Damien Rice to Embark on Worldwide Tour; Summer Dates Added
By: Caryn Robbins Feb. 23, 2015
Damien Rice has added further European and U.S. dates to his extensive worldwide tour. Kicking off March 31 at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Rice will make stops at the Beacon Theater in New York City, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, with summer stops at Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Celebrate Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell, a co-headlining date at Chicago's Prirzker Pavilion with Iron & Wine and at Belgium's Rock Werchter Festival. More dates coming soon. See details below.
Of his live set, Billboard hails, "Spellbinding, captivating, riveting, mesmerizing, dazzling-there aren't enough words in the thesaurus to convey the bravura and depth it takes to hold an entire room in 2014 for two hours with no production, no visuals, no frills, just songs and stories."A limited number of advance tickets will be available to mailing list subscribers viawww.damienrice.com. For the U.S. dates, a 48-hour fan pre-sale window will begin onTuesday, February 24 at 10 a.m. local time and general on-sale will begin Friday, February 27 at 10 a.m. local time.
My Favourite Faded Fantasy, the highly-anticipated new album from Rice, is now available and continues to receive critical praise both stateside and abroad. The record debuted #1 in Ireland, #2 in Holland, #3 in Belgium and #7 in the U.K. Rice also performed the album's single "I Don't Want to Change You" on "The Late Show with David Letterman":http://bit.ly/14Ein4a.
My Favourite Faded Fantasy was produced by renowned producer Rick Rubin and Rice. The recording began in Los Angeles and finished up in Iceland. Watch a clip of Rice explaining his creative process here: http://bit.ly/10zh2Kl. Watch the official video for "I Don't Want to Change You" here: http://bit.ly/1tDE5yq. The clip was directed by Icelandic filmmaking duo Arni & Kinski and also shot in Iceland.
DAMIEN RICE TOUR DATES
March 31 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
April 1 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
April 3 Washington, D.C. Lincoln Theatre
April 4 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
April 7 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
April 8 Philadelphia, PA Academy of Music
April 10 Montreal, QC L'Olympia
April 11 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
April 13 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
April 14 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre
April 15 Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium
April 17 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
April 20 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium
April 21 Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
April 23 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
April 24 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
April 27 Mexico City, MX El Plaza Condesa
May 29 Barcelona, ES Primavera Sound Festival
June 9 Edinburgh, UK Usher Hall
June 11 Manchester, UK Albert Hall
June 13 London, UK Live at Chelsea
June 17 Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park Bandshell
June 18 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
June 20 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
June 21 Chicago, IL Prirzker Pavilion*
June 22 Toronto, ON Echo Beach
June 27 Werchter, BE Rock Werchter 2015
July 12 Dublin, Ireland The Iveagh Gardens
July 13 Cork, Ireland Live at the Marquee
July 16 Galway, Ireland Galway Arts Festival Big Top
July 20 Paris, FR Le Grand Rex
July 22 Lucerne, CH Blue Balls Festival
August 2 Copenhagen, DK Koncerhuset
August 4 Berlin, DE Tempodrom
*co-headlining with Iron & Wine
photo credit: Lilja Birgisdóttir
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