1976 Tour Dates
These dates came from MF’s personal gig calendar, and were later confirmed by Gordon Johnson.
Montreal Olympics Closing Ceremonies
January
1/15 MF flies to Tampa, FL
1/16 Tampa, FL MF solo appearance
1/17 Ft. Lauderdale, FL MF solo appearance
1/18 – 1/19 MF holiday in Key West
1/20 Lexington, VA MF solo appearance
1/21 Chicago, IL Band rehearsal (Tour begins)
1/22 Hanover Park, IL Camel’s Hump
1/23 Indianapolis, IN Pike High School
1/24 Akron, OH University of Akron
1/25 Reading, PA Stokesay Castle
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Chameleon
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me
Two For Otis
Pagliacci
MacArthur Park
Fruit of the Loon
1/26 Camp Hill, PA Cedar Cliff High School
1/27 Pittsburgh, PA Baldwin High School
1/28 Dayton, OH MF solo appearance
1/29 Huntington, WV Keith Albee Theatre
1/30 Baltimore, MD
1/31 Succasunna, NJ Roxbury High School
February
2/1 Malverne, PA Great Valley High School
2/2 Lansdale, PA North Penn High School
2/3 Indiana, PA University of Pennsylvania Article
2/4 NY, NY Taping for CBS TV(Cancelled?)
2/5 West Orange, NJ West Orange High School Poster
2/6 North Brunswick, NJ Holiday Inn (moved to Aug 6)
2/7 Cheshire, CT
2/8 Open
2/9 Carroll, OH Bloom-Carroll High School
2/10 Chicago, IL
2/11 Rolling Meadows, IL Rolling Meadows High School Article
2/12 Maryvale, MO NW Missouri State College
2/13 Lincoln, NE Nebraska Wesleyan University
2/14 Des Moines, IA Drake University
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Two For Otis
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
Pagliacci
2/15 Manhattan, KS Kansas State University
2/16 Omaha, NE Josyln Art Museum
2/17 Open (band in St. Louis)
2/18 Kirkwood, MO Kirkwood High School
2/19 Livonia, MI Clarenceville High School
Partial recording:
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down
Tommy Medley
2/20 Mt. Pleasant, MI Central Michigan University
2/21 Morrisville, NY SUNY Syracuse
2/22 Manchester, NH Palace Theatre
2/23 Windsor Locks, CT Howard Johnson Motel
2/24 Windsor Locks, CT Howard Johnson Motel
2/25 Johnson, VT Johnson State College (canceled?)
2/26 Open
2/27 Clarion, PA Clarion State College
2/28 Bethesda, MD Walt Whitman High School
2/29 Lynchburg, VA E. C. Glass High School
March
3/1 Knoxville, TN Halls High School
3/2 Birmingham, AL Vestavia High School
3/3 Valdosta, GA Valdosta State College
3/4 Auburn, AL Auburn University
3/5 Open
3/6 Jacksonville, AL Jacksonville State College
3/7 Atlanta, GA
3/8 Open
3/9 Jacksonville, FL Civic Auditorium
3/10 Dunedin, FL Dunedin High School
3/11 Palm Beach, FL Mahalpan Club
3/12 Miami, FL University of Miami
3/13 West Palm Beach, FL J & B Lounge
3/14 Tampa, FL Letter Carrier’s Hall
3/15 Dunedin, FL
3/16 Winter Park, FL Monty’s Pub
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give it One
Primal Scream
Two for Otis
Danny Boy
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Trumpet Section intro and heckler smackdown
Tommy Medley/Blue Birdland
Sets 2 & 3 Not in circulation
3/17 Winter Park, FL Monty’s Pub
Set I not in circulation
Set II
MacArthur Park
Chameleon
Danny Boy
Fruit of the Loon
Pagliacci/Blue Birdland
Set III>
One O’Clock Jump
Frame for the Blues
Gospel John/Blue Birdland
3/18 Seguin, TX MacArthur High School
3/19 Sinton, TX Sinton High School
(Set I from one of these TX dates)
