Van Halen Announce 2015 North American Tour
Van Halen will tour North America this summer and fall in support of their upcoming concert album, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert. The tour will kick off in Seattle on July 5 and wrap up in Los Angeles on Oct. 2.
In between, the band will play more than three dozen shows across the continent, with stops in Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Dallas and Phoenix. You can see the full list of tour dates below.
David Lee Roth -- who sang on the band's most recent studio LP, 2012's A Different Kind of Truth -- will be on board for the tour, which will include the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band as the opening act on all dates.
In addition to the upcoming tour, the band will perform a concert on Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 30 and 31, the day Tokyo Dome Live in Concert comes out. It's being touted as the band's first U.S. TV appearance with Roth. (Van Halen are also scheduled to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 2.)
The upcoming live set -- the group's first with Roth -- includes 23 songs from the seven albums the band recorded with its original singer. The album documents a show recorded on June 21, 2013, in Tokyo.
On the same day that record is released, Van Halen are reissuing remastered versions of Van Halen and 1984, with new versions of Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Fair Warning and Diver Down to follow in the spring.
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Van Halen 2015 North American Tour Dates:
July 5 – Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
July 7 – Portland, OR @ Amphitheater Northwest
July 9 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion
July 11 – San Bernardino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
July 14 – Irvine, CA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 16 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
July 20 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 22 – Bonner Springs, MO @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
July 24 – Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
July 26 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
July 28 – Burgettstown, PA @ First Niagara Pavilion
July 30 – Bangor, ME @ Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
August 1 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
August 3 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
August 5 – London, ON @ Western Fair District
August 7 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
August 9 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
August 11 – Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Center
August 13 – Wantagh, NY @ Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
August 23 – Hershey, PA @ Hershey Park
August 25 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
August 27 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
August 29 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
August 31 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
September 2 – Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
September 4 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
September 6 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 9 – Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amphitheater
September 11 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
September 13 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 15 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Coral Sky Amphitheatre
September 17 – Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
September 21 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater
September 23 – Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
September 25 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
September 28 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
September 30 – Chula Vista, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
October 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
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