{"id":8441,"date":"2025-09-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:57:26","slug":"steve-litman-presents-rick-wakeman-son-featuring-special-guest-oliver-wakeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/steve-litman-presents-rick-wakeman-son-featuring-special-guest-oliver-wakeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Litman Presents RICK WAKEMAN & SON Featuring Special Guest Oliver Wakeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 WAKEMAN & SON\u00a0<\/strong>perform live in concert at\u00a0<\/strong>The Sheldon on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale September 19 at 10 a.m. online at\u00a0Metrotix.com<\/a>\u00a0by calling MetroTix at 314-534-1111. Tickets are also available one hour before show time at The Sheldon box office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although they have occasionally performed together in the past, this will be the first opportunity to see Rick and Oliver Wakeman in their brand new WAKEMAN &<\/strong> SON<\/strong> show. Both former keyboard players with YES and the Strawbs, as well as being highly successful, award-winning musicians in their own right, WAKEMAN & SON<\/strong> will be performing music which ranges from their joint musical heritage to their latest recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already one of the most in-demand session players of his generation before joining YES, after leaving the band, Rick became renowned for his prog rock extravaganzas, such as Journey To The Centre Of The Earth<\/em> and The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The<\/em> Knights Of The Round Table<\/em>, as well his numerous tours with both his band, the English Rock Ensemble, and as a solo pianist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver\u2019s solo career encompasses several critically acclaimed solo albums, collaborations with highly regarded musicians like Clive Nolan (Pendragon\/Arena), Steve Howe (YES\/Asia) and Gordon Giltrap, a series of poetry CD\u2019s which featured Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi, and a variety of art and music projects with fantasy artist Rodney Matthews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While father and son have performed on the same stage in the past \u2013 most notably, at a performance of The Myths And Legends of King Arthur\u2026<\/em> at London\u2019s O2 Arena, they have never toured together before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always an honour for me to share the stage with one of my wonderful children,\u201d says Rick, \u201cand for the first time, it\u2019s a thrill to be actually doing a tour with my eldest son Oliver. I know it will be very special \u00ad\u2013 especially if, on the odd occasion, he buys me dinner!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t miss this unique opportunity to see two legendary keyboard players in concert together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located at 3648 Washington Boulevard in the heart of the Grand Center Arts District, The Sheldon Concert Hall provides a wide range of music, visual arts and educational programs of the highest quality, diversity and educational impact, hosting more than 350 events each year. For more information, visit\u00a0www.thesheldon.org<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.stevelitmanpresents.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 WAKEMAN & SON\u00a0perform live in concert at\u00a0The Sheldon on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale September 19 at 10 a.m. online at\u00a0Metrotix.com\u00a0by calling MetroTix at 314-534-1111. Tickets are also available one hour before show time at The Sheldon box office. Although they have occasionally performed together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,1152,276,7],"tags":[17,12,977,58,147,19,1249],"class_list":["post-8441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","category-blog","category-events","category-family","category-inside","tag-around-town-2","tag-blog-2","tag-concerts","tag-events","tag-family","tag-inside-fun","tag-the-sheldon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wakeman-1920x1005-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-2c9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}