ALLEN STONE KICKS OFF FALL HEADLINE TOUR TONIGHT AT WORLD CAFÉ LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA
Run Includes Sept. 25 & 26 Shows At NYC’s Highline Ballroom
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 |