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Two For Otis
Don’t Le the Sun Go Down on Me
Tommy Medley
3/20 – 21 Arlington, TX University of Texas
3/22 Midwest City, OK Earl Albert High School
3/23 Tahlequah, OK NE Oklahoma State College
3/24 Open
3/25 Farmington, NM Farmington High School
3/26 Thatcher, AZ Eastern Arizona College
3/27 Mesa, AZ Westwood High School
3/28 Anaheim, CA West Lincoln High School
3/29 Redondo, CA Concerts By the Sea
3/30 San Luis Obispo, CA Cuesta College
3/31 Lodi, CA Tokay High School
April
4/1 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
4/2 Merced, CA
4/3 Morgan Hill, CA Live Oak High School
4/4 Selinas, CA
4/5 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
4/6 Sacramento, CA Sacramento City College
4/7 St. Helena, CA St. Helena High School (Tour ends)
4/8 – 4/29 Holiday
4/30 Fargo, ND (Tour begins)
May
5/1 Sioux Falls, SD Augustana College
5/2 Marshall Town, IA B.R. Miller Auditorium
5/3 Rock Island, IL Rock Island High School
5/4 Waldorf, MN Waldorf-Pemberton High School
5/5 St. Joseph, MN College of St. Benedict
5/6 Sussex, WI Hamilton High School
5/7 Zion, IL Leisure Ice Arena
5/8 Terre Haute, IN South Vigo High School
5/9 Baldwin, MO Barn Dinner Theater
5/10 Springfield, MO Glendale High School
5/11 Open
5/12 Riceville, IA Riceville High School
5/13 St. Paul, MN Prom Center
5/14 Rockford, IL West High School
5/15 Milwaukee, WI Center Stage Dinner Theater
5/16 Troy, MI Athens High School
5/17 Elkhart, IN Elkhart Central High School
5/18 Schaumberg, IL Schaumberg High School
5/19 Trenton, MI Trenton High School (Athens HS)?
Partial recording:
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down
Tommy
I Can’t Get Started
5/20 Columbus, OH Grandview Inn
5/21 Cincinnati, OH Walnut Hills High School
5/22 Off
5/23 Kansas City, MO Capri Lyric Theatre
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Two For Otis
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down
Oral Latin – Joe Mosello
Tommy Medley
Set 2
Blue Birdland
MacArthur Park
Chameleon
I Can’t Get Started
Getting Sentimental
Gospel John
Frame For The Blues
Pagliacci
Nice N Juicy
Blue Birdland
5/24 Off
5/25 Boulder, CO Boulder High School
5/26 Evergreen, CO Upper Bear Creek
5/27 Aurora, CO Aurora-Hinkley High School
5/28 San Francisco, CA Palace of Fine Arts (w/ Woody Herman)
5/29 – 30 Anaheim, CA Disneyland
5/30 Redondo Beach, CA Concerts By the Sea
June
6/1 San Diego, CA The Bacchanal
6/2 Pre-record music for Olympics Closing Ceremonies (a.m.)/North Hollywood, CA Dante’s (p.m.)
6/3 Las Vegas, NV Stardust
6/4 Off
Japan Tour
6/5 Fly to Tokyo
6/6 Arrive in Tokyo
6/7 Tokyo, Japan Press conference
6/8 Tokyo, Japan Kosei Nenkin Hall
6/9 Tokyo, Japan Yubin Chokin Hall
6/10 Numazu, Japan Numazu-Shi Kokaido
6/11 Osaka, Japan Kosei Nenkin Hall
6/12 Nagoya, Japan Aichi-Ken Kenso-Kaiken
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Chameleon
Two For Otis
I Can’t Get Started
Tommy Medley
Set II
MacArthur Park
Primal Scream
Gospel John
6/13 Off
6/14 Matsue, Shimane, Japan Kinmin-Kaiken
6/15 Off
6/16 Kokura, Japan Kokura Shimin Kaiken
6/17 Kumamoto, Japan Shimin Kaiken
6/18 Fukuoka, Japan Fukuoka Shimin Kaiken
6/19 Off
6/20 Tokyo, Japan Kosei Nenkin Hall
6/21 Fly to Los Angeles, CA
6/22 Off
6/23 Dinah Shore taping (a.m.)/Los Angeles, CA Starwood Theater (p.m.)
Dinah setlist:
Groucho
Pagliacci
Interview
Introducing Kim Ferguson
Something (w/ Dinah)
Blue Birdland
6/24 Los Angeles, CA Starwood Theater
6/25 Band flies to Chicago, IL
6/26 Rhythm section rehearsal
6/27 All day rehearsal
6/28 Chicago, IL
6/29 Chagrin Falls, OH
6/30 Chagrin Falls, OH
July
7/1 NY, NY City Center (w/ Stan Kenton) (Newport Jazz Festival) (article)
Audio from Wolfgang’s Vaulte:
Blue Birdbland
Give It One
Primal Scream
Two For Otis
Round About Midnight
Chameleon
Airegin
Pagliacci
7/2 Saratoga, NY Performing Arts Center
7/3 Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall, Garden City, NJ
7/4 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
7/5 West Peabody, MA Holiday Inn
7/6 West Peabody, MA Holiday Inn
7/7 Detroit, MI Hotel Pontchartrain
7/8 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
7/9 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
7/10 Dayton, OH Gilly’s
7/11 Off, drive to Philadelphia
7/12 Philadelphia, PA Robin Hood Dell
7/13 Rain date (Off)
7/14 Wilkes-Barre, PA Hi-Lite Club
7/15 Baltimore, MD Inner Harbor Constellation Dock
7/16 Off
7/17 Atlantic City, NJ Le Bistro
7/18 Rehearsal
7/19 Mike Douglas, 10 a.m./Mahwah, NJ Ramapo College (p.m.)
7/20 Cleveland, OH Hanna Mall
7/21 Mishawaka, IN Holiday Inn
7/22 Chicago, IL 1st National Bank
7/23 Rochester, MI Oakland University, Meadowbrook Music Festival
7/24 Toronto, Canada The Forum, Ontario Place
7/25 Buffalo, NY Executive Hotel
7/26 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Jock Harty Arena
7/27 Sherbrook, Canada Center Cultural
7/28 Montreal, Canada Place des Arts
7/29 Midnight rehearsal for Olympic Closing Ceremonies
7/30 Montreal, Canada Olympic Village
7/31 Waitsfield, VT Glen Ellen Ski Area
August
8/1 Montreal, Canada Olympic Closing Ceremonies PHOTO
8/2 Open
8/3 Ottawa, Canada National Arts Center
8/4 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5
Thanks to David Fay for the photos!
8/5 Bristol, CT – Lake Compounce
8/6 North Brunswick, NJ Holiday Inn (moved from Feb 6)
8/7 Washington, DC (w/ Jay Chattaway)
8/8 Dania, FL
8/9 Atlantic City, NJ (Rained out, postponed to 8/11)
8/10 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
8/11 Atlantic City, NJ
8/12 Skaneateles, NY Old Stone Mill
8/13 Lake George, NY Lake George Dinner Theatre
8/14 Pownal, VT Green Mountain Racetrack
8/15 Cohasset, MA Cohasset Music Circus w/ Buddy Rich
8/16 Off
8/17 Norton, OH Brown Derby
8/18 Edinboro, PA Edinboro State College
8/19 Youngstown, OH Idora Park w/ Buddy Rich (Tour ends)
8/20 – 9/16 Holiday
September
9/17 MF flies to Buffalo
9/18 – 20 Rehearsals (see article published 9/20/76)
9/21 Buffalo, NY Executive Hotel (Tour begins)
9/22 Off
9/23 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Theatre
9/24 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Lambton College
9/25 Off
9/26 Decatur, IL Milliken University
9/27 Chicago, IL Jazz Showcase
9/28 Marshfield, WI University of Wisconsin
9/29 St. Paul, MN Prom Center
9/30 Waverly, IA Wartburg College Article
October
10/1 DeKalb, IL
10/2 Columbus, OH Grand View Inn
10/3 Fly to New York
10/4 Off
10/5 Mendham, NJ Mendham High School
Recording sessions in Oct 3 4 5 6 7 of ’76. THAT was Conquistador!-Gordon Johnson
10/6 Recording session
