Grammy winner Melanie Fiona will hit the road this summer at venues across the U.S.
The run launches June 18 at a Juneteenth Celebration at Gilman Park in San Francisco, California. R&B group Ruff Endz will also perform at the free event that requires reservations through eventbrite.com.
Fiona is set to perform on the third day of the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, which is a free event. The festival will be held at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware.
R&B singer Kem, Keyon Harrold, and The Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency are also scheduled to perform.
Fiona will be performing two consecutive shows at City Winery in Atlanta, Georgia in July. The ticket prices begin at $48.
Tickets for Fiona’s latter two concerts can be purchased on melaniefiona.com.
It has been over a decade since Melanie Fiona last released an album. Her second album, The MF Life, was released on March 20, 2012.
The MF Life featured collaborations with John Legend, T-Pain, Nas, J. Cole, and B.o.B. One of its hit singles, “4 AM,” achieved a gold certification.
In 2018, Fiona teased her third album Next Train, titled initially Awake.
“I feel like Awake has just become my lifestyle and not my album anymore,” she explains. “I didn’t want to kind of limit it to just one moment in time,” Fiona exclusively told Rated R&B in 2018.
Fiona confirmed to Rated R&B that “Bite the Bullet” would be included in the album along with songs from Sebastian Cole, Jerry Wonda, Lil Eddie, Andrea Martin, and other contributors. However, the release date for Next Train is still unknown.
Last year, Fiona picked up her first platinum award for “It Kills Me.” The song appears on Fiona’s acclaimed 2009 debut album The Bridge.
To mark International Women’s Day, Fiona teamed up with Amazon Music to release a new version of “L.O.V.E.”
She performed alongside a group of Toronto musicians and an all-female choir sponsored by Honey Jam Canada. it can be heard exclusively on Amazon Music.
Melanie Fiona Summer 2023 Dates
Jun 18 – San Francisco, CA @ Juneteenth Celebration
Jun 23 – Wilmington, DE @ Clifford Brown Jazz Festival
Jul 9 – Atlanta, GA @ City Winery Atlanta
Jul 10 – Atlanta, GA @ City Winery Atlanta
Visit Melanie Fiona’s official website for ticket information.
