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Phish Summer Tour 2024 Announced

Phish will embark on a 26-date Summer Tour (including their 4-day Mondegreen Festival ) this July, August, and September. The Summer Tour begins July 19 with three shows in Mansfield, MA, and continues with multi-night runs in Uncasville, East Troy, St. Louis, Noblesville, Grand Rapids, and Bethel, culminating with the band’s annual Labor Day weekend tour closer in Commerce City, CO.

A ticket request period is currently underway at https://tickets.phish.com , ending Monday, March 11 at Noon ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, March 15 at 10AM ET. Specific ticketing information for each show is available at https://phish.com/tours .

Travel packages will be available for Bethel and Commerce City and go on sale this Wednesday, February 28 at 1PM local time. For more info, visit https://phishsummer2024.100xhospitality.com/

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July 19, 20, 21 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA July 23, 24 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT July 26, 27, 28 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI July 30, 31 Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, MO August 2, 3, 4 Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN August 6, 7 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI August 9, 10, 11 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY August 15, 16, 17, 18 Mondegreen, The Woodlands, Dover, DE August 29, 30, 31, Sept 1 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO

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Phish 2023 summer tour opener review: Jam-band lords deliver epic show

• Updated: Jul. 14, 2023, 5:20 p.m. |
• Published: Jul. 12, 2023, 1:45 p.m.

• Matt Wake | [email protected]

The guitarist for an unfamous ‘90s band signed to a cool record label once told me, “I’d rather cram a live fish in my ear than listen to live Phish.” It was a good line. Made me laugh at the time. Nearly 30 years later, I’ll counter: There’s no way I’d rather cram a live fish in my ear, after attending my first-ever Phish concert. The legendary jam-band kicked off their summer tour Tuesday night at a packed Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama.

If you love live music, even if Phish’s live recordings and studio albums do nothing for you, if the band’s playing in your city of residence, go see them. At least once. The musical ESP singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, bassist Mike Gordon and keyboardist Page McConnell share onstage during their frequent improvisations is incredible. When they play actual songs, the tunes are better than you might expect. And Phish is way more engaging in-person than on tape.

The best surprise, though, was the Phish fans. Sure, there were some addled clowns not of this realm peppered throughout the amphitheater. But the vast majority of Phans I encountered were friendly, fun, welcoming and sane – and stoked to share their favorite band with a newcomer.

The first song of Phish’s first show of their 2023 summer tour was “Blaze On.” From 2016 album “Big Boat,” the tune’s grooves called to mind “Man Smart (Woman Smarter),” the Calypso tune Grateful Dead used to cover. It got the concert off on a festive foot. Led by Fishman, the band really swung on this one. And McConnell got the first solo of the night, a rollicking Professor Longhair-style piano spree that took Alabama to New Orleans.

As a singer, Anastasio lacks the charisma and tunefulness of Jerry Garcia. But he’s got an honest and conversational voice, not dissimilar from Frank Zappa’s. He connects with fans and gets the songs over.

As it often goes with successful rock bands, the bassist stirs the Phish sauce. Throughout the night, Gordon’s rumbling, melodic lines made me think of the great Jack Bruce’s playing in Cream, and he added some occasional intergalactic effects too. The band also drops some doowop multi-vocal arrangements in there -- a quirky hoot.

As a guitarist, Anastasio is underappreciated outside the jam-band world. During the band’s first of two sets at their summer tour opener, he did some acid-blues Hendrix-y stuff that shook my soul. Other times his lines were endearing playfully, skipping between the groove like a dragonfly skimming water surface. It takes a special guitarist to make around thousands of people achieve ecstasy at the same time. Anastasio did that several times Tuesday night.

Like hard-rock deity Eddie Van Halen, Anastasio’s secret weapon is his rhythm guitar playing. Driving. Ethereal. Chunky. Island-flecked. Seamlessly shifting from rhythm to lead and back without a second (or in the case of some bands, a third) guitarist to cover his ass.

Like many a jam-band, Phish is rock hardware running jazz software. Is Phish better at some types of jams than others? Absolutely.

