Tony Bennett to Perform May 8 at the Fox Theatre

The always-genial, always-swinging pop and jazz singer Tony Bennett is returning to St. Louis for a concert on Friday, May 8, 2009 at the Fox Theatre.

Tickets for Bennett's concert will be priced from $55 to $85, and will go on sale at 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 21 via MetroTix and the Fox box office.

The show is being presented by local PBS affiliate KETC (Channel 9), and according to a commenter on this post at Post-Dispatch music critic Kevin Johnson's blog The Blender, tickets for the Bennett concert will be available as premiums for an upcoming pledge drive beginning at 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, November 13, when the station is scheduled to rebroadcast the program “Tony Bennett Duets: The Making of An American Classic."