Classic Tour was the first solo UK tour by English singer Joe McElderry. The tour took place throughout November 2011.

Support Acts

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*The Reason 4 *

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About the tour

For the tour, McElderry performed songs of his albums, ''Wide Awake'', released under Syco, ''Classic'', released under

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, and would later add "Last Christmas" to the set, which is featured on his third album, ''Classic Christmas'', also released under Decca. He also performed songs that was sung on The X Factor and The X Factor Tour 2010 as well as some new covers that he had never sung before. He set up a poll on his

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asking which song he should sing on the tour, the choices were "

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", " I Won't Let You Go", " Halo", " Someone Like You", " Your Song" or " The Edge of Glory". "Home" was chosen to be performed on the tour. The tour scored third place on

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's Hot Tours, with grosses of £421,219 (US$665,833).

Setlist

*Show Opener #If You Love Me # Real Late Starter # Smile #Wide Awake * The X Factor #

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# Love Story # Open Arms #

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# Ambitions #

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#Until The Stars Run Out * Classic #

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Canto Della Terra "Canto della Terra" is an Italian song which was the second single from Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli's 1999 album, ''Sogno''. The song was written by composer Francesco Sartori and lyricist Lucio Quarantotto, the same writers of Bocelli's bi ...

# Dance With My Father #

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Time To Say Goodbye Time to Say Goodbye may refer to: * "Time to Say Goodbye" (Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman song), a version of Andrea Bocelli's song "Con te partirò" with Sarah Brightman * ''Time to Say Goodbye'' (album), a 1997 album by Sarah Brightman *''Tim ...

# Nessun Dorma *Encore #

Over The Rainbow #

# Last Christmas (added on 14 November) # The Climb

Tour Dates

The first two shows were warm up gigs and were not advertised on his official website. A second Newcastle City Hall gig was added due to popular demand.News
''joemcelderryofficial.com''. Retrieved on 28 November 2011.

References

{{Joe McElderry 2011 concert tours