Embrace Your Light Tour

Embrace Your Light Tour
Tour by Santana
Start dateMay 3, 2005 (2005-05-03)
End dateOctober 16, 2005 (2005-10-16)
Legs2
No. of shows46
Box office$10.333 million ($16.12 million in 2023 dollars)
Santana concert chronology

The Embrace Your Light Tour was the thirty-fourth concert tour of North America by Santana in 2005.

Tour band

  • Andy Vargas – lead vocals
  • Carlos Santana – lead guitar, percussion, vocals
  • Tommy Anthony – rhythm guitar
  • Chester D. Thompson – keyboards, vocals
  • Salvador Santana – keyboards
  • Benny Rietveld – bass guitar
  • Dennis Chambers – drums
  • William Ortiz – trumpet
  • Jeff Cresman – trombone
  • Bobby Allende – percussion, vocals
  • Karl Perazzo – timbales, percussion, vocals
  • Raul Rekow – congas, bongos, percussion, vocals (since August 31)

Set list

An average set list of this tour was as follows:[1]

  1. "Jin-go-lo-ba" (Babatunde Olatunji)
  2. "Hermes" (Carlos Santana, S. Jurad)
  3. "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquín Rodrigo)
  4. "I Am Somebody" (William Adams, Jr., George Pajon)
  5. "El Fuego" (Santana, Jean Shepherd, Richard Shepherd)
  6. "Maria Maria" (Santana, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow, Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis)
  7. "Foo Foo" (Yvon André, Roger Eugène, Yves Joseph, Hermann Nau, Claude Jean)
  8. "Intimo"
  9. "Brown Skin Girl" (Jamie Houston)
  10. "Sun Ra"
  11. "Hey Boogie Woman" (Bill Bartlett)
  12. "Spiritual" (John Coltrane)
  13. "(Da Le) Yaleo" (Santana, Shakara Mutela, Christian Polloni)
  14. "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" (Henry Garza, Ringo Garza, Joey Garza)
  15. "Apache" (Jerry Lordan)
  16. "Smooth" (Itaal Shur, Rob Thomas)
  17. "Dame Tu Amor" (Abraham Quintanilla, Ricky Vela, Richard Brooks)
  18. "Corazón Espinado" (Fher Olvera)
  19. "Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry)
Encore
  2. "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green)
  3. "Gypsy Queen" (Gábor Szabó)
  4. "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente)
  5. "A Love Supreme" (John Coltrane)

Tour dates

Leg 1 (May 3 – July 3, 2005)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue[2]
Date
(2005) 		City Country Venue
May 3 Kahului United States Maui Arts & Cultural Center
May 21 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
May 30 Tampa United States Ford Amphitheatre
June 1 Miami American Airlines Arena
June 3 Atlanta Chastain Park Amphitheater
June 4
June 5 Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 7 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 8 Philadelphia Penn's Landing
June 11 Atlantic City Borgata Event Center
June 12
June 14 Holmdel Township PNC Bank Arts Center
June 15 New York City Madison Square Garden
June 17 Mansfield Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
June 19 Wallingford careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre
June 21 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
June 22 Quebec City Colisée Pepsi
June 24 Toronto Molson Amphitheatre
June 25 Clarkston United States Pine Knob Music Theatre
June 26 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
June 29 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center
July 1 Noblesville Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 2[a] Chicago Grant Park
July 3[b] Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater

Leg 2 (September 15 – October 16, 2005)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(2005) 		City Country Venue
September 15 San Jose United States HP Pavilion
September 16 Sacramento ARCO Arena
September 17 Reno Reno Events Center
September 19 Portland Rose Garden
September 20 Everett Everett Events Center
September 21 Vancouver Canada General Motors Place
September 23 Edmonton Rexall Place
September 24 Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome
September 27 Morrison United States Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 28
September 30 Grand Prairie Nokia Live
October 1
October 2 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
October 4 Corpus Christi American Bank Center Arena
October 5 Hidalgo Dodge Arena
October 6 San Antonio SBC Center
October 8 El Paso Don Haskins Center
October 9 Albuquerque ABQ Journal Pavilion
October 11 Tucson Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater
October 12 Chula Vista Coors Amphitheatre
October 14 Carson Home Depot Center
October 16 Concord Chronicle Pavilion

Box office score data

List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(2005) 		City Venue Attendance Gross Ref(s)
May 21 Montreal, Canada Bell Centre 8,000 / 9,000 $445,704 [3]
May 30 Tampa, United States Ford Amphitheatre 14,134 / 19,440 $491,418 [4]
June 1 Miami, United States American Airlines Arena 9,761 / 11,982 $498,659 [4]
June 4 Atlanta, United States Chastain Park Amphitheater 6,700 / 6,700 $536,135 [5]
June 11 Atlantic City, United States Borgata Event Center 4,432 / 4,604 $446,722 [6]
June 12 [6]
June 14 Holmdel Township, United States PNC Bank Arts Center 7,276 / 16,988 $346,075 [6]
June 15 New York City, United States Madison Square Garden 12,730 / 14,114 $768,327 [6]
June 17 Mansfield, United States Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts 10,030 / 19,900 $438,369 [6]
June 21 Montreal, Canada Bell Centre 8,451 / 9,000 $484,824 [7]
June 22 Quebec City, Canada Colisée Pepsi 8,504 / 9,000 $465,823 [7]
June 25 Clarkston, United States Pine Knob Music Theatre 15,274 / 15,274 $445,185 [8]
September 15 San Jose, United States HP Pavilion 8,718 / 12,900 $476,867 [9]
September 16 Sacramento, United States ARCO Arena 8,666 / 9,500 $445,303 [10]
September 17 Reno, United States Reno Events Center 6,491 / 6,491 $478,021 [10]
September 27 Morrison, United States Red Rocks Amphitheatre 16,083 / 18,000 $979,577 [11]
September 28 [11]
September 30 Grand Prairie, United States Nokia Live 6,460 / 7,068 $452,328 [10]
October 1 [10]
October 2 The Woodlands, United States Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 11,110 / 15,715 $405,828 [12]
October 4 Corpus Christi, United States American Bank Center Arena 7,809 / 7,809 $427,926 [12]
October 5 Hidalgo, United States Dodge Arena 5,451 / 5,451 $484,065 [10]
October 8 El Paso, United States Don Haskins Center 8,023 / 8,023 $396,820 [13]
October 16 Concord, United States Chronicle Pavilion 10,758 / 12,500 $419,191 [13]
TOTAL 194,861 / 239,459 (81%) $10,333,167

Notes

  1. ^ The concert on July 2 was a part of Taste of Chicago.
  2. ^ The concert on July 3 was a part of Summerfest.

References

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  2. ^ "Santana Signs On For Oscars, Summer Tour". Billboard. February 10, 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
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  13. ^ a b "Billboard Boxscore". Billboard. November 12, 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2020.