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Dark Star Orchestra have shared the final itinerary for the band’s 2024 summer tour, spanning 26 concerts from June 28 to August 27. The renowned Grateful Dead cover ensemble’s latest dispatch adds nine new dates to the backend of its previously announced live schedule, bringing its signature brand of cosmic revivalist celebration to Northeast audiences in the deeps of the dog days. 

DSO will kick off its summer tour on June 28 with a performance at The Ledge Park Amphitheater in Waite Park, Minn. Following two further Midwest engagements in Missouri and Nebraska on June 29 and 30, the ensemble will plot a 6-stop run through the mountain region from July 3 to 9, culminating in a set at Las Vegas’ Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on July 10. After two shows in the Golden State on July 11 and 13, the group will hop to the East Coast to headline Great South Bay Festival in Patchogue, N.Y. on July 20, then wrap its previously announced suite of dates with its highly-anticipated engagement at Asbury Park, N.J.’s Stone Pony Summer Stage on July 21.

This release also tips fans to the fact that the Asbury Park show will comprise a faithful recreation of the Grateful Dead’s performance at Englishtown, N.J. on Sept. 3, 1977. “Englishtown is the biggest Grateful Dead show ever held in New Jersey with an estimated 150,000 in attendance,” notes Dark Star bassist Skip Vangelas. “Its proximity, only 25 miles from Asbury Park, and the fact that it was an epic outdoor show, made sense for us to choose.  It’s a classic show in the GD world and one that New Jerseyans, whether Deadhead or not have never forgotten!”

The band’s new dates begin on August 9 and 10 with a two-night series at Wonderland Forrest in LaFayette, N.Y. Next, the band will have its bite at the Big Apple with an Aug. 11 show at The Rooftop at Pier 17, then run up the coast for three New England dates from Aug. 14-16. After an Aug. 17 staging in Delaware, DSO will return to New York for two upstate sets on August 21 and 22. After previously announced appearances at Portland, Maine’s Thompson’s Point and Jay, Vt.’s Stetside Amphitheater on Aug. 23 and 24, the band will close out its summer tour with a final pair at Tree House Brewing Co. in South Deerfield, Mass. on August 26 and 27.

An artist presale for Dark Star Orchestra’s newly announced late-summer dates will open tomorrow, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET; fans can score tickets early with access code TERRAPIN. General on-sale will follow this Friday, May 10, at 10 a.m. ET. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.darkstarorchestra.net/tour/.

Read on for a list of Dark Star Orchestra’s new summer tour dates.

Dark Star Orchestra New Summer 2024 Tour Dates:
Aug 9 – Wonderland Forest – LaFayette, N.Y.
Aug 10 – Wonderland Forest – LaFayette, N.Y.
Aug 11 – The Rooftop at Pier 17 – New York
Aug 16 – Powder Ridge – Middlefield, Conn.
Aug 17 – Freeman Arts Pavilion – Selbyville, Del.
Aug 21 – Innovative Field – Rochester, N.Y.
Aug 22 – Frog Alley Summer Stage – Schenectady, N.Y.
Aug 26 – Tree House Brewing Company – Deerfield, Mass.
Aug 27 – Tree House Brewing Company – Deerfield, Mass.