Saving Grace with Robert Plant

[Zep Hed]

In June, Robert Plant announced a new tour under the name Robert Plant Presents Saving Grace feat. Suzi Dian, with a sold-out concert at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp on 27 October. And there's good news! Thanks to the enthusiasm for his live comeback, Robert Plant and co have decided to add another Belgian date to their 2025 tour schedule! Experience Robert Plant Presents Saving Grace feat. Suzi Dian live on Saturday, 3 May at Cirque Royal in Brussels!

https://www.livenation.be/show/1516921/robert-plant-presents-saving-grace-feat-suzi-dian/brussels/2025-05-03

[Zep Hed]

 

[zeplz71]

29 minutes ago, Zep Hed said:

 

I'll be watching this tonight

[zeppcollect]

Just want everybody led to know that SAVING GRACE'S full performance at the Event Hall in Basel on October 25th 2024 has been filmed professionally by Swiss Television and will be screened very soon - will hopefully turn up in November on youtube

[zeplz71]

17 hours ago, zeppcollect said:

Just want everybody led to know that SAVING GRACE'S full performance at the Event Hall in Basel on October 25th 2024 has been filmed professionally by Swiss Television and will be screened very soon - will hopefully turn up in November on youtube

Thanks!

[zeppcollect]

Yes, it's been true - feels like christmas !!!! Can't say how lucky I am and what a fantastic Show

 

[The Pagemeister]

 

[Zep Hed]

 

[sam_webmaster]

Robert Plant and Suzi Dian return to Italy for a single date at Lucca Summer Festival

The legendary voice of Led Zeppelin will be in concert with the Saving Grace project on July 13th in Piazza Napoleone

Robert Plant returns to Italy together with Suzi Dian with the  Saving Grace  project  for a single, unmissable date in 2025.  On July 13 , in the evocative setting of  Piazza Napoleone in Lucca, Plant will lead the audience on an intimate and fascinating musical journey.

Saving Grace  is the project that sees on stage  Robert Plant (vocals), Suzi Dian (vocals), Oli Jefferson (percussion), Tony Kelsey (mandolin, baritone and acoustic guitars) and Matt Worley (banjo, acoustic and baritone guitars, cuatro) . Born in 2019 with a series of surprise concerts in small clubs in England, Wales and Ireland, Saving Grace has fascinated the audience with a repertoire inspired by the British and American folk tradition, spirituals and blues, reinterpreting classics by  Doc Watson, Donovan, Moby Grape, Low  and many others.

After the success of recent tours, this will be  the only opportunity for the Italian public to experience the magic of Saving Grace live in 2025. The unique atmosphere of the  Lucca Summer Festival , with its stage immersed in the history of the Tuscan city, will make this evening even more special, offering spectators an unforgettable experience.

TICKETS ON SALE ON  TICKETONE.IT

For more information, visit the page  www.luccasummerfestival.it

 

 

[sam_webmaster]

https://oor.nl/concerten/robert-plant-bewandelt-met-saving-grace-onzichtbare-paden-in-carre/

(Google translated)

Robert Plant connects styles, cultures and generations in Carré

In the publicity surrounding the performances of Robert Plant, it is often about the free, casual way in which he has shaped his career after Led Zeppelin. Still, Saving Grace in Carré puts a completely different talent of Plant at the center and, no, that has nothing to do with the wear-resistant vocal cords of the 76-year-old singer.

Photography Willem Schalekamp

 

If Robert Plant in his work with Alison Krauss, The Strange Sensation, Priory of Brion, Band Of Joy and The Sensational Space Shifters makes something clear, then it is his resistance to meet the traditional image of rock legend. Due to the release of the beautiful Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary, ‘Percy’ was recently rebuked with fresh reluctance to that legendary past, but now the attention can be completely on the here and now.

He does this with Saving Grace, a semi-acoustic band of young, talented Britons from the Birmingham region, who was founded the following year after an intimate try-out in 2018. Most attention is paid to singer Suzi Dian (artist name of Suzanne Dingle) who previously heard at Roadhouse, Suzi And The Backbeats and the Jasper Carrott band. In Carré, Suzi Dian and Robert Plant are assisted by Dian’s husband Oli Jefferson (drums, percussion), Tony Kelsey (guitar), Matt Worley (banjo, mandolin, guitar) and Barney “Duoonic” Morse-Brown (cello).

