ALLEN STONE KICKS OFF FALL HEADLINE TOUR TONIGHT AT WORLD CAFÉ LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA‏

Allen Stone launches an extensive North American headline tour tonight with a show at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live. He will play Highline Ballroom in New York City this Tuesday and Wednesday, September 25 and 26. Through a partnership with The Keep A Breast Foundation™ (http://keep-a-breast.org), fifty cents from every ticket sold on the tour (including pre-sales and ticket bundles) will go directly to the organization. Stone will kick off a European tour with Tingsek on November 21 in London. He will return to the States for a hometown show at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA on December 7. See below for itinerary.

The 25-year-old soul singer from Chewelah, WA recently won mtvU’s Fall 2012 “Freshman 5” competition, which asked viewers to vote on five up-and-coming artists primed to jump from campus favorites to household names. Fans can see Allen performing his latest single, “Sleep,” on “Late Show with David Letterman” at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifsJzi9XUJc

Stone released his self-titled album digitally via his own stickystones label last fall and it quickly entered the Top 10 of Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and the Top 5 of iTunes’ R&B/Soul charts. Performances on “Conan,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Last Call with Carson Daly” and “Live from Daryl’s House” followed and Esquire, CNN and Billboard named Stone as an artist to watch – all before he had signed with a label. ATO Records gave the album its wide release in July 2012.

“With his tangle of blond locks and lumberjack sweater, he looks less like a soul singer and more like someone you’d find selling hemp necklaces in Big Sur. But soon hundreds of slack-jawed hipsters have sheathed their smartphones to listen as he belts out the words to his song ‘Unaware,'” said Forbes.com.The New York Times’ Jon Pareles noted: “his music reached back four decades to the late 1960s and early ’70s, when songwriters like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway and Bill Withers brought introspection and social commentary to soul music.” “Stone’s beautiful music has universal appeal,” said the Chicago Tribune while the LA Weekly declared: “he’s the real deal.”

Allen Stone – Upcoming Tour Dates

Fall 2012

9/24     Philadelphia, PA          World Cafe Live

9/25     New York, NY             Highline Ballroom

9/26     New York, NY             Highline Ballroom

9/27     Washington, DC          9:30 Club

9/28     Baltimore, MD             Baltimore Soundstage

9/29     Charlottesville, VA      Jefferson Theater

10/1     Virginia Beach, VA       The Jewish Mother

10/2     Charlotte, NC              Visulite Theatre

10/3     Nashville, TN              The Cannery Ballroom

10/4     Atlanta, GA                 The Loft

10/5     Tampa, FL                   The Orpheum

10/6     Columbia, MD              Virgin Mobile FreeFest

10/7     Fort Lauderdale, FL      Culture Room

10/9     Birmingham, AL          WorkPlay Theatre

10/10   Mobile, AL                  Alabama Music Box

10/11   New Orleans, LA          House of Blues Parish

10/12   Austin, TX                   Antone’s

10/13   Houston, TX                Scout Bar

10/14   Dallas, TX                   Trees

10/16   Scottsdale, AZ              Martini Ranch

10/17   Solana Beach, CA         Belly Up Tavern

10/19   Los Angeles, CA          The Music Box

10/20   Chico, CA                    El Rey Theatre

10/21   San Francisco, CA        Great American Music Hall

10/24   Portland, OR                Mississippi Studios

10/25   Portland, OR                Mississippi Studios

10/26   Spokane, WA               Knitting Factory Concert House

10/27   Vancouver, BC            Vogue Theatre

10/30   Salt Lake City, UT       The Complex – The Grand

10/31   Boulder, CO                 Fox Theatre

11/1     Omaha, NE                  The Waiting Room

11/2     Minneapolis, MN         Fine Line Music Café

11/3     Des Moines, IA                        Wooly’s

11/4     Lawrence, KS               Granada Theater

11/7     Milwaukee, WI             Turner Hall

11/10   Columbus, OH              The Basement

11/11   Cleveland, OH              Beachland Ballroom

11/13   Ferndale, MI                The Magic Bag

11/14   Toronto, ON               The Opera House

11/15   Montreal, QC               Cabaret du Mile-End

11/16   Portland, ME               Port City Music Hall

11/21   London, UK                 Cargo                                                   11/22   Manchester, UK           The Ruby Lounge                                 11/23   Dublin, IE                    Sugar Club                                            11/24   Glasgow, UK                Classic Grand                                        11/26   Amsterdam, NL           Melkweg The Max                               11/27   Copenhagen, DK          Ideal Bar – Vega                                    11/28   Stockholm, SE                         Debaser Midis                                       11/29   Hamburg, DE               Klubsen                                                11/30   Berlin, DE                   Bohannon Soulclub                               12/1     Zurich, CH                  Eldorado

12/3     Ghent, BE                    Handelsbeurs                                        12/4     Paris, FR                      La Maroquinerie

12/7     Seattle, WA                 Paramount Theatre