Tuesday night, the astral-plane stuff was legitimately transportive. At these peak moments, especially second set after night had fallen, the playing called to mind a flame or an ocean. A living thing. While chasing tangents onstage, Phish often molts into sonic Salvador Dali. On the other end of the scale, some attempts at funk jamming sounded like white-boy caricature, devoid of the grit and sex that makes funk funky.

Did these elongated jams get old eventually? God yes. Maybe a third of the way through the second set, when they’d go into yet another jam, I’d compose a grocery list in my head (cat food, veggie burgers, nectarines, tissue.). Later, after leaving the amphitheater and getting back to my car, I couldn’t listen to some AC/DC fast enough.

That said, when Phish played their actual tunes they consistently killed it. Towards the end of the first set, “You Enjoy Myself,” an instrumental from the band’s 1989 debut album “Junta,” was gorgeous in its intricacy and shapeshifting. Set two closer “Chalk Dust Torture,” a fan-fave from 1994 LP “A Picture of Nectar,” evoked a supergroup spliced from Steely Dan and Rolling Stones. A bit earlier in the set, a raucous “Down with Disease” electrified the crowd, who boogied as one amoeba throughout the show, but turned it up to 11 on a handful of favorites. Set-one closer “Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.” was a ‘70s-TV-cop-show-theme rebooted as a feature film.

Phish was formed on the streets of Burlington, Vermont circa 1983. The band broke big at the end of the decade, during the late ‘80s/early ‘90s jam baby-band boom created in the wake of the formerly piratical Grateful Dead’s late career mainstream stardom. But Phish’s oddball-ness (and lack of songs with choruses that stick with you) makes the Grateful Dead seem like NSYNC by comparison in term of commercial appeal.

The dudes in Phish have looked like they’re in their mid-40s for at least 30 years. Now 58, Anastasio with his glasses, slender build, tasteful clothes and beard, calls to mind Eric Clapton if Clapton preferred ping-pong to model trains. Fishman, also 58, could go as dress-wearing Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson for Halloween. Sporting an expensive haircut and long-slimmed-down frame, 58-year-old Gordon resembled a venture capitalist with a great personal trainer. From behind his keyboard phalanx, McConnell, 60, exuded English professor brainwaves.

A great thing about Phish is they don’t take themselves too seriously. During “You Enjoy Myself,” as is their wont, Anastasio and Gordon sharply executed a choreographed bouncing routine on mini trampolines roadies brought out. They never missed a note.

Phish’s summer tour stage set doesn’t feature a giant inflatable penis. Anastasio doesn’t dash around in a catsuit or cape. But a Phish concert’s visuals are just as impressive as the musicianship. This is because the band’s longtime lighting designer, Chris Kuroda, is a wattage warlock.

At Orion, the lighting dazzled with patterns and colors reflective of the music rather than bombastic brightness. The lighting rigs also moved around and reassembled in different clusters. Museum-worthy visual art. Even in broad daylight at the beginning of the concert (Phish performs sans opening act), the lighting was magic.

The 8,000-capacity Orion is smaller than many venues Phish play -- like Wisconsin’s 37,000-cap Alpine Valley Amphitheater, or New York’s 19,500-cap Madison Square Garden, the latter home to a seven-concert stand later this summer.

Tuesday was the first of two nights in Huntsville, a city Phish had never previously played before. This summer, Orion Amphitheater will also host multi-night jam-stands by Widespread Panic and Billy Strings. Since opening last year, has booked several big artists’ debuts in Huntsville, a city known for its aerospace engineering, including: Robert Plant, Stevie Nicks, Smashing Pumpkins and Jack White. ’90s alt-rock icons Weezer recently rehearsed at Orion before launching their own summer tour there.

