Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters has announced its first North American tour dates.
The dates begine June 20 at the Dallas, TX, Palladium and end July 27 in Brooklyn, NY’s Prospect Park. The band will be playing five festival dates, including Britt in Jacksonville, OR, High Sierra in Quincy, CA, Jambase in George, WA, Portland Blues in Portland, OR, and Forecastle in Louisville, KY.
One of a generation of British kids, drawn without rhyme or reason, to sounds from a far away world. A world of field holler, despair, Levee camp and chain- gang moans; of Saturday night fish-fry and Juke Joint foot stomp. A million miles lay between the brooding pulse of Mississippi Delta life and the sanitized shelter of the timid English boy, circa 1962.
Fifty years on — drawing from a lifetime of adventures, tracking the dark, beautiful resonator, Plant follows his heart and lifts his voice higher and joyous ever away. A voice of experience and learning from the sounds of Southside Chicago Electric Blues; of Griot mantras from West Africa; from Louisiana Dance Halls; Greenwich Village Folk hangover; Haight Ashbury indulgences; Moroccan medina breakbeat; the early English radical techno materials, Texas two-step and Bristol Dubstep.
Before his recent projects in Nashville with Alison Krauss and Band of Joy, Plant worked alongside the very interesting force, “Strange Sensation,” recording the critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy nominated albums – Dreamland and Mighty Rearranger. From this platform, Sensational Space Shifters has developed. Now together these confederates and conspirators dig deeper and more intensely, always twisting and turning, bringing the past into a brilliant technicolor present.
The band is:
Justin Adams – guitar, bendir, vocals
John Baggott – keyboards
Juldeh Camara – ritti (one stringed African violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals
Billy Fuller – bass guitar, vocals
Dave Smith – drums and percussion
Liam “Skin” Tyson – guitar, vocals
North America tour dates :
June 20: Dallas, TX – Palladium
June 21: Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
June 23: Austin, TX – Moody Theater
June 26: Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Auditorium
June 28: Santa Barbara, CA – County Bowl
June 29: Berkeley, CA – Berkeley Greek
July 2: Jacksonville, OR – Britt Festival
July 4: Quincy, CA – High Sierra Festival
July 6: George, WA – Jambase Festival
July 7: Portland, OR – Portland Blues Festival
July 10: Morrison, CO – Red Rocks
July 12: Chicago, IL – Grant Park
July 13: Memphis, TN – Live In The Garden
July 14: Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival
July 17: New Orleans, LA – Mahalia Jackson Theater
July 19: Atlanta, GA – Verizon Amphitheatre
July 20: Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre
July 22: Vienna, VA – Wolftrap
July 24: Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun
July 25: Boston, MA – B of A Pavilion
July 27: Brooklyn, NY – Prospect Park
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