Aventura Reunion In NYC was a month-long residence by music group Aventura that took place at United Palace in New York City.[1][2] The concerts started on February 4, 2016, and ended on February 28, 2016. The concerts served as a reunon for the band following their break up on 2011 to pursue the individual musical careers. Initually only 4 shows were announced, however more shows were announced due the high demand.[3]
Billed as their last shows together, the residence was a commercial success with all the concerts sold out. The Concerts received positive reviews by fans, with critics praising the sound quality on the venue and the band's stage presence.
Background
In April 2009, Aventura released their fifth and last studio album The Last (2009) and become the best-selling Latin album of the United States of 2009 and 2010 and promote the record with The Last Tour (2009–11).[4] The group promised to comeback in 2013, however this did not happen. Following that, the band split to individually focus their musical career. The lead singer Romeo Santos released Formula Vol. 1 (2011) and Formula Vol. 2 (2014) with great success. In July 2014, The group reunited to perform at Romeo Santos's concert at New York's Yankee Stadium.[5]
On December 2, 2015, it was revealed the dates of a reunion concerts at the United Palace. According to the press release, this shows would be their last concerts together.[6]
Overview
Stage and Sound
All the concerts were performed at the United Palace in New York City. The venue was selected due the amount of dominican population around the location of the venue, Washington Heights The audio spectrum insade the venue consisted on three K1-SB subs flown over 10 K2 enclosures per side, supplemented by SB28 subs ground-stacked below, plus X8 coaxials as frontfills and ARCS II enclosures as outfills, deployed an L-Acoustics system.[7] The sistem helped the sound insade the venue to be focus on the bands instruments depite the screaming fans.
Reception
Critical Reception
The residency receive positive review by fans a critics alike. Isabela Herrera from Remezcla gave a positive review praising the band presence on stage and charisma on a article titled "Aventura Reunites and Keeps the Spirit of the Heights Alive, Even in the Age of Gentrification".[8] In other had, Krystyna Chavez from Billboard gave a 4.5 out 5 and stated on her review that the concert were and parranda from start to finish and prased the setlist writing "The evening was a reminder of why we fell in love with Aventura in the first place".[9]
Tour dates
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets, and grossing revenue
