Music legends Elton John and Billy Joel are coming to North Little Rock next month on their Face 2 Face tour.

The dual appearance of the piano playing greats will mark the 10th anniversary concert at Verizon Arena (formerly Alltel Arena).

Tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10:00 for the November 28th concert.

John and Joel perform at 7:30 p.m. and ticket prices are $53.25, $98.75, and $178.75. Tickets are available at the Verizon Arena Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, charge by phone at 800-745-3000 or online at ticketmaster or livenation. There will be a limit of 8 tickets per customer.

Since kicking off the 2009 Face 2 Face tour in March, the duo have performed over 40 sold out concerts in front of nearly three-quarters of a million people.

Elton and Billy open the concert with a series of duets, playing twin pianos and trading vocals. Each artist then performs a set with his own band. The grand finale brings the two superstars and their supporting musicians back together for a closing encore. This includes some of both Elton and Billy’s greatest hits along with an unpredictable selection of rock and roll classics.

“I love touring with Billy. I have the greatest respect for him and we are such good friends,” Elton said.

“The great thing about performing with Elton is that he is such a good piano player and that makes me have to dig deep to keep up with him, not to mention I’ve got the best seat in the house-only piano away from Elton John!” said Billy.

“We are really excited to have Elton John here in our building again and have Billy Joel for the first time,” said Verizon Arena General Manager Michael Marion. “This is a great way for the citizens of Arkansas to help us celebrate 10 years of entertainment at Verizon Arena”.

Concert dates announced this year for the Face 2 Face tour immediately sold out and included Boston’s Gillette Stadium and two concerts each at Toronto’s Air Canada Center, Seattle’s Key Arena, Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Philadelphia’s Citizen Bank Ballpark – in addition to concerts in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Nashville, St. Paul and Tampa.

Other concert dates announced for the Fall 2009 segment of the Face 2 Face tour include Portland, Oakland, San Jose and Salt Lake City.

Elton and Billy played the first date of their co-headlining Face 2 Face tour on July 8, 1994 at the 62,000-capacity Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. That Veterans Stadium concert began a run of 21 sold-out performances in 13 cities and established a winning formula for all future Face 2 Face concerts.

Perhaps the highpoint of that 1994 maiden voyage was the series of five concerts at 75,000-vapacity Giants Stadium in New Jersey. In his review of the July 22 performance, Neil Strauss of the New York Times wrote:  “Musically, the two gifted, idiosyncratic artists exist in the nether world between pop and rock, where Broadway show tunes, classical compositions, ragtime, gospel ad rock-n-roll mingle freely.”

The 1994 Face 2 Face Tour played its final concert August 20 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. It had become one of the ten biggest US tours of all time. In March and April 1995, the Face 2 Face Tour returned for twelve encore performances at some of the country’s largest stadiums.

Three years later, the tour that conquered North America took Europe, Japan and Australia by storm with a total of 30 performances.

Elton and Billy last toured together in 2003 with 24 sellouts. There could be no doubt that Face 2 Face starring Elton and Billy was according to Billboard, “the most successful touring package of all time."

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