My Morning Jacket w/ Band of Horses

MY MORNING JACKET with very special guest BAND OF HORSES will play the Raleigh Amphitheater on Sunday August 26.  Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 5 at 10am at LiveNation.com, Ticketmaster or charge by phone 800-745-3000.   
 
Tickets are also available at the Hardee’s Thickburger Box Office at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion and the Progress Energy Center box office.
 
Since their sold out Madison Square show to end off 2011, they’ve played a triumphant performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in February and shared the stage with Preservation Hall Jazz Band commemorating their 50^th Anniversary at Carnegie Hall.  Jim James also completed a tour with New Multitudes (Jay Farrer, Will Johnson and Anders Parker) in promotion of their album honoring Woody Guthrie.  Additionally, the band has been busy curating the Forecastle Festival for the festival’s 10^th Anniversary, where they will conjointly be headlining the event along with Wilco and Basnectar.
 
The band are showing no signs of slowing down in the months surrounding their tour.  My Morning Jacket will be contributing to John Fogerty’s new album, Wrote a Song for Everyone, which will be released this fall.  In the month of June, they will complete a European tour making stops in Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the United Kingdom.  The band will also be headlining this year’s Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee and Newport, Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival, as well as performing at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival next month.
 
Commencing their tour in Denver, Colorado at Red Rocks on August 3^rd and 4^th, My Morning Jacket will be recording both performances and offering them as complimentary downloads to all ticket holders for those shows.  Both My Morning Jacket and Band Of Horses are enthusiastic of hitting the road for the month long tour.  “YES! We’re touring with the incredible My Morning Jacket!” says lead singer Ben Bridwell.  “So psyched to hit the road with our buddies and (hopefully) warm you all up for the greatest band going.
 
For more information go to www.livenation.com.