Big Beautiful Tour
{{Short description|2005 concert tour by Jill Scott}}
{{Infobox concert
| concert_tour_name = Big Beautiful Tour
| image = JScott_2005TourPoster.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| image_caption =
| artist = Jill Scott
| album = Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2
| start_date = February 9, 2005
| end_date = March 26, 2005
| number_of_shows = 24 in North America
24 in total
| number_of_legs = 2
| last_tour = Buzz Tour
(2004)
| this_tour = Big Beautiful Tour
(2005)
| next_tour = Sugar Water Festival
(2005)
}}
Big Beautiful Tour was a concert tour in by American R&B recording artist Jill Scott, in support of her album Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2. The tour started on February 9, and ended on March 26, in Upper Darby, PA.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121106062933/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-811772531.html Jill Scott kicks off tour].highbeam.com[http://www.livedaily.com/news/7509.html Scott starts Beautiful tour 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626183556/http://www.livedaily.com/news/7509.html |date=2008-06-26 }}.www.livedaily.com Scott's performance received rave reviews from critics attending the shows. Jill blended a mixed sound of R&B, soul-funk, hip-hop and poetry, while delivering her hits "Golden", "A Long Walk", "The Way" and the 2005 Grammy Award-winning song "Cross My Mind".[https://web.archive.org/web/20110608192207/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-03-03/entertainment/0503030346_1_jill-scott-words-and-sounds-beautifully-human Jill Scott, life is 'awesome', and it shows].articles.baltimore.com[https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2005/03/sunday-night-with-jill-scott.html Concert review; Sunday night with Jill Scott-2005].koranteng.blogspot.com
Opening acts
- Common
- Raphael Saadiq (select dates)
Set list
- "Jilltro" (Intro Suite)
- "Warm Up"/"It's Love" (Mashup Mix)
- "Golden" (Remix)
- "A Long Walk"
- "Exclusively"
- "Gettin' In the Way"
- "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)"
- "Talk To Me"
- "Cross My Mind"
- "Bedda At Home" (Acapella)
- "Whatever"
- "Can't Explain (42nd Street Happenstance)"
- "The Fact Is (I Need You)"
- "One Is The Magic #"
- "Slowly Surely"
- "Not Like Crazy"
- "The Way"
Notes
- On select dates of the tour, opening act hip-hop star Common would ask Scott to appear on stage to perform their R&B/funk infused dance duet, "I Am Music", from his platinum-selling album Electric Circus.
Tour dates
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! width="150"| Date ! width="175"| City ! width="150"| Country ! width="250" rowspan="1"| Venue |
| bgcolor="#DDDDDD"
| colspan=4| North America |
| February 9, 2005
|rowspan="19"|United States |
| February 10, 2005
|rowspan="2"|Oakland |rowspan="2"|Paramount Theatre |
| February 11, 2005 |
| February 14, 2005 |
| February 17, 2005 |
| February 20, 2005 |
| February 22, 2005 |
| February 23, 2005 |
| February 25, 2005 |
| February 26, 2005 |
| February 28, 2005 |
| March 2, 2005 |
| March 3, 2005 |
| March 4, 2005
|rowspan="2"|New York City |rowspan="2"|Radio City Music Hall |
| March 5, 2005 |
| March 8, 2005 |
| March 9, 2005
|rowspan="2"|Washington, D.C. |rowspan="2"|DAR Constitution Hall |
| March 10, 2005 |
| March 13, 2005 |
| March 16, 2005 |
| March 19, 2005
|rowspan="5"|United States |
| March 20, 2005 |
| March 23, 2005 |
| March 24, 2005 |
| March 26, 2005 |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110930174814/http://www.jillscott.com/buzz/2005/big-beautiful-tour-arrives-to-la-for-valentines-day.html jillscott.com-big beautiful tour arrives]. 2005
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110930174819/http://www.jillscott.com/buzz/2005/big-beautiful-tour-hits-dc-with-common.html jillscott.com-tour hits d.c. with common]. 2005
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