Rock Meets Classic, the annual European tour featuring classic rock artists backed by a band and full orchestra, will feature Europe vocalist Joey Tempest, former Kansas frontman Steve Walsh, The Sweet members Andy Scott and Peter Lincoln, Midge Ure of Ultravox fame, German metal queen Doro, Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham and Ricky Warwick, and former Nazareth frontman Dan McCafferty for their 2016 European tour. The complete tour schedule is as follows:

March
30 - Wurzburg, Germany - s. Oliver Arena    
31 - Kempten, Germany - BigBox    

April
1 - Passau, Germany - Dreiländerhalle    
2 - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle    
3 - Stuttgart, Germany - Porsche Arena    
5 - Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle    
6 - Dusseldorf, Germany - Mitsubishi Electric Halle    
8 - Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom    
9 - Halle/Westfalen, Germany - Gerry Weber Stadion    
10 - Magdeburg, Germany - GETEC Arena    
12 - Bern, Switzerland - Bern Expo Halle 4    
13 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion
14 - Ingolstadt, Germany - Saturn Arena    
15 - Neu-Ulm, Germany - Ratiopharm Arena    
16 - Regensburg, Germany - Donau-Arena    
17 - Nuremberg, Germany - Frankenhalle

Rock Meets Classic features the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague and The Mat Sinner Band, the latter including Primal Fear members Mat Sinner, Alex Beyrodt (guitars) and Tom Naumann (guitars), and also featuring Voodoo Circle's Jimmy Kresic (keyboards), Veronika Lukešová, drums, Tiffany Kirkland (backing vocals), Kolinda Brozovic (backing vocals), Gabriela Gunčíková (backing vocals) and Sascha Krebs (backing vocals).

Last summer Rock Meets Classic performed two special festival shows in Germany at Rock Of Ages and the Wacken Open Air on July 31st and August 1st respectively.

Featured artists for these two exclusive shows included Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow), Michael Kiske (Unisonic, ex-Helloween), Marc Storace (Krokus) and Jennifer Haben (Beyond The Black).

Check out footage of Kiske performing the Helloween classic "I Want Out" at Wacken Open Air 2015 below:

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