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Florence and the Machine Announce North American Headline Tour in Support of ‘Dance Fever’

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Florence and the Machine will return to the road later this year to bring their fifth studio album Dance Fever to North America on a headlining tour. The album will arrive on May 13 and be celebrated with two special shows in Los Angeles and New York in April and May, respectively, but the extended leg of the tour will begin in September.

The band will open with a show at Montreal’s Place Bell on Sept. 2 and extend through the fall, wrapping with a finale at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Oct. 14. In between, they will make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Boston, New York, Orlando, Austin, Denver, Portland, San Diego, and more.

General on-sale for the tour begins Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. For every ticket sold, one dollar will be put toward the charity Choose Love to aid refugees and displaced peoples.

Joining Florence and the Machine on select dates for the tour are Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg.

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April 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Theatre May 6 – New York, NY @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center Sept. 2 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell Sept. 3 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage Sept. 7 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Sept. 8 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center Sept. 10 – Clarkson, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre Sept. 12 – Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Area Sept. 14 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden Sept. 16 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden Sept. 20 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater Sept. 21 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Sept. 23 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center Sept. 24 – Miami, FL @ FTX Arena Sept. 27 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center Sept. 28 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Oct. 1 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena Oct. 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena Oct. 6 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena Oct. 7 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds Oct. 9 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre Oct. 12 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre Oct. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

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Florence + the Machine Soldier Through Rain and Power Outages to Close Out ‘Dance Fever’ Tour at Hollywood Bowl: Concert Review

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About 20 minutes past Florence + the Machine ‘s slated start time for their headlining set at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, most of the venue was still pitch black from a venue-wide power outage.

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Before the frenzied final drop of “Dog Days,” Welch took a few minutes to welcome the crowd to the final stop of her U.S. “Dance Fever” tour, acknowledging that the power outage had almost caused the cancelation of the show before cracking some lighthearted self-referential jokes about her shows.

“To anyone out there who may have just been brought along, and you’re wondering: ‘What the fuck is this? Is this a show, or is it a cult? Is it a haunted house experience, or is it a British pagan dance ritual?,'” she joked before imploring the audience to put their phones away, “give in” to the music and dance the night away with her.

Upon her return to the stage, she chuckled a sly “Whoops!” to rapturous applause.

Later in the set, she ran even higher up the bleachers during “Choreomania” as the rain poured down even harder. Standing on a platform with adoring fans all around her, Welch raised her hands in time with the song’s big drop in a picture-perfect moment before running down back to the stage to continue her set.

But even without running-into-the-crowd moments, Welch remains a kinetic performer, with movements are so visceral and theatrical that it’s difficult to look away. And during the slower songs like “June,” she explained the stories and inspiration behind them in an equally immersive way.

Closing out the night with the disco-pop anthem “My Love” before coming back out to do an encore that included “Never Let Me Go” and “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up),” Welch showed the Hollywood Bowl that music and determination (and a little help from technology) can overcome a power shortage and a rain storm.

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Florence + The Machine to Embark on North American Leg of 2022 Dance Fever Tour

Japanese Breakfast, King Princess, Arlo Parks and more will support the band during various dates of the tour.

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Florence + The Machine is a touring machine. Following a slew of singles from their upcoming album  Dance Fever , the indie rock band announced Monday (March 28) that they will be hitting the road in North America this year before heading out to Europe.

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“This is going to be fun,” frontwoman Florence Welch wrote on Instagram. “Go grab those Gunne sax my beautiful ghosts.”

The news follows an earlier announcement that Welch and her group would be joined by Willie J Healey and Aziya for performances in venues across Europe. Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, Wet Leg, King Princess, Japanese Breakfast and Yves Tumor will open for the band on select dates of the newly-shared North American leg, which kicks off September 2 in Montreal.

Florence + The Machine Reveals 'Fairytale' Fifth Album 'Dance Fever': See the Artwork

Florence + The Machine’s latest era kicked off in February when they dropped “ King ,” the haunting lead single off Dance Fever  that was accompanied by a supernatural, female cult-led music video. Since then, Florence has unveiled two more singles and music videos (all of which have been directed by Autumn de Wilde): “ Heaven is Here ” and “ My Love .”

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Inspired by Renaissance-era imagery,  Dance Fever drops May 29 and will be preceded by two special sold out shows in Los Angeles on April 29 and in New York on May 6, according to a press release.

“Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death,” the release reads. “ Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.”

Check out Florence + the Machine’s North American tour dates in Welch’s announcement below.

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Florence + the Machine Kick Off “Dance Fever Tour”: Video + Setlist

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Florence + the Machine took the stage at O2 City Hall in Newcastle, UK on Friday night for their first full-band performance in three years. The concert marked the launch of the band’s expansive “Dance Fever Tour” in support of their upcoming album of the same name . As such, the 18-song setlist featured the debut four new songs: lead single “King,” “Heaven is Here,” “Free,” and “Girls Against God,” as well as the full band debut of “My Love.” 

Elsewhere on the setlist, Florence dusted off “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up),” “What the Water Gave Me,” and “Spectrum” for the first time in a half a decade, and performed a new version of “Never Let Me Go.” Florence Welch was also forced to restart “What Kind of Man” after forgetting the lyrics, and relied on the front row of the crowd to help her out.

Watch fan-captured footage of Florence + the Machine’s opening night performance and see the full setlist below.

Dance Fever is due out on May 13th. The North American leg of the tour takes place in the fall, and features a rotating cast of opening acts including Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg. Get tickets here .

entire florence and the machine crowd singing never let me go genuinely brought me to tears pic.twitter.com/VuWPGjjROq — liv 🔺 (@Liv_October) April 16, 2022

Setlist: Shake It Out King (Live debut) What Kind of Man Kiss With a Fist Free (Live debut) Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (First time since 2017) Big God What the Water Gave Me (First time since 2017) Girls Against God (Live debut) June (Acoustic) Hunger Ship to Wreck Never Let Me Go (New version) Heaven Is Here (Live debut) My Love (Full band debut) Dog Days Are Over

Encore: Cosmic Love Spectrum (First time since 2016)

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Dance Fever

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May 13, 2022

Just before the pandemic, Florence Welch read about choreomania, the medieval European “dancing plague,” wherein hordes of people would flail and twitch until they reached exhaustion, injury, or death. Welch became obsessed with the concept. Entering her mid-30s, nearly 15 years into a career that began when she drunkenly sang to her future manager in a club bathroom, she wanted to prod at her relationship to performance. When she started releasing records, her stadium-shaking voice and songs that crescendoed to catharsis lifted her into the pop charts alongside Adele and Bruno Mars . Four albums in, though, Florence and the Machine is an institution, and Florence Welch, the person, seemed rattled by how much she relied on it. She conceived her fifth album, Dance Fever , as a “‘be careful for what you wish for’ fable,” she told the New York Times ; as she read more about the dancing that spread like sickness, she thought about what it would be like to give up performing altogether. And then, a week after she started making the songs that would become Dance Fever alongside Jack Antonoff , lockdown hit.

From those uncanny origins, the new album arrives as a sweeping, grandiose statement, no less outsized than Welch’s past releases but more internal and lyrically cohesive. The songs concern devils and angels and life and death, but Dance Fever is more fascinating as a self-interrogation—these are Welch’s most personal lyrics, and among her most poignant. “Every song I wrote became an escape rope tied around my neck to pull me up to heaven,” she rasps at the end of “Heaven Is Here,” and that horror at her own compulsions reverberates throughout the album. On Dance Fever , Welch stays trapped indoors, sobbing into bowls of cereal at midnight, trying to comfort herself with the crumbs of her own image. She built her public persona by beaming the grandest, fiercest emotions out to a crowd; left alone, she turns that intensity inward.

Unlike another Antonoff-produced pandemic reverie, Lorde ’s Solar Power , Welch struggles against the wisdom she seeks to impart; we hear her wrestling with the knowledge she’s acquired, not merely delivering it. She sees herself as a projection, not a person, and she’s terrified by her impulse to self-mythologize. In the spoken-word section that opens “Choreomania,” she traces the contours of an anxiety attack: “I am freaking out in the middle of the street with the complete conviction of someone who has never had anything actually really bad happen to them,” she says in a crisp monotone. The pandemic is a constant presence: She sings about her friends getting sick, about the joy and futility of the mundane. The stakes are high, but too often, she tries to convey the album’s scary-movie sensibilities by contorting her voice into a howl or a croak. The theatrics distract from the more satisfying drama, as the image of an auteur who equates work with worth collides with Welch’s attempts at intimacy.

She examines this tension most strikingly on “King,” the album’s opener. The track chugs along over subdued percussion before it swells into classic, titanic Welch, belting over harp. She argues with a lover about the endpoints of her ambition, whether art is useless, if she can build a version of motherhood that would mesh into her own mythology. “I am no mother/I am no bride/I am king,” she howls. Welch’s ambivalence about motherhood is a central theme. “I feel like to have a child and to let that amount of love in.… I’ve spent my life trying to run away from these big feelings,” she told Vogue . “Big feelings” are practically Welch’s brand, but on Dance Fever , she bristles at them. “What a thing to admit,” she starts off the lilting, Maggie Rogers -assisted “Girls Against God,” “but when someone looks at me with real love, I don’t like it very much.” Welch stamps these stark admissions throughout the album, little lacerations tucked into the bass and trumpets. At times, she reaches for profundity and stumbles into hyperbole. “If I was free to love you, you wouldn’t want me, would you,” she laments on “The Bomb,” comparing love to literal destruction: collapsing buildings, burning skin.

The album sags when it attempts its stated purpose: to celebrate dance itself. Partly this is because of just how disparate these tracks feel, likely as a result of their bifurcated production. Antonoff produced most of the first half of the album, and he shares a writing credit on many of those tracks; the latter half is largely produced by Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley. Dance Fever is as propulsive as any Florence and the Machine album, but its momentum sometimes feels unearned. Bayley twists “My Love” into a schmaltzy club track, kicking off with what seems like a trite Hamilton reference: “I was always able to write my way out,” Welch coos over finger snaps. Her past EDM collaborations sparkled—none more than the Calvin Harris -produced “ Sweet Nothing ”—but “My Love” is too stilted to open up a dancefloor. Even “Free,” perhaps the most buoyant song on the album, eventually becomes flimsy. It’s an ode to the power of dance, the freedom in movement—well-worn concepts that Welch treats like novel ideas.

But there’s a moment when the cello slows to a sputter and the frenetic drums ease up, and she seems to think out loud. “Is this how it’s always been,” she muses, “to exist in the face of suffering and death, and somehow still keep singing?” On another album, where the stakes were anything less than life and death, this question might be overwrought. But Dance Fever works best when Welch asks questions, when she’s a witness to terror and absurdity, marveling at her own ability to make it through.

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Dance Fever

“When I make records, I make them with the idea that no one else will hear them,” Florence Welch tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “When you get to the realization that this private dialogue is going to be completely public, it’s like I’ve tricked myself again.” On her band’s fifth album Dance Fever, such private dialogues include rejecting real love (“Girls Against God”), dance as the greatest form of release (the anxious synth-folk of “Free”), embracing less healthy coping mechanisms in her past (“Morning Elvis”), and the push-pull between a creative career and the possible desire to start a family. “I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king,” Welch declares in baritone on “King,” in which she ponders one of Dance Fever’s most prominent themes: her complicated relationship with her own artistry. “A lot of it is questioning what it gives to me as well, and being like, ‘Why do I need this so much, sometimes at the cost of more sustainable forms of intimacy or more stable relationships?’” she says. “I think this record is questioning, ‘How committed am I to my own loneliness? How committed am I to my sense of a tragic figure?’” Work on the album had begun alongside producer Jack Antonoff in New York in early 2020 before the pandemic forced Welch back to London, where her creativity was stifled for six long months. Dance Fever, then, also covers writer’s block (the cathartic “My Love,” a track intended to help shake off Welch’s blues, and our own) and her despair of what was lost in a locked-down world. Her lyrics occasionally poke fun at the image she has created of herself (“I think there's a humor also in self-knowledge that runs through this record that I've actually found really liberating,” says Welch), but they are often as strikingly vulnerable as on 2018’s High as Hope. And even if the singer admits on “King” that she is “never satisfied,” her band’s fifth album has brought her rare peace. “I feel like I managed to take everything that I learned in the last 15 years and consolidate it into this record, into this art, into the videos,” she says. “I felt like, if I had to prove something to myself, somehow I did it on this record.” Read on as Welch talks us through a selection of tracks on Dance Fever. “King” “Sometimes songs just arrive fully formed, and it's always when you think you'll never write a song again. I felt like my creative abilities were finally at the peak of how I understood myself as an artist and what I wanted to do. But if I wanted to have a family, there was this sense that suddenly I was being irresponsible with my time by choosing this thing that I've known my whole life, which is performance, which is making songs, which is striving to be the best performer that I can be. Somehow, it would be your fault if you miss the boat. I think that scream at the end of ‘King,’ it's just one of frustration, and confusion as well. I was thinking about Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. I was thinking about how they can commit their body entirely to the stage. I was like, ‘Oh my god, I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm going to have to make choices.’ It's a statement of confidence, but also of humor that the album has, of ‘If I'm going to sacrifice these other things in my life, I have to be the best.’ I was like, ‘Why not me? Why can't I be king?’” “Free” “I think out of all the Florence + the Machine songs, it's sort of the purest sentiment of why I do it, distilled into why music is so important to me, why I need it, why performance is so important to me. Sometimes you just know a song is working: When we started playing it before it had even come out, just this ripple started in the audience of people catching onto the chorus and starting to move. And it was one of those moments where I was like, ‘Oh, this is a special one. This is really hitting something in people.’ And that's so magical for me. That's when the celebration starts.” “Daffodil” “I thought I'd lost my mind, because I remember coming home and being like, ‘Okay, I wrote a song today. It might be the most Florence + the Machine thing I've ever done. We're a year into the pandemic, I think maybe I'm losing it. The chorus is just “daffodil” over and over again.’ I was like, ‘Can you do that? That's a crazy thing to do.’ There were so many moments where I had nearly gave up on this record. There were so many moments where I nearly went, ‘It just feels like the way that the world is, this is just too hard to finish.’” “The Bomb” “There's a lot of nods, I think, to the previous records. All three of them are in this album, which is nice. Because I feel like somehow I'm bridging the gaps between all of them on this record, like all the things I've been interested in. This song is nodding to what I was thinking about, in terms of unavailability in people, in High as Hope in songs like ‘Big God,’ with like the obsession of someone who'll never text you back. Why is the person who creates the most space and gives you nothing the most appealing person? And really that's because if you're a songwriter, they give you the most enormous space for fantasy and you can write anything you want because they don't really exist. Every time I think in my life I've been in a stable place, something or someone will come up and be like, ‘How do you feel about blowing all this up?’ It's also a fear of growing up and a fear of getting older, because if you regenerate yourself constantly through other people by blowing up, changing everything, you never have to face aging or death.” “Morning Elvis” “I'm obsessed with Nick Cave as a performer, but the performer he's obsessed with is Elvis. So that's how it feeds back to me. I was at home and stuck and there was an Elvis documentary. It made me remember us, when we were on tour in New Orleans, it would have maybe been on the second record. The wheels were really coming off for me, in terms of drinking and partying. I just got very in the spirit of New Orleans and was at a party and just went, 'You all leave without me, I'm staying at this party.' I ended up with my dress completely shredded, because I'm always wearing these vintage things that basically just disintegrate: If you’re on a rager, you will come back with nothing. You would've thought things were going so well for me. What was it about me that had such a death wish? I had such little care for myself. It didn't matter what I had done the night before, or the week before, or what chaos I had created, I knew if I got to the stage, something there would save me and that I would be absolved. And that song is about that feeling, but also a testament to all the performers I've seen turn pain into something so beautiful.”

