radio City Music Hall (full itinerary follows).

Joining Gilmour and his band on-stage, Crosby and Nash added their trademark vocal harmonies to a live version of the title track from Gilmour's best-selling On An Island album. Crosby and Nash recorded the title track for the album, released on March 7, at Gilmour's recording studio housed in a boat on London's River Thames.

The David Gilmour touring ensemble includes guitarist Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music and co-producer of On An Island); keyboardist Richard Wright (Pink Floyd); bassist Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, Roxy Music); keyboardist Jon Carin (Pink Floyd); and drummer/percussionist Steve DiStanislao (Crosby & Nash).

Marc Brickman, who has worked with Gilmour on many Pink Floyd tours, has designed the lighting for the intimate venues chosen for this tour.

David Gilmour North American Tour Dates:

April 4 - New York - Radio City Music Hall
April 5 - New York - Radio City Music Hall
April 9 - Toronto - Massey Hall
April 10 - Toronto - Massey Hall
April 12 - Chicago - Paramount Theatre
April 13 - Chicago - Paramount Theatre
April 16 - San Francisco - Oakland Paramount
April 17 - San Francisco - Oakland Paramount
April 19 - Los Angeles - Kodak
April 20 - Los Angeles - Gibson Theatre

Released on March 7, David Gilmour's long-awaited third solo album, On An Island, the first CarbonNeutral(R) CD to be released by Columbia Records, debuted at #6 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart giving the artist his first American Top 10 honors outside his work with Pink Floyd.

On An Island -- the first David Gilmour solo album since 1984's About Face and the artist's first studio recordings since Pink Floyd's 1994 multi- platinum The Division Bell -- hit the #1 spot on the UK charts.

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Source: Columbia Records

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