Phish announces additional tour dates + recording NEW album w/ Steve Lillywhite

Phish will extend its summer tour with 12 additional dates, including a four-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, marking its first shows at the legendary venue in more than 13 years.

NEW DATES: Phish Summer 2010 tour dates

The outing launches June 4, 2009 and will include performances on two separate days at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. See below for a complete itinerary. An online ticket request period is currently underway for the newly announced shows at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, March 26th. For information on where to purchase tickets, visit http://www.phish.com/tourdates.

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The announcement comes on the heels of the band's three-night stand at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA last weekend. "Over a massive, four-hour set, guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman and keyboardist Page McConnell ripped through dozens of crowd-favorites," said Rollingstone.com. "They kicked things off with some of their most compositionally complex tunes, from the knotted prog-funk of 'Fluffhead' to 'Divided Sky,' where the group's quiet, mellifluous interplay of guitar, drums, bass and keys suggests they're as well-oiled of a machine as they've ever been."

The New York Times, which ran two features on the concerts, noted: "as the opening passage of the anthem 'Fluffhead' enveloped the room, the eruption of exultation was not merely for the band itself but also for the millions in the Phish diaspora who make up perhaps the most fervent fandom in pop music," while USA Today said: "the foursome built the backbone of its first set on old-school material, expertly navigating hairpin changes and showing as much spunk as they ever have in this millennium."

The band has already recorded demos of 20 new songs and will enter the studio in April to begin work on its new album with Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band), who produced Phish's 1996 album, Billy Breathes. The Clifford Ball, a seven-DVD box set from JEMP Records/Rhino capturing the band's entire performance at this landmark 1996 festival, just debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Music Video chart.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the Grammy-nominated band was included in the Top 10 Grossing Concert Tours in North America from 1995-2000 and from 2002-2004. Phish has released 11 studio albums, six concert videos and a series of 44 complete live concert CDs, including 13 on its own JEMP Records. Its series of full concert downloads on livephish.com, the band's digital download store, currently totals 91.

PHISH -SUMMER 2009 U.S. TOUR DATES:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

6/4 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theatre at Jones Beach sold out
6/5 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theatre at Jones Beach sold out
6/6 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center sold out
6/7 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center sold out
6/9 Asheville, NC Asheville Civic Center sold out
6/12 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester, TN ON SALE NOW
6/14 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester, TN ON SALE NOW
6/16 St. Louis, MO Fox Theatre sold out
6/18 Burgettstown, PA Post Gazette Pavilion sold out
6/19 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center sold out
6/20 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley sold out
6/21 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley sold out
7/30 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
7/31 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
8/1 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
8/2 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
8/5 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre PUBLIC ONSALE 3/29
8/7 George, WA The Gorge PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
8/8 George, WA The Gorge PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
8/11 Chicago, IL Toyota Park PUBLIC ONSALE 4/4
8/13 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
8/14 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theater PUBLIC ONSALE 3/28
8/15 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post PavilionPUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
8/ 16 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27

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