The undoubted Queen of British Soul Beverley Knight is joining Gary Barlow for his 2025 UK Tour which includes a headline show at TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre.
The Songbook Tour is set to be a huge celebration of Gary’s illustrious four-decade-spanning career and will see him perform an array of songs from his much-celebrated back catalogue of hits with both Take That and as a solo artist.
Gary headlines Scarborough OAT, on Friday June 13. Final tickets are on sale now from ticketmaster.co.uk and scarboroughopenairtheatre.com
Gary will be joined on the night by very special guest and national treasure Beverley Knight.
An Olivier award-winning star of the West End and an astounding singer with a prolific music career, Beverley has released several Top 10 albums and sold more than a million albums in the UK – with four gold-certified.
Her headline tour ‘50’ last year marked the release of her ninth studio album ‘The Fifth Chapter’ and was her biggest ever tour of the UK, including a sold-out Royal Albert Hall.
The Wolverhampton-born star has forged a formidable parallel career in theatre. Beverley’s West End debut was the starring role in The Bodyguard followed by leading the Tony-winning Memphis The Musical. She has played the iconic role of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and won an Olivier Award for her portrayal of Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia at The Old Vic.
In 2024, Beverley reprised her role as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act opposite Ruth Jones at the Dominion and this spring Beverley will feature as the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe in her first professional theatre play Marie and Rosetta.
Beverley was awarded an MBE in 2007 for services to British music and charity, has won an Oliver Award (and twice nominated for Best Actress), won three MOBO Awards, been nominated for Best Female at the BRIT Awards three times and Best Album at the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. Last year she also won the Outstanding Contribution to Diversity Award at the European Diversity Awards and was honoured at the Ethnicity Awards for her continued efforts in the field.
This musical force of nature is a long-time friend of Gary Barlow, having joined Take That as their very special guest for the band’s first UK Tour after reforming in 2006. Beverley also has duetted with Gary on the fourth single Enough is Enough on his last album Music Played by Humans.
The Songbook Tour 2025 will celebrate Gary’s status as one of Britain’s most successful songwriters and record producers.
His June 11 Scarborough OAT show will be the second time he has headlined the famous Yorkshire coast venue – the UK’s largest open air concert arena – after a sold-out show there in 2018.
Gary joins Pendulum, Judas Priest, Snow Patrol, The Corrs, Rag’n’Bone Man, Blossoms, Shed Seven, McFly, Basement Jaxx, Texas, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and The Script as the headliners already announced for TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre 2025.
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