Nightwish just announced a big batch of tour dates for the upcoming year. This will not be their first outing with Floor Jansen but it will be the first album with her on it. I had reported earlier that May 1 at the Greek Theater was the first date. I read into it wrong and it was not the first date of the tour, just the first *announced.* I went to the opening show of the last tour but with this tour’s opening in NY I am sadly forced to await their arrival. Probably for the better as I was already planning on taking a day off just so I could go. Tickets for most venues are on sale now and will run you about $30 for general admission to just shy of $200 for a VIP meet-and-greet ticket.
Delain will be support for the tour. Speaking of, you can catch Delain alongside Sonata Arctica and Xandria on their North American tour happening now. They’ll be stopping by San Francisco this Sunday the 28th.
The list of shows as of now is as follows:
4/9 New York, NY — Hammerstein Ballroom
4/10 Philadelphia, PA — Electric Factory
4/11 Worcester, MA — The Palladium
4/13 Quebec City, QC (Canada) — Capitole Theater
4/14 Toronto, ON (Canada) — Phoenix Concert Theater
4/16 Buffalo, NY — Town Ballroom
4/17 Cleveland, OH — Agora Theater
4/18 Chicago, IL — Concorde Music Hall
4/19 Des Moines, IA — Val Air Ballroom
4/21 Denver, CO — Ogden Theater
4/22 Salt Lake City, UT — In the Venue
4/24 Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory
4/25 Vancouver, BC (Canada) — Orpheum Theater
4/26 Portland, OR — Crystal Ballroom
4/28 San Francisco, CA — Warfield Theater
4/30 Las Vegas, NV — House of Blues
5/1 Los Angeles, CA — The Greek Theater
5/2 Phoenix, AZ — Marquee Theater
5/3 El Paso, TX — Tricky Falls
5/5 Dallas, TX — Bomb Factory
5/6 Houston, TX — Warehouse Live
5/8 Orlando, FL — House of Blues
5/9 Ft. Lauderdale, FL — Revolution
5/11 Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works
5/12 Louisville, KY — Expo Five
5/13 Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore
5/14 Silver Springs, MD — The Fillmore