Michael Bolton to play at The Grand Canal Theatre

Tickets for this fully seated show are priced €65.70, €59.80 and €54.80 and go on sale Monday 14 December at 9am through Ticketmaster and other usual outlets nationwide.

Bolton will be performing songs from his new (and eighteenth) record, One World One Love, as well as his famous hits.

With this album, Bolton wanted to go for something with a more uplifting mood. “Every song had to make you feel good, because people have enough hardships to think about right now. They need to feel good. No heartbreak songs became our mantra," he says.

Rather than focusing on covers of soul classics, Bolton went looking for “young guns who had been teenagers while my early records were being played," he explains. "I needed to work with writers and producers who have a firm grasp of contemporary music but at the same time are knowledgeable and educated in the world of music I come from.”

He wrote and recorded with a couple of guys from Toronto, Nasri Atwah and Adam Messinger, whose credits included Brandy and the High School Musical crew, as well as another pair, Mike Mani and Jordan Omley (known as 'The Jam'), who had worked with Leona Lewis.

Bolton also co-wrote 'Murder My Heart' with Lady Gaga, who sings back up on the track, and Ne-Yo, who is featured on 'The Best'.

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