TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Tour Thru 2012, Add 2013 Concert Dates

MUSIC NEWS - After a summer of music fun that took them coast-to-coast playing Newport Folk Festival, Firefly, Virgin Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limites Festival, Outside Lands, acclaimed band Trampled by Turtles continue touring to promote their Stars and Satellites release (out via Thirty Tigers).

The Minnesota quartet will head back on the road in January for a series of dates including their first headlining show at The Fillmore in San Francisco, two nights at the Ogden in Denver, co-bill with Calexico in Albuquerque, and their debut appearance at Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Special guests on the tour will be honeyhoney and Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket. Fan Club tickets for the January and February shows go onsale on Wednesday October 24th at 1pm ET. Further details below.

In addition, the band continues their partnership with Harry Chapin founded charity WhyHunger during their January tour. They'll be auctioning off a pair of tickets to each show along with a signed poster and access to attend sound-check to benefit the organization. WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions
that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment. The ticket auction will begin on Friday October 26th at 9am EST via www.charitybuzz.com/trampledbyturtles, more details can also be found at WhyHunger.org and trampledbyturtles.com.

Since forming in Duluth, Minnesota in 2003, Trampled by Turtles always felt they were able to attain an energy on stage that can’t be found in the studio. They were so comfortable playing on the road that they treated their previous albums’ recording processes like tours. For Stars and Satellites, however, Trampled by Turtles didn’t want to simply try to recreate a live show. “We wanted to make a record that breathes,” explains Dave Simonett (guitar/vocals), “musically we wanted to step out of our comfort zone.” “This record is all about going inward,” Erik Berry (mandolin, vocals) adds, “building a focused bond as players and friends, and bringing a different mindset to the sounds Trampled by Turtles can make.” With the help of engineer Tom Herbers (Low, Jayhawks) the band moved into “Soleil Pines,” a log home outside of Duluth, to record. “You know how sometimes they say ‘less is more,’”
notes Berry, “that’s what Stars and Satellites is about.”Trampled by Turtles is Dave Simonett, Tim Saxhaug (bass, vocals), Dave Carroll (banjo, vocals), Erik Berry and Ryan Young (fiddle).

Within the contained music scene of Duluth, the members of the band did their own time in punk and rock bands, brandishing their electricity proudly before switching to acoustic instruments. While they never set out to be a “bluegrass” band, rampled by Turtles employs many of the same traditional techniques of the genre, but their differences in influences, attitude and attack make for their unique sound.

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Tour Itinerary 2012/13-

November
1 Duluth, MN Clyde Iron Works†

7 Fargo, ND Venue @ The Hub

8 Sioux Falls, SD Orpheum Theatre Center

10 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theatre

13 London, UK Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

14 Leeds, UK The HiFi Club

15 Edinburgh, UK Sneaky Pete’s

16 Belfast, UK McHughs Basement Bar

17 Dublin, IE Workmans Club

18 Birmingham, UK Hare & Hound

28 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall