América Latina Olé

América Latina Olé

Tour by The Rolling Stones
Promotional poster for the tour
Start date	3 February 2016
End date	25 March 2016
No. of shows	14
Attendance	1.229 million
Box office	$83,894,323[1]
The Rolling Stones concert chronology

América Latina Olé^[2] was a concert tour by The Rolling Stones, which began on 3 February 2016 in Santiago and made stops in La Plata, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Lima, Bogotá, Mexico City and ended in Havana with a free show on 25 March 2016.^[3] The tour was chronicled on two video releases: The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon, which documented the final show, and Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America, a documentary following the band across the continent.

History

On 17 September 2015, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo revealed that the Rolling Stones were (at the time) in final negotiations to perform for the very first time in Cuba, at the end of March 2016 (on 20 or 21 March). The location would be Havana and the venue the Estadio Latinoamericano (Latin American Stadium), a facility with a capacity for 55,000 people. Keith Richards confirmed the negotiations with the Cubans, adding that Cuba had taken it seriously, following the opening of embassies in the United States and the Pope's (then) upcoming visit to Havana. It was also reported that the Stones' bassist Darryl Jones had influenced the decision to play in Cuba.^[4][5][6][7]

On 5 November 2015, the América Latina Olé tour was officially announced, marking the first time the Rolling Stones would tour in Latin America since their A Bigger Bang Tour in 2006.^[3] The tour would include their second ever show in Chile after their visit during the Voodoo Lounge Tour in February 1995, and their first show in São Paulo since the Bridges to Babylon Tour in April 1998. The Stones were also due to play their first ever shows in Uruguay, Peru, Colombia and Cuba.

Later in November 2015, another show was rumoured to occur also on 20 or 21 March 2016 at the Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic^[7] but this show was never confirmed. On 1 March 2016, The Stones confirmed their first ever show in Cuba due to occur on 25 March 2016, to be a free concert, their first ever in the Caribbean and the first open air concert in the country by a British rock band.^[8] The band played at, but not inside, the Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana. Dubbed the "Concert for Amity," it broke the previous record of the Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari who performed to a crowd of nearly 70,000 goers in 2012.^[9][10][11] The concert was recorded and later released as an album and concert film.

Set list

The following set list was obtained from the concert held on 3 February 2016 at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile.^[12] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

1. "Start Me Up"
2. "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
3. "Let's Spend the Night Together"
4. "Tumbling Dice"
5. "Out of Control"
6. "She's a Rainbow"
7. "Wild Horses"
8. "Paint It Black"
9. "Honky Tonk Women"
10. "You Got the Silver"
11. "Happy"
12. "Midnight Rambler"
13. "Miss You"
14. "Gimme Shelter"
15. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
16. "Sympathy for the Devil"
17. "Brown Sugar"

Encore

18. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
19. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue^[13]^[14]

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act(s)	Attendance	Revenue
3 February 2016	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional	Los Tres	62,412 / 62,412	$6,160,725
7 February 2016	La Plata[a]	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata	Ciro y los Persas La Beriso	155,184 / 155,184	$17,637,161
10 February 2016
13 February 2016
16 February 2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	Estadio Centenario	Boomerang	61,445 / 61,445	$7,596,103
20 February 2016	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Estádio do Maracanã	Ultraje a Rigor Dr Pheabes	60,051 / 60,051	$5,588,851
24 February 2016	São Paulo		Estádio do Morumbi	Titãs	135,656 / 135,656	$12,255,726
27 February 2016
2 March 2016	Porto Alegre		Estádio Beira-Rio	Cachorro Grande Dr Pheabes	49,073 / 49,073	$6,441,579
6 March 2016	Lima	Peru	Estadio Monumental	Frágil & Andrés Dulude	47,119 / 47,119	$8,095,011
10 March 2016	Bogotá	Colombia	Estadio El Campín	Diamante Eléctrico	40,785 / 40,785	$6,905,869
14 March 2016	Mexico City	Mexico	Foro Sol	Little Jesus	117,567 / 117,567	$13,213,298
17 March 2016
25 March 2016	Havana	Cuba	Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana	—	500,000[15][16]	Free
Total					1,229,292 / 1,229,292 (100%)	$90.9 million[1]

Notes

1. Billed as Buenos Aires in promotional material.

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica, percussion
• Keith Richards – rhythm guitars, backing vocals
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Ronnie Wood – lead guitars

Additional musicians

• Sasha Allen – backing vocals, duet with Jagger on "Gimme Shelter"
• Matt Clifford – introduction voice, keyboards, percussion, French horn
• Karl Denson – saxophone
• Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion
• Darryl Jones – bass guitar
• Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals
• Tim Ries – saxophone, keyboards

See also

• The Rolling Stones concerts

References

1. "2016 Year End Top 100 Worldwide Tours" (PDF). Pollstar. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
2. "Rolling Stones América Latina Olé stadium tour! | the Rolling Stones". www.rollingstones.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
3. Waddell, Ray (5 November 2015). "Rolling Stones Announce 2016 Latin American Tour". Billboard magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
4. Ruiz, Julián (17 September 2015). "Los Rolling [Stones] quieren actuar en Cuba". El Mundo. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
5. "Rolling Stones may perform in Cuba in 2016". cuba-solidarity.org.uk. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
6. Cantor-Navas, Judy (6 October 2015). "Mick Jagger Visits Havana -- Are The Rolling Stones Playing Cuba?". Billboard magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
7. "The Rolling Stones Latin America Olé Tour 2016". iorr.org. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
8. "The Rolling Stones announce free concert in Cuba!". rollingstones.com. 1 March 2016. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
9. "Concerto di Zucchero a L'Avana" (in Italian). Foto Image. 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
10. Greta C (10 December 2012). "Zucchero, un italiano a Cuba che fa ballare e divertire L'Avana". Melodicamente (in Italian). Retrieved 5 March 2016.
11. "The Rolling Stones to Play Free Concert in Cuba (by Jacob Bryant)". Variety. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
12. "Las canciones y frases que dejó el segundo concierto de los Rolling Stones en Chile" [The songs and phrases left behind by the Rolling Stones' second concert in Chile]. Emol (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
13. "Current Boxscore (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
14. "Current Boxscore (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Lima, Bogota, Porto Alegre)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016.
15. Romano, Nick (26 March 2016). "The Rolling Stones: Cuba concert features Jumpin' Jack Flash". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
16. "500,000 Estimated at Rolling Stones Cuba Concert". VoA News. 26 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017.

External links

• Official website