SAVATAGE / JON OLIVA'S PAIN frontman and legendary Mountain King, JON OLIVA, has announced the initial details for his upcoming Storytellers Tour:

"Show dates will fall between November 28th - December 16th. We will start booking the first leg in Florida, up the east coast and over to Chicago area, back down into Texas and then back to Florida. If all goes well we will move further west after the new year.

Thanks again for all the amazing support for the new CD and your enthusiasm for the Storytellers Tour. Working on new material for next JOP cd as well. Cheers!"



The schedule is as follows:

December

1 - Lincoln Theatre - Raleigh, North Carolina4 - Dingbatz - Clifton, New Jersey6 - Rex Theatre - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania8 - Mojoes - Joliet, Illinois14 - State Theatre - Tampa, Florida

Oliva has posted the following message regarding the Tampa show:

"This show will be a very, very special finale to this once in a lifetime tour. We are going to bring everything including the kitchen sink to our home town Tampa Bay crowd! You won't want to miss this. Only 700 tickets available.

A limited number of VIP packages will be offered for this show. More details coming soon."



More than thirty years after the start of his career with Savatage, and successive projects/bands like TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA and Jon Oliva's Pain, now legendary songwriter and performer Jon Oliva released his first ever solo album, titled Raise The Curtain. The album was released simply under the banner OLIVA and you can expect a mixture of Jon Oliva’s early influences and the material he wrote and recorded throughout his whole artistic career.

Raise The Curtain tracklisting:

'Raise The Curtain'

'Soul Chaser'

'Ten Years'

'Father Time'

'I Know'

'Big Brother'

'Armageddon'

'Soldier'

'Stalker'

'The Witch'

'Can’t Get Away'

'The Truth' (bonus track)

BW&BK;'s new interview with Oliva about his solo album, Raise The Curtain can be found at this location.

Check out the first taste of the album, written by Jon Oliva and his late brother/Savatage guitarist Criss Oliva, via the 'Father Time' lyric video below: