DOORS – 7PM

RUSSELL DICKERSON – 7:30PM

DARIUS RUCKER – 8:45PM

CURFEW – 11PM

We’re delighted to announce that Darius Rucker, who first gained fame as Hootie & The Blowfish lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, will be performing live at The Albert Hall! Tickets go on sale from 9am Friday 2nd March!

Darius Carlos Rucker is an American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band’s songs with the other three members.

He released a solo R&B album, Back to Then, in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but did not chart any singles from it. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Nashville as a country music singer, releasing the album, Larn to Live that year. Its first single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”, made him the first black artist to reach number one on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983. (Ray Charles hit number one in March 1985 in a duet with Willie Nelson with “Seven Spanish Angels”). In 2009, he became the first black American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and only the second black person to win any award from the association.