Internationally acclaimed and multi-Grammy award-winning, singer-songwriter James Bay is set to embark on a highly anticipated tour across South Africa, bringing his soulful melodies and electrifying performances to fans in Cape Town and Joburg next March.
The UK hitmaker’s artistry blends soulful storytelling with modern musicianship. He’s been in the musical spotlight for more than a decade now, but ask James Bay if he’s satisfied with where he’s landed at this current moment in time and he’ll unabashedly tell you he’s never felt more proud than he does with his latest work.
BreakOut Events in association with Jacaranda FM
is pleased to present James Bay live in Joburg
Line-up: James Bay, opening acts are to be announced.
Date: Saturday 29th March 2025
Time: Gates open at 12 pm. The concert starts at 1 pm and ends at 8 pm.
Venue: Marks Park Sports Club in Emmarentia, Johannesburg
Address: Orange Rd, Emmarentia, Randburg, 2195
GPS Coordinates: -26.16337 | 28.00619
Ticket Prices:
Phase 1 from R895 (excluding R35 ticket service fee)
Phase 2 – R1,295 (excluding R35 ticket service fee)
VIP Admission R1,395 (excluding R35 ticket service fee)
Ticket Link:
https://breakout.howler.co.za/events/james-bay-live-in-johannesburg-f5f3 (On sale from 9 am on 30th October through Howler)
Facebook Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906025984280136/
While Bay finds himself openly expressing himself via his lyrics on his new LP, Changes All The Time, the musician says he’s beyond charged up to hit the stage with his new material. Executing in the live concert setting, as he’s come to realize at this stage in his career, he says is all about “graduating up through different levels of effortlessness.” Bay adds, “I’m trying to relax in my skin more and more onstage. You get one go at it every night live. I want to blow someone away. I want to impress them. That’s the best thing in the world.”
When onstage, he also aims to channel some of his musical heroes. Being the musical encyclopedia he is, Bay casually references not only his admiration for artists such as Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, but also his well-attuned appreciation for how they carried themselves onstage. “Aretha and Ray Charles were certainly gifted and born with something natural, but the way they harnessed those things they were born with and effortlessly over time delivered with confidence and conviction such moving performances, that’s what I’m striving for.”
He’s released a Number One album in the UK (2015’s breakout debut, Chaos and the Calm), scaled the pop charts with his mammoth single “Let It Go,” toured with The Rolling Stones, opened for Bruce Springsteen, been bowed down to by Queen’s Brian May for his guitar prowess, and this summer shared the stage at iconic venues like Madison Square Garden and Fenway Park with longtime friend and ‘Hurt Somebody’ hitmaker, Noah Kahan. But never before has Bay been more sure of himself than he is now.
