New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following news that his acclaimed new album 'My New Moon' has debuted at #7 on Billboard's Current Albums Chart, and Top 5 on four additional charts,
Amos Lee has announced the first of his 2019 U.S. headlining tour dates. The new dates will include Amos' first hometown Philadelphia show in years - a special performance at the Metropolitan Opera House featuring the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia - as well as two nights at Austin's ACL Live at The Moody Theater and Lee's first stops in Chicago,
Boston and over a dozen other cities since the release of 'My New Moon.' The album has been called "the most personal and deeply felt of his seven studio albums" by Billboard. It also debuted at #1 on the Rock and Americana/Folk charts, #2 on the Independent Album chart, #3 on the Vinyl chart, and more.
'My New Moon' has received some of the highest critical praise of Lee's career, lauded as "music to help listeners heal" by Salon and for his "soulful voice and empathetic lyrics" by NPR Music. Particularly poignant is album standout "Crooked," an incendiary takedown of corruption, misinformation and lies in the current political landscape, which has been hailed as "maybe the first great protest song of the Trump era" by AM New York, "haunting folk songwriting" by Rolling Stone and "in true protest folk fashion" by Pandora's Best of The Month round-up. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwX8HeZKytw
World Café/NPR
Music recently featured an acoustic performance of the single "No More Darkness, No More Light" - a song inspired by the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy and the positive change the survivors brought from such a dark situation. Watch that here: https://n.pr/2AFhQ75
Listen to Amos discuss the Charlottesville-inspired 'My New Moon' B-side "Dying White Light" with NPR's 1A: https://bit.ly/2PfVyeI.
Amos will perform both of these new songs on CBS Saturday this week, airing
September 15. The first leg of Lee's 'My New Moon' U.S. tour kicks off on Friday at New York's Beacon Theater, and before that he'll sit down for a special acoustic performance and Q&A with journalist Alan Light from The Strand's Rare Book Room this
Thursday September 13. More info here: https://www.strandbooks.com/event/amos-lee-my-new-moon
Watch Amos Lee's enthralling full-band in-studio performance of 'My New Moon' track "All You Got Is A Song" from KBCO in Boulder, CO: https://www.facebook.com/amoslee/videos/1051425548353452/
Listen to 'My New Moon' in full here: smarturl.it/mynewmoon
Tickets for all newly announced shows go on sale this Friday,
September 14, with Fan Club and Citi pre-sales launching tomorrow,
September 11. See below for a full list of confirmed dates and ticket links.
U.S. TOUR DATES
Sept 14 New York, NY Beacon Theatre #
Sept 15 Canton, MA Festival At The Farm #
Sept 16 Port Chester, NY Capitol Theatre #
Sept 18 Washington, DC Lincoln Theatre #
Sept 20 Richmond, VA Innsbrook After Hours at SERVPRO of Richmond Pavilion #
Sept 21 Charlotte, NC Knight Theater (Sold Out) #
Sept 22 Franklin, TN Pilgrimage
Music Festival
Sept 24 Lafayette, LA Heymann Performing Arts Center #
Sept 25 Dallas, TX Majestic Theatre #
Sept 27 Tucson, AZ Fox Tucson Theatre #
Sept 28 Dana Point, CA Ohana Festival
Sept 29 Monterey, CA Golden
State Theatre #
Oct 1 San Luis Obispo, CA Cohan Performing Arts Center #
Oct 2 Sacramento, CA Crest Theatre #
Mar 16 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre * ^
Mar 17 Atlanta, GA Cobb
Energy Performing Arts Centre * ^
Mar 19 New Orleans, LA Orpheum Theater * ^
Mar 20 Houston, TX Revention
Music Center * ^
Mar 22 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater * ^
Mar 23 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater * ^
Mar 24 San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theatre * ^
Mar 26 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater * ^
Mar 27 Des Moines, IA Hoyt Sherman Place * ^
Mar 29 Minneapolis, MN
State Theatre * ^
Mar 30 Chicago, IL
Chicago Theatre * ^
Mar 31 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater * ^
Apr 2 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater * ^
Apr 3 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre at Old
National Centre * ^
Apr 5 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre * ^
Apr 6 Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Opera House * ^ w/Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
* Just announced
# Caitlyn Smith supporting
^ Ethan Gruska supporting