Veteran R&B group New Edition announced Monday that they are bringing The Culture Tour to Memphis with a show on March 13 at FedExForum. The show will also star Charlie Wilson and special guest Jodeci.
The six members of New Edition – Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant – will take the stage next spring. This is the group’s first tour since 2014.
In 1983, New Edition released their first single, “Candy Girl”, from their self-titled album, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Black Single Charts and beating Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”. Since then, New Edition has released more than six studio albums and received several Soul Train and American Music Awards, as well as a Grammy nomination.
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Most recently, New Edition performed at the American Music Awards in November, taking the stage in the “Battle of Boston” with New Kids on the Block. In 2017, the group’s three-part biopic “The New Edition Story” aired on BET, garnering 29 million views. The same year, the group won the BET Lifetime Achievement Award.
’90s R&B group Jodeci and its co-founder and Charlie Wilson, former lead singer of’ 70s funk band The Gap Band, joined the backers of “Mr. Telephone Man” on the tour. The three award-winning acts will bring decades of R&B to one stage.
Tickets will be available at ticketmaster.com or at the FedExForum box office. Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT. General public tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT.
