1978 Tour Dates
These dates came from MF’s personal gig calendar, newsletters, and were later confirmed by Gordon Johnson.
Promo Photo MF with Sylvester Stallone MF’s 50th Birthday
January
1/18 MF flies to NY
1/20 Band flies to NY
1/21 – 23 Rehearsals
1/24 Cedar Grove, NJ The Meadowbrook (Tour begins)
(PBS – Big Band Bash)
MF played two 45-minute sets including the following tunes which were broadcast:
Give It One
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
Rocky https://youtu.be/SJ38DnZXkUA
Maria https://youtu.be/4zwHkiqxT0w
Blue Birdland
1/25 Off in NYC
1/26 Hopewell Junction, NY John Jay High School
1/27 Norwood, MA Norwood High School
1/28 Falmouth, MA The Lawrence School
1/29 Philadelphia, PA Academy of Music
1/30 Newark DE University of Delaware
1/31 Off in NYC
February
2/1 Band off in NYC, MF records
2/2 Bridgeport, CT Klein Memorial Auditorium Ticket
2/3 NY, NY Avery Fisher Hall
2/4 Rochester, NY Rochester Institute of Technology
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Personnel introductions
Primal Scream
Birdland
Over the Rainbow
Rocky
2/5 Akron, OH University of Akron (snowed out? Postponed to 10/29)
2/6 Marion, OH Palace Theatre
2/7 Chicago, IL Park West
2/8 West Aurora, IL West High School
2/9 Minneapolis, MN Metro Sports Arena Review
2/10 Sioux City, IA Morningside College
2/11 Lincoln, NE Nebraska Wesleyan University
2/12 Wichita, KS Century II Concert Hall
2/13 Off in Kansas City
2/14 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
2/15 Belleville, IL Scottish Rite
2/16 Oxford, MS University of Mississippi, Fulton Chapel
2/17 New Orleans, LA Hyatt Regency
2/18 New Orleans, LA Hyatt Regency
2/19 Sulphur, LA Sulphur High School
2/20 Houston, TX Houston Music Hall
2/21 College Station , TX Texas A&M University
Also MF phone interviews with
Cynthia Raymond, NY Daily NewsStan Grant, WYNZ Radio, Miami
2/22 Denton, TX North Texas State University TICKET
2/23 Austin, TX Austin Municipal Auditorium
MF also appears on KTBC-TC, Austin, ‘Cactus Pryor Show’
(Would love to see this if it exists!
2/24 Kinsgville, TX Texas A & I University
MF also appears on KEBT News
2/25 Off, travel to Pensacola, FL
2/26 Pensacola, FL Sanger Auditorium
2/27 Niceville, FL Okaloosa Walton Junior College
2/28 Gainesville, FL Great Northern Music Hall
March
3/1 Coral Gables, FL University of Miami
3/2 Sarasota, FL Van Wentzel Performing Arts Center
3/3 Orlando, FL DisneyWorld
Also MF interviews with
Tim Norton, West Virginia Pilot
Christa Johnson, Phoenix Daily Sun
Jack Williams, San Diego Evening Tribune
3/4 Miami, FL Gusman Hall
3/5 Ft. Myers, FL Edison College
3/6 Tampa, FL Tampa Theatre
3/7 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach High School
3/8 West Palm Beach, FL West Palm Beach Auditorium (Tour ends)
3/9 MF flies to LA
3/9 – 4/9 Vacation & Business meetings
April
4/10 Rehearsals in Dallas
4/11 – 13 Off?
