Yes cancel tour after death of Steve Howe's son

[ABlairican Pie]

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Due to the tragic, unexpected death of guitarist Steve Howe's beloved younger son Virgil, progressive rockers YES have canceled the remaining dates of their "Yestival" tour.

Ticket refunds for the affected tour dates (in Moorhead, Cedar Rapids, London, Rochester, Boston and Huntington) will be available at point of purchase.

The YES members — Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood — want to thank all their fans for their support and understanding at this time.

Howe and his family ask for their privacy to be respected.

Virgil's death comes just two months before the scheduled arrival of "Nexus", a new instrumental album on which he collaborated with Steve. The effort is scheduled to be released on November 17 via InsideOut.

"I've done a wealth of different things but I haven't done anything like this before," Steve told Prog magazine a few weeks ago. "I feel it's steering me in a different direction. It's a full-on collaborative album, not a duet. It's been refreshing to work with Virgil and we've pulled this beautiful album together. Although it's got shades of mellow music, it doesn't sit still. It moves across electronic music and my guitars. This is an opportunity to discover what Virgil's been doing on the side of his drumming with LITTLE BARRIE. He's got a hard rock and funk side but this has totally different shades."

Founded in 1968 by the late and much-missed Chris Squire and Jon Anderson, Grammy Award-winning recording artist YES has created some of the most important and influential music in rock history, including iconic pieces such as "Roundabout", "Close To The Edge", "I've Seen All Good People", "Starship Trooper" and countless others. The band's albums, including "Fragile", "Close To The Edge", "Tales From Topographic Oceans", "Relayer", "Going For The One" and "90125", have been certified multi-platinum, double-platinum, platinum, and more by the RIAA, selling over fifty million records during the band's long and successful career that has so far spanned six decades.

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[MA]

Will anything be postponed or refunded?

[Babalu]

A few years ago I saw Yes and Asia at a theater in the round. Steve Howe played with both bands. He took more of a back seat with Asia but with Yes he was out front and was amazing. We were sitting in the second row and whenever Steve came around to us he would step off the stage and come right up to us and play. I thought that was very nice of him. There were three women sitting in front of us that had security passes around their necks. About three quarters of the way through the show Steve said that this was a special show for him because his daughter was there. Then I realized why he kept coming over to us to play.

[Dude111]

Very sad