Ray LaMontagne returns to Milwaukee for an 8 p.m. show at the Riverside on Tuesday, April 21.
Ohio songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield opens.
The Maine singer and songwriter's latest disc, "Gossip in the Grain," broke into the Billboard Top 200 albums chart at a whopping No. 3.
The Milwaukee date comes in the second half of a month-long tour that starts April 2 in New Jersey and closes on April 30 in Miami.
Fans have the opportunity to buy front row seats and support charity through Tickets-for-Charity. A portion of each package purchased through its Web site benefit The National Children's Cancer Society, while purchasers can donate further proceeds to a wide variety of other charities.
For tickets benefiting The National Children's Cancer Society, please visit www.Tickets-for-Charity.com or call (866) 567-4576.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 6 at noon at the Riverside and Pabst Theater box offices and are $32.50 for reserved seats.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
