MUSIC NEWS - Wilco has added 16 concerts in Eastern US cities beginning in Miami, FL on March 22 and wrapping up in Pittsburgh, PA on April 11. The concerts are presented as “An Evening with Wilco” and will feature extended, varied sets exploring material from each of the Chicago sextet’s seven studio albums. The tour includes concerts in Clearwater, Savannah, Atlanta, Durham, Richmond, Bethesda, Montclair NJ (NYC area), Providence, Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and features Wilco’s first concerts Scranton, PA, Concord, NH and Hartford, CT.
Ticket presales for the new dates start Wednesday, January 6 at 10 am EST via the band’s official website, Wilcoworld.net. All other tickets go on sale Friday, January 8 and Saturday, January 9. Check the band's site or individual concert venue for details.
With these added dates, the band will continue what was already a busy start of 2010 for them. Later this month they'll be in L.A. for the 2010 MusicCares Person of the Year event to honor Neil Young. While in town they make their debut performance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (January 28). Next month (February) they hit the road on the previously announced of the Pacific Northwest, the upper Midwest and their most extensive Canadian tour in their 15-year history. Previously announced tour dates in Japan, New Zealand and Australia follow in April and May (ffull list tour itinerary is below).
Wilco’s latest studio album, the Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) has landed on many critic’s year end polls as one of the best albums of 2009. As you likely know, WILCO was founded by Jeff Tweedy in 1995 with bassist John Stirratt, Wilco is Jeff Tweedy (guitars, vocals), John Stirratt (bass, vocals), Glenn Kotche (drums), Nels Cline (guitars), Pat Sansone (guitars, keyboards, vocals) and Mike Jorgensen (keyboards, vocals). The band has seven seven studio albums, a live album and a live DVD as well as two collaborations with Billy Bragg performing Woody Guthrie tunes.
WILCO 2010 Tour Itinerary-
Califone supports February 7 – 24
February
7 Missoula, MT Adams Center
9 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Hall
10 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
12 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre
13 Vancouver, BC David Lam Park (free show as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics)
15 Edmonton, AB Jubilee
16 Calgary, AB Jubilee
17 Saskatoon, AB TCU Palace
19 Duluth, MN DECC Auditorium
20 Madison, WI Overture Hall
21 East Lansing, MI Cobb Great Hall
23 Hamilton, ON Hamilton Place
24 London, ON Centennial Hall
Bahamas support February 26 – March 3
26 Quebec City, QB Imperial De Quebec
27 Montreal, QB Olympia
March
1 Ottawa, ON National Arts Centre
3 Halifax, NS Forum
22 Miami, FL Jackie Gleason Theater
23 Clearwater, FL Ruch Eckard Hall
25 Savannah, GA Johnny Mercer Theatre
26 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
27 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center
29 Richmond, VA The National
30 Bethesda, MD Strathmore
31 Scranton, PA Scranton Cultural Center
April
2 & 3 Montclair, NJ (NYC area) The Wellmont Theatre
4 Providence, RI Lupo’s
6 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
7 Concord, NH Capitol Center for Arts
9 Hartford, CT Bushnell Center
10 Philadelphia, PA The Electric Factory
11 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall
22 Osaka, JP Big Cat
23 Tokyo, JP Zepp Tokyo
27 Auckland, NZ Civic Theatre
28 Wellington, NZ Wellington Town Hall
30 Brisbane, AU The Tivoli
May
01 Sydney, AU State Theatre
02 Marrickville, AU Factory Theatre
05 & 06 Melbourne, AU Forum
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