In their tour opener, Phish dropped several references to Huntsville’s space-centric identity. Pocket-protector rocker “Halley’s Comet” received an early airing. Set two opened with a fusion-fried version of “Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30,” Richard Strauss’ dramatic classical piece known for its use in sci-fi film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

During his extend spoken-word intro to “Icculus,” the existential, amorphous number that heated up Phish’s encore, Anastasio riffed about rocket science, etc. As a bonus, they dropped Gordon/Fishman-sung groover “555,” cut in nearby Muscle Shoals for the band’s 2014 “Fuego” album, into the first set.

The day prior to their summer tour, passersby could hear Phish soundchecking at Orion. Gordon also ventured out into downtown Huntsville, including a visit to Honest Coffee and a colorful wall mural.

All told, Phish played for around three hours Tuesday night. The first set was maybe 75 minutes, then a 90-minute-plus second set, then a five-song encore. A testament to the fans, if any of them left during the 40 minute-ish intermission, I couldn’t tell. Phish’s second Huntsville show is set for Wednesday night at Orion.

Real talk. Some jam-band fans can be annoying -- nitpicking about P.A. minutia, scoffing when a non-jam-band plays “for only two hours,” obsessing over setlists like a cure for cancer’s hidden in there, etc. But every musical scene has its wankers in need of levity.

At Orion, it was a sea of smiles and good vibes. And many there were getting their buzz on, as they should be -- it’s a damn rock concert. Tuesday night, plumes of sweet-leaf punctuated the air above the general admission floor, where my tickets were. But most Phish fans I was around Tuesday didn’t have the tombstone eyes I remembered from many fans at Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic shows I went to back in the ‘90s.

Many of these ‘23 Phish fans looked more like hipsters than hippies. (So many dudes with ironic mustaches and wearing sunglasses poached from Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video.) They probably make more money than I do at their jobs. At one point, I did get pelted with a green glowstick flung from the seats above. And of course, I got offered a puff on a J by headband-wearing dude with a neighborly smile. (”Thanks man, but I’m working.”)

Maybe 15 minutes into the Phish show, it seemed like something was missing. And that something was making the experience better. Then I realized, the vast majority of Phish fans are too busy dancing and enjoying the music to feel they have to document every other song on video with their smartphones. (In 2023, classic jam-fan dance moves are still in play: The Running Man, The Chicken Wing, The Interpretive Dance Recital, The Aerobics Routine, The Tribal Ritual, The Hippie Princess, etc.)

It was rad to have just a sea of fans and a band dominate my sightline at a concert instead of a fleet of amateur videographers with no self-awareness. Occasionally at Phish’s opener, a fan would get their phone out to snap a pic of the stage. Or vid part of a song. But by in larger the audience was in the moment the whole time -- no surrender-your-phone-until-leaving-the-venue-artist-manifesto required. Just 8,000 music fans being here now.

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Phish Announce 23-Date Summer Tour 2023, Seven Nights at MSG

Today, beloved jamband Phish announced they’ll set out on a 23-date summer tour. The run of shows will see the Vermont-bred group share their music with fans across the country, accumulating with their traditional Labor Day Weekend run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo. They’ll also perform over seven-nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Phish’s summer tour will begin at the new Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Ala., over two evenings on July 11 and 12 – marking their debut at the venue. They’ll continue to make multi-night runs over the season, with stops at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Ga., on July 14, 15 and 16; the Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park in Wilmington, N.C, on July 18 and 19; The Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown Pa., on July 21 and 22; and the TD Pavilion at the Mann in Philadelphia, on July 25 and 26, before they head to Madison Square Garden.

After arriving in the City That Never Sleeps, Phish will perform seven evenings: July 28, 29 and 30, with a pause on the 31, then Aug. 1, 2, 4 and 5. Following the extended celebration in New York, the band will pick things up at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo., nearly a full month later on Aug. 31. They’ll continue with performances outside of Denver on Sept. 1, 2 and 3. Notably, on July 23, Phish will make their only single-day stand at St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview in Syracuse, N.Y.

A ticket request period is currently underway here , ending Monday, Feb. 27, at Noon ET. Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, March 3 at 10 a.m. ET.

Specific ticketing information for each show is available here . A discounted seven-show ticket will be available for the Madison Square Garden shows.