10/7 Recording session
10/8 North Brunswick, NJ Holiday Inn
10/9 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Massey Hall
10/10 Latham, NY Coliseum Summer Theatre
10/11 Carlisle, PA Carlisle High School
10/12 Morgantown, WV West Virginia University
10/13 Off
10/14 Cincinnati, OH Maggie’s Opera House
10/15 Cookeville, TN Tennessee Tech University
10/16 Johnson City, TN East Tennessee University
10/17 Off
10/18 Off
10/19 Wilmington, DE Mt. Pleasant High School
10/20 Rocky Mountain, NC
10/21 Durham, NC North Carolina Central University
10/22 Orlando, FL Tupperware Auditorium
10/23 Dania Beach, FL
10/24 Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
10/25 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada University of Saskatchewan
10/26 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Mount Royal University
10/27 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Community Theatre
10/28 Vancouver, British Columba, Canada Commodore Ballroom
10/29 Vancouver, British Columba, Canada Commodore Ballroom
10/30 Seattle, WA Shoreline Community College
10/31/76 I had written that we played Pasco, WA the venue is Columbia Basin College -GJ
November
11/1 Portland, OR Sunset High School
11/2 Off—Travel to San Franciscan Hotel, CA (5 day stay)
11/3 San Pablo, CA Contra Costa Community College
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
One For Otis
The Way We Were
Conquistador
Set II
MacArthur Park
Chameleon
Airegin
I Can’t Get Started
Pagliacci
11/4 Sacramento, CA Sacramento City College
11/5 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
11/6 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
11/7 Burbank, CA Castaway Restaurant
11/8 Paradise, CA Paradise High School
11/9 Hayward, CA Chabot College
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Primal Scream
One For Otis
Conquistador
Set II
MacArthur Park
Chameleon
I Can’t Get Started
Pagliacci
11/10 Oxnard, CA Oxnard High School
11/11 Anaheim, CA Anaheim High School
11/12 Los Angeles, CA Canoga Park, King Arthur’s
11/13 Salt Lake City, UT University of Utah Article
11/14 Pocatello, ID
11/15 Off
11/16 Douglas, WY Converse High School
11/17 Rock Springs, WY Rock Springs High School
11/18 Ft. Collins, CO Student Center Ballroom
11/19 Arvada, CO Pomona High School
11/20 Colorado Springs, CO Doherty High School Article Review
11/21 Denver, CO Turn of the Century
11/22 Syracuse, KS Syracuse High School
11/23Tulsa, OK Tulsa High School
11/24 Raytown, MO Raytown High School
11/25 Des Moines, IA Eddie Webster’s
11/26 Burnsville, MN Burnsville High School
11/27 Off
11/28 Chicago, IL “Four Torches”
11/29 Chicago, IL O’Hare Hilton Hotel, Chicago
11/30 St. Louis, MO Barn Dinner Theatre
December
12/1 St. Louis, MO Cleveland High School
12/2 Iowa City, IA University of Iowa
12/3 Palos Hills, IL Moraine Valley Community College
12/4 Stevensville, MI Lakeshore High School
12/5 Bloomington, IL Red Lion
12/6 Whitefish Bay, WI Whitefish High School
12/7 Off
12/8 Peru, IN Peru High School
12/9 Riverside, IL Riverside-Brookfield High School
12/10 Trenton, MI Trenton High School
12/11 Ft. Wayne, IN Indiana Univ/Purdue Univ at Ft. Wayne
12/12 Toledo, OH University of Toledo (Tour ends)
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