Van will perform Astral Weeks at the Hollywood Bowl with many of the musicians who participated in the original studio sessions 40 years ago. Tickets go on sale on Sunday October 5 from ticketmaster.com
"This is a welcome opportunity for me to perform these songs the way I originally intended them to be," Van enthuses. "It's about the world of creation and of the imagination: That is what a song is, a little movie with melodies and music built around it, poetry in moving pictures in the mind...In the 60' and 70's the record companies did not support the music, so I never got to take these songs on tour, and I certainly did not have the money to do it. These songs are as timeless and fresh right now as the day they were written and I am happy about taking them to the Hollywood Bowl."
The two shows will be edited down into an Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl album, which will emerge just before Christmas on Morrison’s new Listen To The Lion label.