4/14 Arlington, TX Musicville Theatre (Tour begins)
4/15 Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University w/ Dexter Gordon
4/16 Evansville, IN Memorial High School
4/17 Cincinnati, OH Maggie’s Opera House
4/18 Cincinnati, OH Maggie’s Opera House
4/19 Off
4/20 Eldon, IA Cardinal High School
4/21 Ames, IA C.Y. Stevens Auditorium
4/22 Off
4/23 Elkhart, IN Concord Performing Arts Center (4pm & 7pm shows)
7pm:
Blue Birdland
Chameleon
Carnival
Stella By Starlight
Rocky
Pagliacci
New Car Blues
4/24 Rolling Meadows, IL Rolling Meadows High School
4/25 Oshkosh, WI
4/26 DuBuque, IA Loras College
4/27 Windom, MN Windom High School
4/28 Grand Forks, ND University of North Dakota
4/29 Winnepeg, Canada Convention Center
4/30 Colorado Springs, CO Arnold Hall Center
May
5/1 Denver, CO Convention Center
5/2 Kearney, NE Kearney High School
5/3 Day off in Chicago
5/4 MF 50th Birthday Party at Faces, Chicago, IL PHOTO
5/5 Milwaukee, WI Center Stage Dinner Theatre
5/6 Terre Haute, IN South Vigo High School
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Birdland
Airegin (fades out)
Maria (fades in)
Rocky
Carnival
Over The Rainbow
Stella By Starlight
Pagliacci
5/7 St. Louis, MO Chase Park Hotel
5/8 Bloomington, IL Red Lion Inn
5/9 Adrian, MI Adrian College
5/10 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Lambton College
5/11 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Theatre
5/12 Pittsburgh, PA Springdale High School
5/13 Wildwood, NJ Convention Center
5/14 Rehearsal
5/15 Record at CBS (Carnival album?)
5/16 Rehearsal (3 to 6 p.m.)/Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair(p.m.)
5/17 Recording (10 a.m. to 1)/ Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair (p.m.)
5/18 Recording (10 a.m. to 1)/ Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair (p.m.)
5/19 Recording (10 a.m. to 1)/ Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair (p.m.)
5/20 Recording (10 a.m. to 1)/ Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair (p.m.)
5/21 Valley Forge, PA Valley Forge Music Fair
5/22 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5/23 Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair
5/24 Recording (10 a.m. to 1/ Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair(p.m.)
5/25 Recording (10 a.m. to 1/ Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair(p.m.)
5/26 Recording (10 a.m. to 1/ Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair(p.m.)
5/27 Recording (10 a.m. to 1/ Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair(p.m.)
5/28 Recording (10 a.m. to 1/ Long Island, NY Westbury Music Fair(p.m.) (Tour ends)
June
6/1 – 6/21 MF in India
6/18 Bangalore, India Concert
3 instrumental jams
6/21 MF & Flo travel from Bangalore, India to US
Rhythm section rehearsal in Chicago without MF
6/22 MF arrives Chicago, full rehearsal w/ MF
6/23 Full rehearsal w/ MF
6/24 Chicago, IL NAMM Convention (Tour begins)
6/25 Cleveland, OH Palace Theatre
6/26 Washington, DC Filene Center, Wolftrap
6/27 NY, NY Avery Fisher Hall, Newport Jazz Festival w/ Stan Getz
MF interview with Dory Trion, Aquarian Weekly
6/28 Off
MF interview with John Lissner, American Way
6/29 State College, PA The Great Gatsby Ticket
6/30 Toronto, Canada Ontario Place
TV Broadcast:
Blue Birdland
Rocky
Birdland
Carnival
Stella By Starlight
Pagliacci
July
7/1 Elmira, NY Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center
7/2 Saratoga, NY Newport Jazz Festival
7/3 Newport, RI Newport Jazz Festival w/ Buddy Rich, George Benson
7/4 – 7/6 Recording in NYC
7/7 Morristown, NY Morris College
7/8 Recording in NYC (Carnival album)
7/9 Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts
7/10 Philadelphia, PA Robin Hood Del
7/11 Rain date for above/Rehearsal
7/12 MF records (10 – 5)/ The Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, NJ (p.m.)
