Vampire Weekend Announces Extensive North American Tour

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Vampire Weekend performs at End of The Road Festival in England on Sept. 1, 2018.

Vampire Weekend announced its first major tour since 2014 on Wednesday.

Kicking off on May 17 with a headline appearance at Alabama’s Hangout Music Festival, the tour extends into the fall, concluding with an Oct. 8 date at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Along the way, the seminal indie-rock group will play venues including New Yorks’ Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

Vampire Weekend released their first three albums between 2008 and 2013, and toured relentlessly during that period. When supporting 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City, the band enjoyed high billing at festivals such as Lollapalooza and Coachella and headlined Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, selling 11,705 tickets for a gross of $561,314.

But the band all but disappeared after that tour wrapped in mid-2014. Last year, the band began to play small gigs at Southern California clubs, before headlining several summer festivals overseas. Vampire Weekend’s only American festival gig in 2018 was Lollapalooza; the band sold 1,079 tickets for a gross of $48,555 at an affiliated aftershow at Chicago’s Metro.

For this tour, Vampire Weekend has graduated from theaters to arenas or amphitheaters in several markets. But their itinerary will bring them back to some large rooms that they’ve played before. On June 12, they’ll hit Atlanta’s Fox Theater, where they sold 2,800 tickets and grossed $113,400 in 2013. On Sept. 3, they’ll play Boston’s Agganis Arena, where they sold 5,105 tickets and grossed $201,187 that same year. And the band’s concluding gig at Red Rocks marks their return to the venue where, in 2013, they sold 9,088 tickets and grossed $388,311.

Vampire Weekend’s tour announcement follows last week’s release of “Harmony Hall” and “2021,” their first new songs in six years. Along with sharing those tracks, the band announced that their fourth album, Father of the Bride, will arrive this spring.

Tickets for Vampire Weekend’s 2019 tour go on sale on Feb. 8 at 12 p.m. local time. See a complete list of dates below.

May 17, 2019 — Gulf Shores, AL — Hangout Music Festival
June 05, 2019 — Toronto, ON — RBC Echo Beach
June 07, 2019 — Indianapolis, IN — Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park
June 08, 2019 — Milwaukee, WI — BMO Harris Pavilion
June 09, 2019 — Minneapolis, MN — The Armory 
June 11, 2019 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee
June 12, 2019 —  St. Louis, MO — Fabulous Fox Theatre
June 14, 2019 — Cleveland, OH — Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
June 15, 2019 — Cincinnati, OH — PNC Pavilion 
June 16, 2019 — Chicago, IL — Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island 
June 18, 2019 — Nashville, TN — Ascend Amphitheater 
June 21, 2019 — Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater
June 22, 2019 — Charlotte, NC — Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 23, 2019 — Dover, DE — Firefly Festival
August 16, 2019 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion
August 17, 2019 — Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall
August 18, 2019 — Dallas, TX — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
August 20, 2019 — Austin, TX — ACL Live
August 21, 2019 — Austin, TX — ACL Live
August 24, 2019 — Miami, FL — James L. Knight Center
August 25, 2019 — St. Augustine, FL — St. Augustine Amphitheatre 
August 27, 2019 — Atlanta, GA — Fox Theatre 
August 30, 2019 — Norfolk, VA — Ted Constant Convocation Center
September 03, 2019 — Boston, MA — Agganis Arena
September 04, 2019 — Philadelphia, PA — Mann Center for the Performing Arts
September 06, 2019 — New York, NY — Madison Square Garden 
September 08, 2019 — Montreal, QC — MTELUS
September 25, 2019 — Vancouver, BC — Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park
September 27, 2019 — Seattle, WA — WaMu Theater
September 28, 2019 — Portland, OR — McMenamins Edgefield
October 01, 2019 — San Francisco, CA — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
October 02, 2019 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Bowl 
October 03, 2019 — San Diego, CA — CalCoast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
October 06, 2019 — Salt Lake City, UT— The Complex
October 08, 2019 — Denver, CO— Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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