Learn more about travel packages for Alpharetta, Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York and Commerce City here . Travel packages go on sale Thursday, March 2, at 11 a.m. local time.

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Phish Summer Tour 2023

JULY 11 – Orion Amphitheater – Huntsville, AL 12 – Orion Amphitheater – Huntsville, AL 14 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA 15 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA 16 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA 18 – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park – Wilmington, NC 19 – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park – Wilmington, NC 21 – The Pavilion at Star Lake – Burgettstown, PA 22 – The Pavilion at Star Lake – Burgettstown, PA 23 – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview – Syracuse, NY 25 – TD Pavilion at the Mann – Philadelphia, PA 26 – TD Pavilion at the Mann – Philadelphia, PA 28 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 29 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 30 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY

AUGUST 1 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 2 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 4 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 5 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 31 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Commerce City, CO

SEPTEMBER 1 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Commerce City, CO 2 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Commerce City, CO 3 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Commerce City, CO

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Phish Round Out Tour Opener in Huntsville with “Ether Edge” Debut

Last night, Wednesday, July 12, Phish returned to the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Ala., to celebrate the joys of summer tour and the community they’ve fostered. For the second evening of their 23 date celebration, and closing performance of their two-night stint in Alabama, the Vermont-bred band treated fans to yet another debut along with an encore with some early, less frequently played songs including “Alumni Blues” and its companion piece “Letter to Jimmy Page.” 

Like the evening before, Phish continued to celebrate their 40 years together with surprises as Trey Anastasio stepped out and ripped into “Plasma” marking the first tine the band has ever opened a show with the the song. Anastasio’s pedal work shined on the pristine jam, and not long after, the band flowed into “Sigma Oasis” lush with improvisation. Page McConnell then took a deep breath before diving in and dishing out the resonate intro of “Wolfman’s Brother,” which was followed by “Evolve.” Next, Mike Gordon took the reins for “Mull,” a track off his experimental new album Flying Games – a welcomed and introspective addition to the greater band’s songbook. The song melded into “Bouncing Around The Room” before Jon Fishman’s cymbals crescendoed and Anastasio lit off some fretboard fireworks on “Stash,” before they closed the frame with a Goliath “David Bowie.”

The second set started with “A Wave of Hope” off of Anastasio’s Lonely Trip – the guitarist’s bandmates utilized the song to highlight their improvisational skills and had a conversation of three before he rejoined with the riff of “Fuego” starting the longest jam of the night. Without pause they flowed into “Piper” before arriving at the second debut of their summer tour “Ether Edge.” Like “Oblivion”–the debut from evening before–the song is one of 10 Anastasio shared during his run at the Mission Ballroom in Denver with the Trey Anastasio Trio. Notably, of the six songs in the second set the debut was the only number that was not explored for over 10 minutes, though in the short time it was played McConnell dished out blissful work on the Rhodes. To round out the second set the band paired “Mercury”” with “Free,” the former of which featured Fishman’s Marimba Lumina which was used the night before to open the second set with “2001” – making for a rare two-night appearance of the MIDI controller.

For the encore the band once again nodded to the respected nearby NASA center and tapped some older tunes. They opened with “Alumni Blues” which included the altered lyrics “I had no hat on my head / And no PhD,” and contained “Letter to Jimmy Page.” The evening was closed on a high note with a closing “Run Like an Antelope.”

Phish will perform next at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Ga., on July 14, 15. and 16.

Watch all 21 remaining shows of Phish’s Summer Tour via LivePhish in 4K or HD + 48 hours of unlimited replay  here .

Phish Orion Amphitheater – Huntsville, Ala. July 12, 2023

SET 1: Plasma > Sigma Oasis > Wolfman’s Brother, Evolve, Mull > Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, David Bowie

SET 2: A Wave of Hope -> Fuego -> Piper > Ether Edge[1], Mercury > Free

ENCORE: Alumni Blues[2] > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Run Like an Antelope

[1] Phish debut. [2] Lyrics changed to “no PhD.”

