Mar 06 2016
Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters

Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters

Presented by St. Johns County Cultural Events Division at St. Augustine Amphitheatre

With over 40 years of success as a solo singer/songwriter, former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant continues to be a force in modern music. On his most recent album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar, Plant—whom Rolling Stone readers had already voted as the top rock vocalist of all time in a 2011 poll—essays what are among the finest vocal performances of his solo career, balancing power and pathos—intimate and emotional at times (the keyboard-and-voice ballad “A Stolen Kiss,” recorded starkly in a chapel), atmospheric and incantatory at others (the dramatically unfolding “Embrace Another Fall,” a trip across the Welsh border).

As he contemplated the writing process, Plant had been instinctively drawn back to the impressively eclectic group of musicians he had previously toured and recorded with as Strange Sensation, early in the last decade. With a few members of that combo, he’d cut 2002’s Dreamland, an album of covers dating mostly from the late ’60s psychedelic folk and rock era, and, with more of these live band members, 2005’s acclaimed Mighty Rearranger. Plant explains, “As I was turning towards the east and back across the Atlantic, I was starting to make moves to reunite with my friends from Strange Sensation and see what we could do. We played together for about 15 months and those were such exciting concerts. We changed the name to The Sensational Space Shifters and brought in the amazing Juldeh Camara from West Africa, from the Gambia, who plays the ritti a one-string fiddle, and the kologo, which is the African origin of the guitar. And Dave Smith joined us on drums. So this amazing hybrid developed. This is where it all began.” 

Admission Info

$79.50 – General Admission Standing Pit $79.50 – Level 100
$64.50 – Level 200
$64.50 – Level 300
$49.50 – Obstructed View

Dates & Times

2016/03/06 - 2016/03/06

Additional time info:

Doors 5:30pm

Location Info

St. Augustine Amphitheatre

1340 SR-A1A S, St. Augustine, FL 32080