Dispatch Shakes Off the Dust for First Tour in Ten Years
Dispatch, the indie folk-rock jam trio from Vermont popular among college kids in the Northeast during the later part of the ‘90s, has just unveiled plans to go on a short reunion tour set to kick off in June.
The tour will not only serve as a reunion for the band whose last performance as a group dates back to 2007 at the Madison Square Garden in NYC where tickets were said to be sold out in a matter of minutes, but the short jaunt will also serve as a charity gig where school programs in every city stop included in the itinerary will benefit from the concert proceeds.
Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre will serve as the tour’s starting point on June 4, followed by a gig in Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion on June 8. The band will have their lone west coast stop in Berkeley, CA on June 11 at the Greek Theatre and will fly back to the east a week later for a show at the newly built and finished Red Bull Arena in New Jersey on the 18th, where the band will make history as the first act to grace the 25,000-seater venue. Wrapping up the short slate are shows in Atlanta and Boston’s TD Garden on June 21 and 25, respectively.
As for future plans, Chad Urmston has this to say when asked about it by Relix Magazine: “”If I could predict the future, I’d say that doing something like this every two or three years isn’t out of the question…If something comes up that the three of us feel really psyched about, we can get our act together and do it … But that being said, I don’t see Dispatch as a regular thing.”