This show featured the Phish debut of Ether Edge. Trey teased Super Bad in Free. Trey changed the first Alumni’s lyrics to “no PhD.”

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Phish Launches Summer Tour In Alabama With “Oblivion” Debut & Bust-Out Heavy Encore [Photos/Videos]

With both Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon coming fresh off solo runs within the past two weeks, this was as well primed a Phish as fans could expect for a tour opener these days. Those warm fingers would pay off right from the get-go, breaking in Huntsville’s new Orion Amphitheater with a blistering fervor, and shrugging off any of the askew juju that arises from Phish starting its summer in one of the most conservative states in the nation. Because apparently, Phish just opens tours in Alabama now. It’s a thing.

Trey came out confidently on “Blaze On”, confident enough to not care that the band also opened spring tour in Seattle with it. But there did seem to be more of an assuredness in his tone—less pedal fidgeting and knob redialing than one would normally expect to see from him during the first few songs of a tour.

After flashing the devil horns and gushing about how pumped he was for tour to start, Anastasio turned to Page McConnell for the sampled intro to “Martian Monster”. There was an immediate mountain of space and a degree of comfort in the band’s interplay that suggested 40 years of playing with each other is really paying off.

“Moma Dance” felt particularly strong with Gordo back on his five-string bass after rocking the four-string for the spring tour. You know a “Moma” is going well when Jon Fishman starts hollering from behind his drum kit mid-jam, and the stoke level was high on this one.

“Halley’s Comet” found McConnell pulling some harmonic rephrasing on his vocal lines, with far greater success than Anastasio has had in his attempted rearrangements in recent years. There would be no extended jam on Halley’s but it did drop flawlessly into “46 Days”—a move that has happened enough times to make this transition come off as nothing less than perfect. The tepid, overall crowd reaction to Trey’s blister-fest though, suggested that this was not your average Phish crowd. Perhaps that inspired the quick meat and potatoes romps through “Back on the Train”, and “555” that followed.

Phish – “46 Days” [Pro-Shot] – 7/11/23

The first set would close with the one-two punch of “You Enjoy Myself” and “Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.”, a pairing I would have wrongly wagered had to have happened before. It’s unclear whether “Santos”‘s cries of space smells were pushed on by the nearby NASA center, or just because “YEM” ran out of oomph before Trey could get all of his first set ya-yas out. Either way, it was about as punchy of a first set as Phish has played all year.

A crackling ambient jam bled into “2001” to start the second set, and for a tune that was once ubiquitous with opening second acts, this is actually only the sixth time it has happened this century, per Phish.net . Fish messed around on his Marimba Lumina for the intro, and it didn’t really add much, but hopefully granted an extra crumb of self-worth to whomever on the crew has to set up a giant piece of equipment every night only in hopes that “Mercury” gets played. The second half of “2001” had a variety of dynamic interplay that made the simplicity of the song feel especially thick and set up the subsequent sonic paths that would emerge for the rest of the show.

“2001” rolled into “Down With Disease”, which felt back to its normal strength after losing a little gusto in its last appearance at Hollywood Bowl when Mike was without that low B string on his new four-string bass. Once “DWD” really found its legs, it became an absolute clinic of polyrhythmic thunder precision. This was thick Phish—heads down, ears up, sonic humidity.

In case you were wondering if Fishman still has his sample pad going, a lip smack, saw wobble, and good ole’ moo were in full effect throughout the set. In fact, the strategically placed moo right before Trey came in with the “Twist” vocals was one of his best placements yet. As usual, this was another rock-solid “Twist” and was followed by a rock-solid “Maze”. It has felt like Phish has been searching for the perfect second set spot for “Maze” these past couple years, and this one seemed to gel with the set’s flow as well as anything could have at that point.

“Lonely Trip” took the late second set ballad spot, and it worked beautifully. Trey is doing that one a great service by making sure it’s not overplayed, and it makes its little groove feel all the more welcome each time it pops up. Then came the new one: “Oblivion”.

