• AEG PRESALE OPENS THURSDAY 17 JULY, 10AM.
• GENERAL BOOKING OPENS FRIDAY 18 JULY, 10AM.

Rick Beato, the American musician, educator and YouTube personality, brings his live show back to London this autumn! Two hours of stories, music knowledge, and celebration of rock and roll including a live exclusive ‘What Makes This Song Great’, as well as an audience Q&A session.

Rick Beato currently has over 3 million subscribers on YouTube. The videos on his ‘Everything Music’ channel regularly receive over a million views and have had over 500 million views. Or, to put it another way, people have been listening to Rick talk about music for the equivalent of 6,500 years to date.

Born into a large family in Fairport, NY, he began playing guitar at the age of 13 when a broken ankle left him off his feet in the middle of a Rochester summer. He would go on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Ithaca College and then earn a master’s degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1987.

He has worked as a musician, college professor, songwriter, and record producer. In his work on YouTube he’s has interviewed Sting, Pat Metheny, Brian May, Eric Johnson, Ron Carter, Victor Wooten, John Scofield, Larry Carlton, Vinnnie Colaiuta, Bernard Purdie, and Peter Frampton among others.

Doors 6pm. Stage times to be announced.