7/13 Bristol, CT Lake Compounce
7/14 Recording for Strings and Voices (Carnival album)
7/15 Warren, VT Sugar Bush
7/16 Cohasset, MA South Shore Music Circus
7/17 Kingston, PA Hi-Lite Lounge
7/18 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
7/19 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
Also meeting w/ CBS concerning ‘Galactica’ single
7/20 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House
7/21 Ocean City, MD Fenwick Inn
7/22 Ocean City, MD Fenwick Inn
7/23 Open
7/24 Scranton, PA Memorial Stadium
7/25 Off in NYC
7/26 Poughkeepsie, NY Last Chance Saloon
7/27 Warrenville, NJ Forrest Lodge
7/28 Pottstown, PA Sunnybrooke Ballroom
7/29 Owings Mill, MD Painter’s Mill
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Birdland
Over the Rainbow
Stella By Starlight
Blue Birdland
Set II
Rocky
Carnival
I Can’t Get Started
Padliacci (partial)
7/30 York, OA Commonswealth National Bank
7/31 Springdale, PA The Great Gatsby
August
8/1 Edinboro, PA Edinboro State College
8/2 Off
8/3 Youngstown, OH Idora Park (possibly with Buddy Rich?) – Peter Erskine photo (may be from different date)
8/4 Rochester, NY Auditorium Theatre
8/5 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Hamilton Place
8/6 Off
8/7 Detroit, MI Pontchartrain Hotel
8/8 Interlochen, MI National Music Camp
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Birdland
Over the Rainbow
Stella By Starlight
Blue Birdland
Set II
Rocky
Carnival
Pagliacci
8/9 Chicago, IL First National Bank
8/10 Hinsdale, IL Catherine Legge Memorial Park (Summer tour ends)
8/11 – 9/12 Holiday
September
9/13 – 15 Rehearsals in San Francisco, CA
9/16 Sacramento, CA Community Center Theatre (Tour begins)
9/17 Monterey, CA Monterey Jazz Festival
Radio interview w/ MF
Blue Birdland
Birdland
Airegin
Battlestar Galactica
Carnival
Stella By Starlight
Pagliacci
Blue Birdland
9/18 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Also MF radio and TV interviews
9/19 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
9/20 Redlands, CA Redlands University
9/21 Merv Griffin Taping (2 p.m.)/Los Angeles, CA The Roxy (p.m.)
9/22 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
Press interviews all day
9/23 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy (p.m.)
9/24 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theatre
9/25 San Jose, CA Convention Center
9/26 Off
9/27 Chico, CA California State University
9/28 Off
9/29 Portland, OR Paramount Theatre
9/30 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Rocky
Battlestar Galactica
Carnival
Round About Midnight
Pagliacci
I Can’t Get Started
Birdland
Somewhere – disco
Airegin
October
10/1 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Orpheum Theatre
10/2 Spokane, WA Spokane Opera House
10/3 Missoula, MT University of Montana
10/4 Calgary, Alberta, Canada University of Calgary
10/5 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada University of Alberta
10/6 Off
10/7 Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Center of the Arts
10/8 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Manitoba Central Concert Hall ARTICLE REVIEW
10/9 Fargo, ND
10/10 Minneapolis, MN
10/11 Open
10/12 Milwaukee, WI Performing Arts Center
10/13 Indianapolis, IN Butler University
10/14 Travel Day
10/15 Philadelpia, PA Academy of Music
10/16 – 17 MF records Uncle Joe Shannon in Los Angeles PHOTO
10/18 Easton, PA Lafayette College
10/19 Englewood, NJ Englewood Plaza
10/20 Mahanoy City, PA Victoria Theatre
10/21 West Point, NY Eisenhower Hall
10/22 Buffalo, NY Kleinhan’s Music Hall
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Birdland
Battlestar Galactica
Carnival
Stella By Starlight
Pagliacci
Rocky
10/23 Open
10/24 Open
10/25 Greensburg, PA Seton Hill College
10/26 Columbus, OH Ohio State University
10/27 Cleveland, OH Swingos
10/28 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/29 Akron, OH University of Akron
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Over the Rainbow
Stella By Starlight
Battlestar Galactica
Carnival
Birdland
Pagliacci
10/30 Mansfield, OH Ohio State University
10/31 Open
November
11/1 Cincinnati, OH Palace Theatre
11/2 Open
11/3 Charleston, IL Eastern Illinois University
11/4 Kalamazoo, MI Western Michigan University
11/5 Glen Ellyn IL College of DuPage
11/6 St. Louis, MO Plantation Dinner Theatre
11/7 Rock Island, IL Rock Island High School
11/8 Chicago, IL Park West
11/9 Off
11/10 Bloomington, IN Indiana University
11/11 Off
11/12 Cleveland, OH (?)
11/13 Off
11/14 Cedar Grove, NJ The Meadowbrook
11/15 NY, NY Carnegie Hall Ad
11/16 Off
11/17 Lynn, MA Lynn Memorial Auditorium
11/18 Off
11/19 Montreal, Canada Place des Arts
11/20 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Queens University
11/21 Brockport, NY
11/22 – 23 MF in Hollywood, CA for Uncle Joe Shannon premiere
11/24 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Seneca College
11/25 Erie, PA Warner Theatre
11/26 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Theatre
11/27 Chicago, IL Hilton Hotel
11/28 Off
11/29 Mt. Pleasant, IA
11/30 Cedar Rapids, IA ARTICLE
December
12/1 Geneva, WI Playboy Club
12/2 Geneva, WI Playboy Club (Tour ends)
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