First off, this debut of the Trey/ Tom Marshall  composition was ripping but it still showed a ton of potential. As compared to a lot of new Anastasio originals, “Oblivion” isn’t overly wordy, it doesn’t have any sunny soul lyrics, and it opens up into a rumbling dark pocket. I’m sold. Let’s bring some of that darkness back into the catalog. It will be interesting to see how frequently this one pops up throughout the summer, because if given the right chance it could go the distance. After that, it felt like “Chalkdust Torture” was going to act as a quick closer, but then some weightiness got tacked onto the end. It was an ideal topper to an overall great flowing set. And then that encore…

Phish – “Oblivion” – 7/11/23

The first “Meatstick” in nearly a full year. Then “Makisupa Policeman” appeared after its longest gap in 30 years (LTP 10/26/21 ). There was no keyword though, which always takes away a little of the magic, but then the third “Fuck Your Face” of the post-pandemic era. Clearly in a great mood, Trey then busted out the eight “Icculus” of the century with more references to rocket science and the nearby NASA base. “Character Zero” would then round things out, just as it did after the “Icculus” encore at Sunday Dick’s last year, but who’s counting?

Phish wraps a two-night run at the Orion Amphitheater tonight, July 12th. For a full list of upcoming Phish tour dates, head here . To order your  LivePhish  webcast for any of the band’s upcoming summer shows, head  here . Check out a collection of fan-shot videos of last night’s show from Mike Wallace below along with images by photographer  Keith Griner .

Phish – “Martian Monster” – 7/11/23

Phish – “You Enjoy Myself” > “Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.” – 7/11/23

Phish – “Meatstick” – 7/11/23

Phish – “Makisupa Policeman”, “Fuck Your Face”, “Icculus” – 7/11/23

Setlist [ via phish.net ]: Phish | Orion Amphitheater | Huntsville, AL | Tuesday 07/11/223

SET 1: Blaze On, Martian Monster, The Moma Dance, Halley’s Comet > 46 Days, Back on the Train, 555, You Enjoy Myself > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.

SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra[1] > Down with Disease[2] > Twist > Maze, Lonely Trip, Oblivion[3], Chalk Dust Torture

ENCORE: Meatstick > Makisupa Policeman, Fuck Your Face, Icculus, Character Zero

[1] Fish on Marimba Lumina in intro. [2] Unfinished. [3] Phish debut.

This show featured the Phish debut of Oblivion. The intro to Also Sprach Zarathustra featured Fish on Marimba Lumina. DWD was unfinished. Mike teased Moby Dick in Chalk Dust Torture.

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Travis Scott Extends World Tour in Europe and the UK in 2024

T ravis Scott’s 2023 UTOPIA – Circus Maximus Tour was a sold-out success, and the rapper plans to continue the tour this summer with a number of European and UK tour dates. Scott will hit countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 

No supporting or opening acts have been announced as of yet. The tour will also support the Cactus Jack Foundation, which provides toy drives and scholarship programs to Houston, Texas youth and HBCU college students.

The Circus Maximus Stadium Tour will kick off on June 28 in Arnhem, Netherlands at GelreDome. The last date of the tour will be July 27 in Frankfurt, Germany at Deutsche Bank Park.

It doesn’t look like there will be any presale events for this tour, and tickets will be available for public sale on May 10 at 10:00 am local. Fans can get their tickets from Scott’s website . Ticketmaster also appears to be the main ticketing platform. However, if your tour date sells out on May 10, we recommend checking Viagogo for last-minute seats. You might get lucky and find tickets available for cheaper than face value. It’s worth taking a look to see what’s available!

Get your tickets soon before they sell out!

Travis Scott 2024 Tour Dates

June 28 – Arnhem, Netherlands – GelreDome

July 2 – Krakow, Poland – TAURON Arena

July 4 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion

July 6 – Nice, France – Allianz Riviera

July 8 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis

July 11 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

July 13 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live

July 16 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena

July 18 – Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Arena

July 20 – Cologne, Germany – RheinEnergieSTADION

July 23 – Milan, Italy – Ippodromo SNAI La Maura

July 27 – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park

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