Dave Matthews Band  tickets

Dave and his band will launch their 2010 summer tour with a pair of Memorial Day Weekend shows in Connecticut and then stay out on the road through mid-September.

The three-month-plus excursion starts off May 28 and 29 in Hartford, CT, and will entertain 40 cities in all before finishing on Sept. 15 in St. Paul, MN. Highlights include two July nights (7/16 and 7/17) at Citi Field in New York City, and an Aug. 23 appearance at Los Angeles’ historic Hollywood Bowl. Dates are at right.

A variety of opening acts will join the tour at various stages, including Gov’t Mule, Ben Harper, Brett Dennen, The Felice Brothers and others.

“Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” which surfaced last summer, marks the band’s first studio set since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore last summer. Guitarist Tim Reynolds returned to the studio with the band for the record–his first recording with DMB since 1998’s “Before These Crowded Streets.”

The set debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 in early June, moving about 424,000 copies during its first week on store shelves to make the album the band’s fifth consecutive studio set to open with first week sales of at least 400,000 copies.

The album is up for two awards–Album of the Year and Best Rock Album–at this weekend’s 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The group will also perform on the show’s broadcast, which will air Jan. 31 on CBS.

Here is the complete list of dates and venues for the Dave Matthews Band concerts

May 2010
28, 29 – Hartford, CT – Comcast Theatre

June 2010
1 – Toronto, Ontario – Molson Amphitheatre
2 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
4, 5 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7, 8 – Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
15 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
16 – Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
18, 19 – Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
22 – Columbus, OH – Huntington Park
23 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Center
25 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
30 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center

July 2010
1 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
3, 4 – East Troy, WI – Alpine Valley Music Theatre
9 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
10- Pittsburgh, PA – PNC Park
13- Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
14- Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
16, 17 – New York, NY – Citi Field
20 – Virginia Beach, VA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
21 – Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
23 – Washington, DC – Nationals Park
25 – Louisville, KY – Churchill Downs Music Festival
27 – Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
28 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
30, 31 – West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre

August 2010
14 – Wichita, KS – InTrust Bank Arena
17 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
20 – Chula Vista, CA – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
21 – Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
23 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
25 – Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord
27 – Marysville, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
28 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
31 – Boise, ID – Taco Bell Arena

September 2010
3-5 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
10 – Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
11 – Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center
14 – Omaha, NE – Qwest Center
15 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

Formed in Virginia in the early 1990’s, Dave Matthews Band quickly developed an intensely loyal, grassroots following intrigued by its eclectic sound and compelling live performances. Today, with 14 million tickets sold, the Grammy Award winning Dave Matthews Band is consistently one of the top draws on the concert circuit. 2005’s Stand Up, the group’s most recent studio album, was Dave Matthews Band’s fourth consecutive studio album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. It was followed in 2006 by the band’s first-ever retrospective – The Best of What’s Around, Vol. 1 – a double disc set capturing many of the band’s hits, including “What Would You Say,” “Crash Into Me” and “American Baby.”