The Budos Band are getting ready to hit the road in a few days, as they head towards the August 10th release date of their appropriately titled third album, The Budos Band III (Daptone).
If you want to download a free track to preview the album, click here. (When the album is made available to pre-order, I will post a link to it here.)
These guys will be doing a lot of hard time in the next few months, taking them across and around North American until they end up at this year’s Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle on Saturday, September 4th. Here are the confirmed tour dates, including a free show in Brooklyn on August 7th, which would be a great place to celebrate the release of The Budos Band III:
Fri June 11 – NYC Waters – Rocks Off Concert Cruise (The Temptress)
Sun June 27 – Calgary Jazz Festival – Calgary, AB
Sat June 26 – Vancouver Jazz Festival – Vancouver, BC
Tues June 29 – Saskatchewan Jazz Festival – Saskatoon, SK
Wed June 30 – Jazz Winnipeg Festival – Winnipeg, Manitoba
Sat July 10 – Chicago Folk & Roots Festival – Chicago, IL
Sun July 11 – Bluebird – Bloomington, IN
Mon July 12 – Millenium Park – Chicago IL
Tue July 13 – Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI
Thu July 15 – Quebec City International Summer Festival – Quebec City, QC
Fri July 16 – Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest – Ottawa, ON
Sat July 17 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON
Wed July 21 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
Thu July 22 – The Abbey Bar at ABC – Harrisburg, PA
Fri July 23 – Floydfest – Floyd, VA
Sat July 24 – Black Cat – Washington, DC
Sat Aug, 7th – Brooklyn, NY – Celebrate Brooklyn! (FREE!)
Thu Aug 12 – Los Angeles, CA – Levitt Pavilion
Fri Aug 13 – Pasadena, CA – Levitt Pavilion
Sat Aug 14 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Downtown Brew
Sun Aug 15 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands @ Golden Gate Park
Tue Aug 17 – Phoenix, AZ – Sail In
Thu Aug 19 – Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Brew Co
Sun Aug 22 – Dallas, TX – Granada
Tue Aug 24 – Oklahoma City, OK – Conservatory
Wed Aug 25 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
Fri Aug 27 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
Sat Aug 28 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theater
Tue Aug 31 – Salt Lake City, UT – State Room
Wed Sept 1 – Boise, ID – The Grove Plaza
Thu Sept 2 – Eugene, OR – W.O.W. Hall
Fri Sept 3 – Portland, OR – Dante’s
Sat Sept 4 – Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot
The Budos Band @ Southpaw 04/16 from David Andrako on Vimeo.