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Dave Matthews Band Announces U.S. Summer Tour

Online Ticket Presale For Warehouse Fan Association Underway

General on sale begins on february 16, band unveils “on the road to zero waste” initiative, in partnership with live nation, dmb commits to planting another million trees with the nature conservancy, which will bring total trees planted to five million.

Following a 14-country spring tour of Europe and the U.K., Dave Matthews Band will launch an extensive U.S. summer outing on May 22 in Tampa, FL at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre. The headline run will bring the band back to some of fans’ favorite venues, including Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI (June 21 and 22), Broadview Stage at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, NY (July 5 and 6) and The Gorge in George, WA (August 30-September 1), where the band traditionally celebrates Labor Day weekend and has sold out each of its previous 70 shows. With the summer tour, Dave Matthews Band will be introducing new sustainability measures as part of its “On The Road To Zero Waste” initiative – a partnership with Live Nation .

An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at https://davematthewsband.com/warehouse . Citi is the official card of the Dave Matthews Band 2024 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 13 th , at 9 am local time until Thursday, Feb 15 th , at 10 pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com .

General on sale for tickets begins on February 16 th at 10 am local time. For the complete itinerary, see below or visit http://www.davematthewsband.com .

Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing its environmental footprint.  This summer, the band is partnering with Live Nation’s operated venues to minimize the concerts’ footprint even further – with the goal to divert at least 90% of fan-generated waste from landfills.  Leveraging its existing leading sustainability resources, Live Nation will support the concerts’ goal by providing zero waste green teams, zero waste stations, food donations, waste sorting, composting and the use of minimal single-use plastic.  Fans are encouraged to check venue websites for details closer to the tour dates. This year’s continued partnership with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign will bring the total to five million trees planted since DMB teamed up with TNC in 2020 to support reforestation.  For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org . Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, who will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.

Dave Matthews Band has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined and more than 25 million tickets since inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history. The band’s new album, Walk Around The Moon , is available HERE . Pitchfork praised the album’s “tight-knit, tender songs.” Associated Press noted, “‘Walk Around the Moon’ is a varied set, with the tracks veering from small and intimate to brassy and political, with a filthy groove propelling ‘Break Free,’ a nostalgia-tinged and brooding ‘Monsters’ and the band absolutely cooking with ‘The Only Thing.’”

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2024 U.S. TOUR DATES

Date                  City/State/Province                     Venue

5/22                 Tampa, FL                                  MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

5/24                 West Palm Beach, FL                  iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

5/25                 West Palm Beach, FL                  iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

5/28                 Jacksonville, FL                           Daily’s Place Amphitheater

5/29                 Jacksonville, FL                           Daily’s Place Amphitheater

5/31                 The Woodlands, TX                     Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

6/1                   Dallas, TX                                  Dos Equis Pavilion

6/12                 Alpharetta, GA                           Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

6/14                 Raleigh, NC                                Coastal Credit Union Music Park

6/15                 Virginia Beach, VA                      Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater

6/21                 East Troy, WI                             Alpine Valley Music Theatre

6/22                 East Troy, WI                             Alpine Valley Music Theatre

6/25                 Cuyahoga Falls, OH                     Blossom Music Center

6/26                 Clarkston, MI                             Pine Knob Music Theatre

6/28                 Noblesville, IN                            Ruoff Music Center

6/29                 Noblesville, IN                            Ruoff Music Center

7/5                   Saratoga Springs, NY                   Broadview Stage at SPAC

7/6                   Saratoga Springs, NY                   Broadview Stage at SPAC

7/9                   Wantagh, NY                             Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

7/10                 Holmdel, NJ                               PNC Bank Arts Center

7/12                 Mansfield, MA                           Xfinity Center

7/13                 Bristow, VA                                Jiffy Lube Live

7/16                 Gilford, NH                                BankNH Pavilion

7/17                 Gilford, NH                                BankNH Pavilion

7/19                 Camden, NJ                               Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

7/20                 Camden, NJ                               Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

8/23                 Greenwood Village, CO               Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre

8/24                 Greenwood Village, CO               Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre

8/27                 Bend, OR                                   Hayden Homes Amphitheater

8/30                 George, WA                               The Gorge Amphitheatre

8/31                 George, WA                               The Gorge Amphitheatre

9/1                   George, WA                               The Gorge Amphitheatre

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MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds | Tampa, FL

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iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre | West Palm Beach, FL

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Daily's Place | Jacksonville, FL

The cynthia woods mitchell pavilion presented by huntsman | woodlands, tx.

