Cyndi Lauper, Counting Crows set Jones Beach shows
She still wants to have fun: Cyndi Lauper, 71, is headed for Jones Beach this summer. Credit: Getty Images / Kerry Marshall
Cyndi Lauper and Counting Crows are the latest acts to announce tours that will stop at Wantagh’s Northwell at Jones Beach Theater this summer.
Lauper will play Jones Beach on July 19. The Counting Crows, with opening act The Gaslight Anthem, will play there on June 29.
Lauper, 71, is extending her "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell" tour, which began in October at Montreal’s Bell Centre with a set list that reportedly included such hits as "Money Changes Everything," "True Colors" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." The tour was scheduled to end in April in Japan but will now resume July 15 in Buffalo and continue through August in Los Angeles. The singer has earned glowing reviews for her splashy stage sets, costume changes and a voice that remains powerful more than 40 years after her 1983 debut album, "She’s So Unusual." Lauper’s opening act will be Jake Wesley Rogers, a onetime contestant on "America’s Got Talent," whose latest album, "In the Key of Love," is due May 9.
During the tour, Lauper has also helped raise more than $150,000 from fans for the Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights Fund at the Tides Foundation, according to a news release.
Artist presale tickets for Lauper’s summer shows will be available Tuesday at 10 a.m. and general on-sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. at cyndilauper.com.
The Counting Crows will launch their 68-date trek — titled "The Complete Sweets! Tour" — on June 10 in Nashville, Tennessee, and wrap up Nov. 1 in London, accompanied by The Gaslight Anthem on nearly all North American dates. The tour takes its name from the Counting Crows’ upcoming album, "Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!" Due May 9, it will be the band’s eighth full-length studio album since their 1993 debut, "August and Everything After," which spawned the hit single "Mr. Jones" and turned dreadlocked frontman Adam Duritz into one of the most recognizable rockers of the 1990s. (Duritz shaved his hair in 2019.)
Artist presale tickets for the Counting Crows will be available Tuesday at 10 a.m. and general-public tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. For more information, go to countingcrows.com.
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