| 06 March 2009
The Dave Matthews Band will play a pair of shows at Fenway Park in Boston during the group's upcoming spring/summer/fall tour, the group has announced.
The Fenway shows will take place May 29 and 30, with Willie Nelson & Family supporting. The concerts will be the band's first appearances at the historic ballpark since performing a pair of sold-out shows in 2006.
Tickets for the Boston shows will be made available first to members of DMB's fan club, which will accept requests for the shows through the fan association's website until March 11. Fans chosen through a random drawing will be eligible to purchase four tickets apiece to the two shows.
The previously announced tour kicks off April 14 in New York City, with the spring leg wrapping May 9 in Las Vegas. The summer/fall portion of the schedule gets underway May 27 in Darien Center, NY, and runs through an Oct. 2 appearance in Tulsa, OK.
A slew of acts will take turns in the tour's opening slot, including Jason Mraz, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Avett Brothers, Robert Earl Keen, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, the Hold Steady, and Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, to name a few. Details about which acts will appear at each show can be found at the group's website. The complete schedule is included below.
Dave Matthews Band will be supporting a new studio album while out on the road this year. Titled "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," the forthcoming set ix due in stores June 2. The album, which was produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), is the followup to 2005's "Stand Up," the fourth consecutive Dave Matthews Band effort to enter the US album chart at No. 1.
In addition to DMB members Dave Matthews (vocals, guitar), Carter Beauford (drums), Stefan Lessard (bass) and Boyd Tinsley (violin), the group will be joined on the record and on the road by guitarist Tim Reynolds, trumpeter Rashawn Ross and saxophonist Jeff Coffin.
Bottom Line: DMB... awesome. DM at Fenway... double awesome. DMB with Tim Reynolds... triple awesome.
DMB with Willie Nelson... hillbilly awesome?
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