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Dance Fever Tour

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The Dance Fever Tour was the fifth concert tour by Florence and the Machine in support of their fifth studio album, Dance Fever . The tour began on April 15, 2022 at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, and concluded on September 2, 2023 in Mijas, Spain. [1] [2]

• 1.1 European and North American Festivals 2022
• 1.2 North America
• 3 References
• 4 Navigation

Setlist [ ]

European and north american festivals 2022 [ ].

• " Shake It Out "
• " What Kind of Man "
• " Kiss with a Fist "
• " Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) "
• " Big God "
• " What the Water Gave Me "
• " Girls Against God "
• " Ship to Wreck "
• " Never Let Me Go "
• " Heaven Is Here "
• " My Love "
• " Dog Days Are Over " Encore
• " Cosmic Love "
• " Spectrum (Say My Name) "

North America [ ]

• " Daffodil "
• " Dog Days Are Over "
• " Dream Girl Evil "
• " Prayer Factory "
• " Cassandra "
• " Morning Elvis "
• " Choreomania "
• " Restraint " Encore

References [ ]

• ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/florence-and-the-machine-dance-fever-tour-1328707/
• ↑ https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/florence-the-machine-north-american-leg-2022-dance-fever-tour-1235050232/
• ↑ https://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/musica/noticia/2023/01/30/festival-mita-anuncia-lana-del-rey-e-florence-the-machine-veja-programacao-completa.ghtml
• ↑ https://www.mondomilano.it/eventi/concerti/florence-and-the-machine-in-concerto-a-milano

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Florence + the Machine are set to play an extended run of North American headline dates later this year, kicking off September 2 in Montreal with further stops including New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and many more. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.

Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg will join as support on select dates throughout the tour. See full routing below and visit Florence + The Machine’s official site for further information.

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The tour will celebrate the release of Florence Welch’s forthcoming, highly anticipated fifth album Dance Fever , out on May 13 . Florence has shared three songs from the album—“My Love,” “King” and “Heaven is Here” – all of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde with choreography by Ryan Heffington.

Additionally, Florence will play two very special, intimate shows this spring: April 29 in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and May 6 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York—both shows sold out in seconds.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown—clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness—and the hope of reunions to come.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance—a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety—with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived to New York in March 2020 to begin recording when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop , longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as “Nick Cave at the club.” Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar .

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.

Pre-order Dance Fever .

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

April 29: Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles, CA May 6: Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, NY September 2: Place Bell, Montreal, QC September 3: Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON September 7: Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL September 8: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN September 10: Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkson, MI September 12: Capital One Area, Washington, D.C. September 14: TD Garden, Boston, MA September 16: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY September 20: Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN September 21: Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, GA September 23: Amway Center, Orlando, FL September 24: FTX Arena, Miami, FL September 27: Moody Center, Austin, TX September 28: The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX October 1: Ball Arena, Denver, CO October 4: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC October 6: Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, WA October 7: Theater of the Clouds, Portland, OR October 9: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA October 12: Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA October 14: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA.

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