In a passionate and passionate performance, we hear the alternating full or fragile vocals of Suzi Dian; sometimes solo, but much more often in duet with Robert Plant who, of course less exuberant than in the Led Zep time, still knows how to captivate with his characteristic, enchanting and polite vocals. Plants characteristic charlie are certainly there, but sparing and well-dosed. The dynamic interplay between banjo, mandolin and guitar, combined with an adventurous rhythm section, provides the colorful and varied support that lifts the evening to great heights. An evening full of melancholic, mysterious, moving and exuberant moments.

And then the set. It contains an eclectic mix of obscure traditionals, covers, solo work and Led Zeppelin songs. For example, The Cuckoo was recorded by Rory Gallagher in the 1970s and Blind Willie Johnson’s version of The Soul Of A Man from 1930 is based. It is great that we, besides a strong singing Matt Worley, also plant on harmonica.

During the introduction of Moby Grape’s It’s A Beautiful Day Today, the host with hypothermic British humor will remember how he listened to The Incredible String Band at home in Wolverhampton and thought: what the fuck! It was the beginning of a musical discovery that put him on the trail of many ‘new’ bands, jokingly also citing Golden Earring (with whom he once shared the same management).

In Everybody’s Song of Low, Saving Grace is increasing the volume. Something they should have done more often. Plant reports that this song is on a new album that ‘decided will be released this century’. Neil Young’s For The Turnstiles, Los Lobos’ Angel Dance, Orphan Girl by Gillian Welch and the British traditional I Never Will Marry (a.o. Pete Seeger and Linda Ronstadt) pass by. From Plant’s solo catalogue, only Fate Of Nations’s Down To The Sea (1993) is picked, with Dian hanging the accordion. Something she will repeat regularly very deserving.

The inevitable Led Zeppelin selection consists of beautiful adaptations of Four Sticks, Friends, The Rain Song and Gallows Pole, the original of racism in the American South in 1939, which was recorded by Lead Belly. During that intense encore, including fragments of Black Dog, Plant brings back with a fat nod to the rock star that winds his audience just as mercilessly around his finger.

Robert Plant is and will remain a charismatic frontman. A musical sponge that offers young talents a stage. Tonight, Saving Grace makes the connection between generations, styles, currents and cultures like no other. Delta blues, bluegrass, westcoast, Celtic folk, americana, North African and oriental influences and the rugged blues and hard rock that started it all in 1968; Robert Plant is the guide who walks with us invisible paths. With modest, subtle hints and an authentic compass, he maps a world where boundaries disappear and time fades.

Seen: May 6, 2025 in Carré, Amsterdam

 

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[zeppcollect]

Seems (with the exception "Soul Of A Man") like the set remains the same. I was hoping for some new material. As much as I enjoyed the previous tours, it's about time, the band moves forwards and present something which is fresh ....

[reids]

Thanks, Sam. I do hope they record or release a live album/ cd, dvd, blu ray.

R😎

7 hours ago, zeppcollect said:

Seems (with the exception "Soul Of A Man") like the set remains the same. I was hoping for some new material. As much as I enjoyed the previous tours, it's about time, the band moves forwards and present something which is fresh ....

That’d be nice. 

R😎

[sam_webmaster]

Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian will be performing on 26th July 2025 at Palacio De Congresos De Granada. 

Tickets available now https://RobertPlant.lnk.to/SGGranada

 

 

[zeppcollect]

Watched SAVING GRACE's performance in Gothenburg (from May 10) yesterday and before playing "Everybody's Song" Robert Plant confirms that they have finally done an album !!!

[Serena]

Well, last week in Amsterdam he said an album is going to be released this century😊

[luvlz2]

 

[reids]

On 5/14/2025 at 7:22 AM, Serena said:

Well, last week in Amsterdam he said an album is going to be released this century😊

Excellent!!! Hopefully the earlier part of this century 🥳

R😎🎶

[sam_webmaster]

 

Rock legend's voice: Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant in Vilnius, Lithuania

- Ramūnas Zilnys, Photos by Simas Martinonis

Google Translated:

The name, for which there are not many more prominent in the history of rock. Such a Friday evening was recorded in the posters of the concert held in Vilnius.

