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Ben Folds To Rock Cities And Suburbs On First Tour As Solo Artist
08/03/2001 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss
(8/3/01, 5 p.m. ET) -- Ben Folds hit the road for his first major tour in support of his debut album, Rockin' The Suburbs, which arrives from Epic Records September 11. Folds will launch the 20-date tour with a two-night-stand at the Carrboro, North Carolina club, the Cat's Cradle, near his former homebase of Chapel Hill in the days of his now-defunct trio, the Ben Folds Five.
Folds will bring along a backing band of three--guitarist/keyboardist Snooz and bassist Millard, cohorts from Chapel Hill; and drummer Jim Bogios, who has also kept the beat for Sheryl Crow and the Dixie Chicks, according to Billboard.
The tour will be preceded by shows this month in the United Kingdom and as part of the On The Bricks summer schedule in downtown Atlanta. Folds can be found Monday night (August 6) playing the second of two nights in Australia, which he currently calls home.
Meanwhile, the title track from Rockin' The Suburbs debuted at Number 38 on the current Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Here are the current Ben Folds tour dates (subject to change):
August 6 - Melbourne, Australia - Prince Of Wales
August 10 - Atlanta, GA - Centennial Olympic Park, On The Bricks
August 18 - Staffordshire, England - V2001 Festival
August 19 - Chelmsford, England - V2001 Festival
August 20 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Liquid Room
September 7-8 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
September 9 - Pittsburgh, PA - Metropol
September 11 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
September 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts
September 13 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
September 15 - Boston, MA - Avalon
September 16 - Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
September 18 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm
September 21 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
September 27 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
September 29 - Salt Lake City, UT - State Fairpark
September 30 - Pontiac, MI. - Clutch Cargo's
October 3 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
October 4 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
October 6 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre
October 9 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
October 10 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
October 11 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
October 15 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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