THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
69 LOVE SONGS 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
MEMORIAL HALL | MAY 19 & 20, 2025
Tickets On Sale Friday, November 1 at 10am
Cincinnati, OH (10/29/2024) – In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, The Magnetic Fields will bring their 69 Love Songs Anniversary Tour to Cincinnati, OH for a two-night performance at Memorial Hall on May 19 and 20. For the first time in over two decades, the band will perform their 69 Love Songs album in its entirety over the course of two nights — a 3-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band.
Tickets to the Longworth-Anderson Series concert go on sale to the public beginning at 10am on Friday, November 1 at MemorialHallOTR.com, or charge by phone at 513-977-8838.
Written and recorded entirely by Stephin Merritt, 69 Love Songs garnered universal acclaim at its 1999 release, landing on best of year-end lists in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, SPIN, LA Times and The Washington Post, and received notable praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum and much more.
The Magnetic Fields are the brainchild of Merritt, who also releases albums as the 6ths, the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. With the Magnetic Fields, he has written, produced, and recorded 12 albums to date. He composed original music and lyrics for three music theater pieces directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, and in 2008, mounted an Off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, for which he won an Obie Award. Merritt composed the score for the Academy Award–nominated film Pieces of April and for the independent film Eban and Charley. Merritt’s song “The Book of Love” was performed by Peter Gabriel and appears in the film Shall We Dance, as well as in numerous other films and TV shows. Merritt has composed incidental music for the HarperCollins’ audio books of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.
The Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs as it was originally performed in the early 2000’s: In full order over 2 nights, with one half of the triple-disc album performed each night. Featuring multiple singers, the band delivers signature orchestral-pop arrangements with cello, ukelele, guitars and keyboards.
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ABOUT THE LONGWORTH-ANDERSON SERIES
Launched in early 2017 by the Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society, the Longworth-Anderson Series (LAS) features GRAMMY Award-winning and other nationally recognized performers and bands at beautiful, intimate Memorial Hall. This annual series showcases artists from a variety of contemporary music genres including Americana, bluegrass, blues, country, folk, gospel, hip hop, indie rock, jazz, pop, R&B, reggae, soul, and world music. Events that are part of the series provide an entire evening of entertainment including pre-concert receptions with live local music, light bites, and beer & wine tastings from popular regional restaurants, craft beer brewers, and wine distributors.
