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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Neil Diamond is set to perform a
free show at New York City's The Bitter End Wednesday night
as part of the MySpace Music "Secret Shows" series.
The singer-songwriter's new album, "Home Before Dark," his
second collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, was released
Tuesday via Columbia Records.
Diamond kicks off a 37-date North American tour July 19
in St. Paul, Minn.
Diamond told Billboard.com in April of his plans for the
coming dates, "I always like to include songs I haven't done in
the show in a while. We just took out one of the songs we'd
been using in the show as part of the rehearsals and replaced
it with something that was better suited and I had definitely
wanted to do but couldn't find a place for."
The North American leg of Diamond's trek follows a European
tour that begins May 24 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
MySpace Music has organized more than 100 Secret Shows
since the franchise launched in February 2006. Rilo Kiley,
Franz Ferdinand, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ray LaMontagne are
among the artists who have performed in cities worldwide.
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