Eli Young Band tour coming to Cedar Rapids March 24
Members of the Eli Young Band are (from left) James Young, Jon Jones, Mike Eli and Chris Thompson. The country hitmakers will be performing March 24 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse arena in downtown Cedar Rapids. Physical distancing, face coverings and other pandemic protocols will be enforced. (Cal Quinn)
By Alan Sculley, Last Word Features
The Eli Young Band had big plans for 2020, only to see almost everything torpedoed by the pandemic.
“We had a busy year planned,” said Mike Eli, the group’s singer/guitarist in a mid-February phone interview. “We were doing our first European tour. We also had our first full Canadian tour where we were going to go all the way across Canada. We had played a lot of shows there and we had played a lot of shows in Europe, but we had never gone to either place and done a full-fledged tour, a shore to shore kind of thing. So we had both of things planned in 2020, and obviously, those did not work out.”