Credit: Jill FurmanovskyChrissie Hynde is famous for her singing and songwriting prowess, but the Pretenders frontwoman recently has been putting her creative talents into oil painting and will be releasing a limited-edition book focusing on her artwork this September. The book, titled Adding the Blue, will feature almost 200 examples of her art.
Hynde, who studied art as a student at Ohio’s Kent State University before following her passion for music, says “I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock ‘n’ roll and then I had kids. All their life everyone feels that they’ve missed the boat, that they haven’t figured it out. All this work’s been done over the age of 65 when I wasn’t expecting to do it. I thought it was too late but then I moved and I started painting. As soon as that happened, I just couldn’t stop.”
A series of fine art prints of Hynde’s painting will be available in conjunction with the book’s publication. You can sign up for updates about the book by visiting AddingtheBlue.com.
The Pretenders kicked off a brief series U.S. spring tour dates on Sunday in Miami Beach, Florida. The band also has lined up a run of stateside summer concerts through a July 21 concert in Denver, including a few dates opening for Def Leppard and Journey.
Here are all of The Pretenders’ upcoming U.S. shows; all are headlining gigs unless otherwise noted:
3/27 — North Charleston, SC, North Charleston Performing Arts Center
3/28 — Greenville, SC, Peace Center Concert Hall
3/30 — Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Theatre
3/31 — Upper Darby, PA, Tower Theater
4/1 — Boston, MA, Orpheum Theater
4/2 — Morristown, NJ, Mayo PAC
6/23 — Pasadena, CA, Arroyo Seco Weekend+
6/28 — Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Theatre
6/29 — Silver Spring, MD, Fillmore
7/1 — Atlanta, GA, SunTrust Park*
7/2 — Nashville, TN, Ryman Auditorium
7/3 — Louisville, KY, Palace Theater
7/6 — Cincinnati, OH, Taft Theater
7/7 — Northfield, OH, Hard Rock Live
7/8 — Indianapolis, IN, Murat Theater
7/10 — Milwaukee, WI, Riverside Theater
7/11 — Grand Rapids, MI, 20 Monroe Live
7/13 — Detroit, MI, Comerica Park*
7/14 — Chicago, IL, Wrigley Field*
7/16 — Minneapolis, MN, The State Theater
7/18 — St. Louis, MO, Peabody Opera House
7/19 — Ames, IA, Stephens Auditorium
7/21 — Denver, CO, Coors Field*
+ = with Neil Young + Promise of the Real, Jack White and others
* = opening for Journey and Def Leppard.
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