Robert Plant is one of the most famous rock singers of all time, famous for his hugely popular British band Led Zeppelin.

The band, who broke out in 1980, has only returned to the scene once and in 2007, when they paid tribute to the memory of its record holder Ahmet Ertegun in a special performance in London.

Although there was talk that other members of the band wanted to re-create Led Zeppelin and the space money offered for the concerts, this did not happen.

It is no secret that with the constant return of Led Zeppelin to the stage, it was R. Plant. Other musicians, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones, are even considering inviting another vocalist, but eventually abandoned those plans.

Why R. Does the plant not want to go back to the old days? One reason is that for the past couple of decades it has been far removed from heavy rock music.

He formed Band of Joy and The Sensational Shape Shifters, with which recorded music is heading to the bliddle, British Folk and American country genre.

The latter also includes two very successful albums, which R. Plant recorded with U.S. country star Alison Krauss - the joint work of these artists was awarded the prestigious Grammy Award.

So far R. Plantas visited Lithuania twice – in 2005 he performed in Vilnius, and in 2011 – Trakai Castle.

After a break of fourteen years, the singer returned to our country this time to the Vilnius Hall Compensa with the band Saving Grace, whose music is permeated with elements of folklore and blues.

Listening to her music often looks like you were sitting in a cozy bar of a small town in England – it’s very far from the banging and pompous, which was not lacking in Led Zeppelin’s work.

On the one hand, the 76-year-old R. For the plant, such a musical background is clearly closer to the heart than the attempts to perform a natural and youthful rock star.

On the other hand, there are always listeners who do not follow the later R. Plant's careers and those who are surprised by the sound he has turned to these days. A number of disturbed faces could also be seen in the capital hall on Friday.

One can also understand the surprise of some viewers – to the program instead of rock works R. Plant with the band included both the blues legend Robert Johnson's song and the US experimental band "Low," which, as he said on stage, will be played on a new album by Saving Grace.

“We are basically a folk band. With delta blues, psychedelic music impurities, but after all, a folk band," R. said during the evening. Plant.

The singer’s name is still of great interest – all tickets to the concert in Lithuania were snatched, and not every foreign star coming to our country can boast of this in these times of great competition.

The concert was started by warm-up musicians from Estonia – guitarists Ainas Aganas and Andre Maaker.

Robert Plant and the band took to the stage about the ninth night – quite modestly, a curtain with the band’s logo in the decorated stage.

Acoustic guitar, cello, accordion, fragments of oriental music and the gentle voice of the band's vocalist Suzi Dian - it immediately became clear that this concert would not have little in common with heavy rock.

British folklore, old blues, song from Canadian rocker Neil Young's repertoire - what they choose to sing R today. Plant, is not a nostalgic trip to the Led Zeppelin times, perhaps some of the listeners of which they expect.

On the other hand, a couple of respect marks for the history of Led Zeppelin in the concerts still sound – songs such as “Ramble On”, “The Rain Song”, “Friends” or the band’s once reworked folk song “Gallow’s Pole” let’s not forget what kind of legend the representative stands in front of us. It was these songs, of course, that the audience was met with the warmest.

76-year-old R. The voice of the plant still sounds suggestive and firmly, he himself looks quite energetic on the stage, and behind the scenes there was talk that on the eve of the concert the singer was in the bars of the capital.

Listening to the concert, even the idea that the way Robert presents his voice today is perhaps even more interesting than trying to chase the shadows of the Led Zeppelin past.

“I want to look forward. I do what I like and I don’t try to follow the rules,” R.Plant said.

You can’t argue – this singer, who has reached the heights of the rock, really deserves to behave as he wants.

https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/muzika/680/2572536/roko-legendos-balsas-led-zeppelin-vokalistas-robertas-plantas-surenge-koncerta-vilniuje

[reids]

Thanks for sharing, Sam. 
 

R😎🎶