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Dos Equis Pavilion | Dallas, TX

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Ameris Bank Amphitheatre | Alpharetta, GA

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Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek | Raleigh, NC

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Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach | Virginia Beach, VA

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Alpine Valley Music Theatre | East Troy, WI

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Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls, OH

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Pine Knob Music Theatre | Clarkston, MI

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Broadview Stage at SPAC | Saratoga Springs, NY

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Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater | Wantagh, NY

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PNC Bank Arts Center | Holmdel, NJ

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Xfinity Center | Mansfield, MA

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Jiffy Lube Live | Bristow, VA

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BankNH Pavilion | Gilford, NH

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Freedom Mortgage Pavilion | Camden, NJ

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Hayden Homes Amphitheater | Bend, OR

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Gorge Amphitheatre | George, WA

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Dave Matthews Band Adds Fall Dates to 2023 Tour

The band is touring in support of their latest record 'Walk Around the Moon'

Sanjay Suchak

If you missed a Dave Matthews Band show this summer, don't fret! The band just added more shows.

On Tuesday, the "Crash Into Me" performers announced a series of shows in the fall in support of their latest album Walk Around the Moon .

The shows will kick off on Nov. 7 at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Ga. and will wrap at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 18 in New York. The band will perform eight shows total.

A portion of the proceeds from their shows in their hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia will benefit the redevelopment of Charlottesville's public housing. Dave Matthews Band, Bama Works and Red Light Management have already committed $5 million to the project.

Presale tickets for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association are available now at   www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com . General sale will begin on Friday, Sept. 15.

The band — which is led by Dave Matthews — is currently on their summer tour, with their traditional Labor Day weekend headlining appearance at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash. this weekend. The group will be joined by a range of other artists, including Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Briscoe, Tank and the Bangas, Thee Sacred Souls, Sierra Ferrell and Abraham Alexander.

The band — which has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined — announced they would implement an  environmentally focused  component to the tour in January, which aims to reduce the carbon footprint generated from the touring.

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According to a press release, their ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has "resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s partnership, which will continue with the fall tour, will bring the total to four million trees."

The band released their latest record, Walk Around the Moon , in May.

See the new tour dates below:

11/7 – Savannah, GA – Enmarket Arena

11/8 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness Arena

11/10 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena

11/11 – Charlottesville, VA– John Paul Jones Arena

11/13 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

11/14 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

11/17 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

11/18 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

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DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ANNOUNCES FALL 2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND RETURNS TO TARGET CENTER ON NOVEMBER 13.

-- Tickets for November 13 Dave Matthews Band on sale Friday, September 23 at 10AM.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.  (September 6, 2022) – Today,  Dave Matthews Band  announced a fall 2022 North American tour, which will launch on November 2 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC - the first of three Pacific Northwest dates. The headline run, which will include shows at  Target Center in Minneapolis (November 13)  and Chicago's United Center (November 15), will conclude the weekend before Thanksgiving with a two-night stand at Madison Square Garden in New York City (November 18 & 19).

An online ticket presale for members of the  DMB Warehouse Fan Association  is now underway at  www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com,  Citi is the official card for the US dates on the Dave Matthews Band 2022 Fall Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, September 20,  at 9:00 a.m. local time until Thursday, September 22, at 10:00 p.m. local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com . 

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 23, at 10:00 a.m. local time. For itinerary, see below or visit  http://www.davematthewsband.com.   

With the 2022 tour, Dave Matthews Band will have funded the planting of an additional one million trees, bringing the total amount of trees funded to 3 million. DMB is proud to partner with The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees program, a global forest restoration effort. Fans are invited to join the band, The Dreaming Tree Wines, DocuSign and other tour partners to help regreen our planet. For more information, visit  dmbtrees.org.

Dave Matthews Band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception and a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined. With the release of 2018's Come Tomorrow, Dave Matthews Band became the first group in history to have seven consecutive studio albums debut at No. 1 on the  Billboard  200.

SHOW DETAILS Date: Sunday, November 13 Showtime: 7:30 p.m.  Venue: Target Center, 600 N 1st Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Tickets: available online at  ticketmaster.com , or  TargetCenter.com 

August 29 | 2023

Announcing 2023 fall tour.

We are pleased to announce a U.S. fall tour. The headline run, which will kick off on November 7 at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, GA, will also include a show at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC plus two-night stands at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA, Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT and New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Click  here  to view all dates.

A portion of proceeds from the John Paul Jones Arena shows will benefit the band’s ongoing commitment to the resident-led redevelopment of Charlottesville’s public housing. This contribution is in addition to the five million dollars that Bama Works, Dave Matthews Band and Red Light Management have already committed to the project.

An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at  warehouse.davematthewsband.com . Click  here  to join the Warehouse.

Citi is the official card of the Dave Matthews Band 2023 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, September 12, at 9:00 AM ET until Thursday, September 14, at 10:00 PM ET through the Citi Entertainment program. For details visit  www.citientertainment.com .

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 15, at 10:00 AM ET. For the complete list of dates, click  here .

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Lainey Wilson, Tyler Childers, The War and Treaty & More to Open Shows for The Rolling Stones

Other artists opening for the rock band's upcoming shows include KALEO and Ghost Hounds.

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The Rolling Stones will launch the group’s Hackney Diamonds North American tour on April 28 at NRG Houston, and the lineup of openers for various dates on the tour includes a few heavy-hitters from country and Americana circles.

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The tour supports The Rolling Stones’ album Hackney Diamonds , their first project of new, original material in nearly two decades.

Notably, Wilson and The War and Treaty were part of a 2023 tribute album to The Rolling Stones, Stoned Cold Country, which featured several country artists performing Stones classics.

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Richie Sambora apologizes for abrupt Bon Jovi exit, compares it to leaving the mafia

"I guess if you're in the mafia, the only thing you possibly do is disappear. And I did," the rocker says in the band's new docuseries, "Thank You, Goodnight."

Emlyn Travis is a news writer at  Entertainment Weekly  with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment. A proud Kingston University alum, Emlyn has written about music, fandom, film, television, and awards for multiple outlets including MTV News,  Teen Vogue , Bustle, BuzzFeed,  Paper Magazine , Dazed, and NME. She joined EW in August 2022.

Looking back, Richie Sambora regrets the way that he chose to leave Bon Jovi . 

In the final episode of the new Hulu docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story , the guitarist apologized for his controversial decision to exit the legendary rock band just hours before they were set to perform in Calgary on their 2013 Because We Can tour. But Sambora also asserted that the group "knew exactly why I didn't get on the plane that night" during his interview for the doc, which premiered Friday.

"People have this preconceived notion of Richie Sambora because they read about me in the tabloids, because they see the Bon Jovi machine," he said. "It's a band. It's really, really hard to be married to four other guys and be in close quarters and that, coupled with my daughter coming of age."

At the time, Sambora, who had previously entered rehab in 2007 and 2011, cited personal issues as the reason for his sudden disappearance, but he later told PEOPLE that the decision came specifically from needing to put his health and relationship with daughter Ava first. So musician Phil X, who filled in for Sambora in 2011, returned to cover the rest of the band’s 2013 tour dates. 

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“I don’t regret leaving the situation, but I regret how I did it,” Sambora clarified in the docuseries. “So I’d like to apologize fully right now to the fans, especially, and also to the guys, because my feet and my spirit were just not letting me walk out the door.”

He added, “I guess if you’re in the mafia, the only thing you possibly do is disappear. And I did.”

Despite a difficult start, the rest of tour went off without a hitch, with the group missing none of their 80 performances. “At the end of the day, there was disappointment and sadness and anger, but it didn’t matter to the public,” frontman Jon Bon Jovi recalled in the docuseries. “It was the number-one-grossing tour in the world that year, and that was that.”

The “Wanted Dead or Alive” singer admitted that he continues to “hold out for hope” that Sambora will one day return. “I think it’s sort of like you’re in a marriage or a family that has a situation like this and you’re always hoping that the family member’s gonna get better and everything’s gonna be peachy," he said.

Jovi also noted that he will always feel a “void” without Sambora on stage beside him. “The true magic of our live performance was when we sang together… that was our unique spot,” he said. “It was as identifiable as any great combination that made one and one three. And I don’t think that’s been replaced, no.”

These days, Sambora reflects on his time in Bon Jovi with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

“Jon and I touched the planet with those songs. You realize that you were warriors that love each other, watched each other’s backs, told each other the truth,” he said. “If anybody doesn’t think that we were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jimmy [Page] and Robert [Plant], any way you wanna slice it… come on!” 

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story is streaming now on Hulu. 

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