ZZ Top Announce 50th Anniversary Tour

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ZZ Top performs in 2015.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers ZZ Top announced an expansive 50th anniversary tour on Monday.

The string of dates kicks off Aug. 16 at Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre in Ridgefield, Wash., and concludes Oct. 20 at Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Fla. The 34-show tour will hit sheds and arenas throughout the United States and includes select dates with Cheap Trick and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

As ZZ Top nears its golden anniversary, the band remains a live force. The group has secured a spot on Pollstar‘s Year End Top 200 North American Tours chart each of the last four years, with a total North American gross of $37.7 million over that period.

Last year, ZZ Top appeared on the chart twice – under its own entry, with $6 million grossed, and alongside John Fogerty, with a $9 million gross for the pair’s co-headlining tour.

“It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this!” the band’s Billy Gibbons said in a statement. “We’re truly excited to be appearing across the continent this summer and fall, playing our bluesy kind of rock like we started in ’69. The beards, Frank’s excepted, are perhaps a bit longer, yet nothing else has changed. We’re keeping it that way.”

Find the tour’s list of dates below.

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Courtesy of ZZ Top – ZZ Top
ZZ Top will stage a 50th anniversary tour later this year.

August 16 – Ridgefield, WA – Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre*
August 17 – Airway Heights, WA – Northern Quest Casino Theater
August 20 – Yakima, WA – Yakima Valley SunDome
August 21 – Woodinville, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle*
August 23 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre**
August 24 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion**
August 25 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre*
August 27 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater
August 28 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU*
August 29 – Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre*
September 1 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre*
September 4 — Milwaukee, WI – BMO Harris Pavilion”
September 6 – Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
September 7 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
September 8 – Sterling Heights, MI–Michigan Lottery Amphitheater at Freedom Hill*
September 10 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center at The Heights*
September 11 – Burgettstown, PA – KeyBank Pavilion*
September 13 – Ocean City, MD – Ocean City BikeFest
September 14 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion*
September 18 – Boston, MA – Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion*
September 19 — Wamtagh. NY — Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater*
September 21 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica*
September 22 – Louisville, KY – Champions Park
October 5 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre*
October 6 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion*
October 9 – Charleston, SC – Volvo Cars Stadium*
October 11 – Cherokee, NC – Harrah’s Cherokee – Event Center*
October 12 — Manchester, TN – Exit 111 Festival 
October 13 – Alpharetta, GA – Verizon Amphitheatre*
October 15 – Augusta, GA – The James Brown Arena*
October 16 —St. Augustine, FL — St. Augustine Amphitheatre*
October 18 — Estero FL – Hertz Arena*
October 19 – Tampa, FL – MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre*
October 20 — West Palm Beach, FL — Coral Sky Amphitheatre*
* with Cheap Trick
**with Lynyrd Skynyrd
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