Pearl Jam announced today that they will play eleven (11) Midwest and East Coast tour dates in May of 2010. The tour kicks-off on May 3rd at Sprint Center in Kansas City and wraps on May 21st at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pearl Jam’s U.S. tour follows the band’s previously announced headlining appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Festival on May 1st.
Band of Horses will open all shows except the May 20th Madison Square Garden engagement, where The Black Keys will open. Show time for all concerts is 7:30PM.
Public tickets go on sale Friday and Saturday, March 19th and 20th. (Check local concert listings.)
A special ticket presale for current members of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club begins Monday, March 15th at 9AM PDT. For full details visit pearljam.com.
PEARL JAM’S 2010 U.S. TOUR DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DATE – CITY – VENUE
May 3rd – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
May 4th – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
May 6th – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
May 7th – Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
May 9th – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
May 10th – Buffalo, NY – HSBC Arena
May 13th – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
May 15th – Hartford, CT – XL Center
May 17th – Boston, MA – TD Garden
May 18th – TBD – TBD
May 20th – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
May 21st – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Pearl Jam recently announced that they will also play a series of select European festival and headlining tour dates in June and July of 2010. The band’s European dates kick off in Dublin, Ireland at the 02 Arena and close at the Optimus Alive Festival in Oeiras, Portugal. Pearl Jam’s tour dates are in support of their ninth studio album, Backspacer. Released on September 20, 2009 in the U.S. and September 21, 2009 internationally, Backspacer debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart.
