The Press Release:
Today, acclaimed Grammy and Juno-award winning artist Sarah McLachlan announced The Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour, live across North America next summer. Produced by Live Nation, the 30-date run kicks off on Saturday, May 25 in Seattle with back-to-back shows at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery before making stops in Palm Springs, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Chicago, Toronto, Laval, Boston, Nashville and more ahead of wrapping up on Saturday, July 6 in Sugar Land at Smart Financial Centre. Very special guest Feist will join on all dates across the tour other than Toronto, which will feature Allison Russell as support.
“I think it’s interesting as an artist or as a human for that matter, to be able to go back and look at a postcard of a time in your life and reflect on it,” said Sarah McLachlan. “I think this tour is going to be a real walk down memory lane for me, and I’m hoping that my audience, many of whom have been with me for 30 years, will also be able to go back in time with me.”
The summer tour celebrates McLachlan’s highly acclaimed third studio album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, which first released October 22, 1993 via Le Studio. The album quickly topped the charts in Canada and went certified platinum within a few weeks, selling over 3 million copies worldwide to date. Hit singles include “Possession,” “Hold On,” “Ice Cream,” and “Good Enough,” among others. The 30th anniversary tour will see McLachlan playing the beloved album in its entirety along with some of her most celebrated songs in iconic venues across North America, including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY and many more. $1 per ticket will be donated to the non-profit Sarah McLachlan School of Music. The school provides music instruction at no cost to children and youth facing barriers to access. www.sarahschoolofmusic.com.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with Artist and Citi presales (details below) beginning Tuesday, December 12. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, December 15 at 12 PM local time at livenation.com.
PRESALE: Citi is the official card of the The Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour. Citi cardmembers in the U.S. will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 12 at 10 AM local time until Thursday, December 14 at 10 PM local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but may include premium tickets, access to the pre-show soundcheck, autographed item, specially designed merch & more. For more information, visit vipnation.com.
The Tour Dates:
May 25 – Seattle, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery +
May 26 – Seattle, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery +
May 28 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater +
May 30 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre *+
May 31 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl +
Jun 01 – Palm Springs, CA – Acrisure Arena at Greater Palm Springs +
Jun 02 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park +
Jun 04 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre +
Jun 06 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre +
Jun 07 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
Jun 09 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre +
Jun 10 – Maryland Heights, MO – Saint Louis Music Park +
Jun 11 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island +
Jun 13 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill +
Jun 14 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion +
Jun 16 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park +
Jun 18 – Lewiston, NY – Artpark Mainstage Theater +
Jun 19 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage ^
Jun 20 – Laval, QC – Place Bell +
Jun 22 – Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion +
Jun 23 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater +
Jun 24 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall +
Jun 26 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann +
Jun 27 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion +
Jun 29 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater +
Jun 30 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park +
Jul 02 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP +
Jul 03 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory +
Jul 05 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater +
Jul 06 – Sugar Land, TX – Smart Financial Centre +
*Non-Live Nation Date; + With Feist; ^ With Allison Russell
ABOUT SARAH MCLACHLAN:
Sarah McLachlan is one of the most celebrated singer songwriters in entertainment with over 40 million albums sold worldwide. She has received three Grammy Awards and twelve Juno Awards over her career and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians and brought over two million people together during its three-year run. Lilith Fair raised over $7 million for local and national charities and was the most successful all-female music event, launching the careers of numerous performers. Following Lilith Fair, Sarah was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award for furthering the careers of women in music. In 2002 she founded the non-profit Sarah McLachlan School of Music which provides high quality music education and mentorship free to children and youth facing various barriers to access.
ABOUT FEIST:
Throughout her new Grammy-nominated album Multitudes, 11-time Juno Award-winning artist Feist sets her observation on the countless ways we seek out or deliberately hide from the truth: searching the natural world for portents and good omens, pulling tarot cards and masking our true emotions to spare our loved ones from pain. From a lyrical honesty that’s as confronting as it is unguarded, Feist writes of “A crucible of apex events that brought life to a new temperature.” and of “A new dimension of self awareness that time and experience seemed to require.” Her sixth full-length and first release since 2017’s critically lauded Pleasure, Multitudes took shape soon after the birth of her daughter and sudden death of her father, a back-to-back convergence of life-altering events that left the Canadian singer/songwriter with “Nothing performative in me anymore.” As she cleansed her songwriting of any tendency to obscure unwanted truths, Feist slowly made her way toward a batch of songs rooted in a raw and potent realism which is touched with otherworldly beauty.
Largely written and workshopped during an intensely communal experimental show of the same name through 2021 and 2022, the songs developed in parallel with and were deeply influenced by the mutuality of the unconventional experience. Incorporating such elements as real-time video explorations of the audience, a subtle dramaturgical disarming of normalized conventions between performer and observer, and ATMOS surround sound, the “egalitarian theatre experiment”, created in collaboration with Rob Sinclair (Peter Gabriel, David Byrne) embodied an expansive, exploratory, and elegantly wayward sound that immediately invited a more receptive state of mind, and was lauded as “A work of genius.” (Toronto Star)
At the completion of the developmental run of residencies and in turning to the task of creating the album in a bespoke residential studio in the California Redwoods, Feist produced alongside her frequent co-producers Mocky and Robbie Lackritz, with an ensemble including Todd Dahlhoff, Amir Yaghmai, Shahzad Ismaily (Lou Reed, Tom Waits) and Gabe Noel (Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington) with guest appearances by Blake Mills (Bob Dylan, Perfume Genius) and longtime collaborator Chilly Gonzales. A supreme setting for her enchanting voice and all its manifestations, Multitudes unfolds with a near-symphonic grandeur despite its moments of absolute starkness, lending an endlessly mesmeric quality to Feist’s meditations on mortality and connection and the frenetic state of the human condition.
ABOUT ALLISON RUSSELL:
Since the release of her first solo album two years ago, the self-taught singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell has redefined what artistry means in the 21st century. Outside Child, her often devastating, deeply moving, cathartic celebration of survivor’s joy, has become one of the most acclaimed albums of the past 10 years?(various honors include eight GRAMMY Award nominations, the Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year, the 2022 Americana Music Association’s Album of the Year Award, two International Folk Music Awards, three Canadian Folk Music Awards, and four UK Americana Music Awards).
The Returner, Russell’s sophomore album, is a body-shaking, mind-expanding, soulful expression of Black liberation, Black love, of Black self-respect. This new album doesn’t just deliver on the massive promise of the last two years, it brilliantly exceeds all reasonable (and unreasonable) expectations and affirms Allison Russell’s place among music’s most vital artists?and The Returner as one of 2023’s most essential recordings.
Alongside the Rainbow Coalition Band – a talented ensemble of BIack and POC, queer, and historically marginalized musicians from across the U.S. – Russell uses the power of music in order to spread her message of the “Beloved Community” and is dedicated to lifting others upwards as her own star climbs higher.
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Piercing Ken Thoughts: Now I am not going to lie and pretend that I am fully up to date on Sarah’s catalog because I am not. That being said I do like the songs that I’ve heard over the year but she is not an artist that I follow too closely. She does have an amazing voice and her concerts probably take you to a place of peace and melody which would be a nice change of pace from the absolute chaos I am often right in the middle of. I’d love to catch her performing at some point but I don’t think that these upcoming dates will be possible since I usually go to visit family in another state. I’ll know more closer to the time the regional show is happening. Wrapping up I wonder what you readers think about the news. Is Sarah someone that you follow regularly and are you excited for this tour? Chime in down below in the comments since its always great to hear from you. See you next time and please keep safe out there.
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