Rock band Daughtry has announced the first leg of the Break the Spell tour, which will kick off March 20 in Buffalo, N.Y. The end of the tour will return the five-member band to New York, though this time they will be playing The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. In between those dates, the band will play 23 concerts around the eastern half of North America, including stops in Toronto, Atlanta, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Lowell, Mass. Most dates will find the former “American Idol” finalist playing to crowds in theaters.

Openers for all shows will be Nashville band SafetySuit and singer-songwriter Mike Sanchez. Daughtry promised attendees a rocking time at these shows. SafetySuit recently landed their debut album These Times at number seven on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

“We recorded a hard-hitting rock album that is primed to blow the doors off these great theaters,” he said in a release announcing the show. “Fans who come out are going to get an incredible show every night.”

The tour is in support of the group’s third studio album, Break the Spell. That album was released in November 2011, and has since been certified gold. It debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 albums charts, and number two on the Billboard Hard Rock Charts.

One dollar from each ticket sold at these shows is set to go benefit Malaria No More. The group is a humanitarian group with the goal of ending malaria in Africa by 2015.

Chris Daughtry, lead singer and namesake of the band, gained recognition when he competed on the fifth season of “American Idol” in 2006. Though he placed fourth in that season, he has gone on to become the third most successful former “American Idol” from any season in terms of record sales – only behind Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

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