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Widespread Panic Tour Dates
Here’s the latest concert dates list of tour dates for the Widespread Panic tour. Widespread Panic will tour through out 2010 in the United States. Look for a Widespread Panic concert near you.
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Widespread Panic 2010 Spring Tour Dates :
 We already knew Widespread Panic was on the top of bill for the 2010 Wanee Music Festival, but now they’ve rolled out a full Spring tour taking them through familiar territory in the South and Southeast.
The band also recently released two classic archive shows from 2001 and they’re currently in the studio working on a new album to be released later this year. Good old Widespread…always keeping busy.
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Widespread Panic Spring Tour 2010 :
Widespread Panic and Band of Horses have scheduled back-to-back shows this spring at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion in Raleigh.
The two bands will take the stage at Walnut Creek April 23 and 24. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb, 5 at 10 a.m. via Live Nation, the Pavilion box office and select Blockbuster stores. Prices range from $32 for Lawn to $37 for Reserved Seating.
Widespread Panic will kick off its spring tour March 25 at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach and is set to wrap it up May 8 in Alabama. So far, Band of Horses is only scheduled to open the North Carolina and Alabama gigs.
As we’ve previously reported, the band has signed on to perform at Myrtle Beach, SC’s House of Blues from March 25-27, along with Live Oak, FL’s Wanne Music Festival on April 16 and 17 and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 29. The group has now added some additional late April and early May dates that will focus on Southern climates, and include multiple night runs at Washington, DC’s Warner Theatre (April 20 and 21), Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheatre (April 23 and 24), Richmond, VA’s The National (April 26 and 27) and Orange Beach, AL’s The Wharf.
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Widespread Panic Announces Spring Tour :
 Widespread Panic has filled out its spring tour itinerary. As we’ve previously reported, the band has signed on to perform at Myrtle Beach, SC’s House of Blues from March 25-27, along with Live Oak, FL’s Wanne Music Festival on April 16 and 17 and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 29. The group has now added some additional late April and early May dates that will focus on Southern climates, and include multiple night runs at Washington, DC’s Warner Theatre (April 20 and 21), Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheatre (April 23 and 24), The National in Richmond, VA (April 26 and 27) and Orange Beach, AL’s The Wharf. Band of Horses will open the North Carolina and Alabama shows.
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Widespread Panic maps spring road trip for 2010 :
Jam-rockers Widespread Panic offered their fans hints about forthcoming new material last month before unveiling the group's tour plans for spring.
The group will kick things off March 25-27 in Myrtle Beach, SC, before appearing at the April 16-17 Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL. Other stops on the outing include two nights apiece in Washington (4/20, 21); Raleigh, NC (4/23, 24); Richmond, VA (4/26, 27); and Orange Beach, AL (5/7, 8), as well as single nights in a handful of additional towns.
WP continues to support 2008's "Free Somehow," its 10th studio album and the follow-up to 2006's "Earth to America." The latest disc, which surfaced last year, was recorded in Nassau, Bahamas, and re-teamed the band with legendary producer Terry Manning (ZZ Top, Jimmy Buffett).
"Free Somehow" is Widespread Panic's first release with new guitarist Jimmy Herring, who replaced George McConnell in 2007. McConnell had joined Panic following the 2002 cancer death of founding member Michael Houser.
 In October, the band released "Montreal 1997," the latest in a series of live, full-show "Widespread Panic Archives" sets the band has issued over the last two years. The first release in the string, "Carbondale 2000," surfaced in 2008, followed by "Valdosta 1989" and "Huntsville 1996."
Late last month, the band announced on its website that it was "hard at work ... working on songs for a new release later on in the year." The group is working on the new material at John Keane Studios in Athens, GA.
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Widespread Panic Announces Spring 2010 Touring Plans and The New Porch Songs Archive Series Featuring Soundboard Recordings From 1986-2004 :
Widespread Panic has a special spring break planned with 3 nights at House of Blues in Myrtle Beach SC, March 25, 26, and 27 before they kick off a full Spring Tour on April 17th at the Wanee Festival in Lake Oak, Fl.
Widespread Panic will be making a stop at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 29th. Special guests have been added to a few dates with Band of Horses on April 23 & 24 in Raleigh, NC at Walnut Creek Amphitheater and on May 7 & 8 in Orange Beach, AL at The Wharf Amphitheater, and Robert Randolph and the Family Band on May 1st in Tulsa, OK at the Bok Center. Local Area food banks will be on hand at the venues to collect can goods for the Feeding People Through Music (http://www.widespreadpanic.com/goodpeople/feeding-people-through-music-food-drives) food drives.
And more music from the Widespread Panic Archive collection has been released with Porch Songs - Santa Fe 2001 through LiveWidespreadPanic.com. The new Porch Songs series features soundboard recordings from 1986-2004.
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Widespread Panic Biography (Brief) and Band Info :
One of the many neo-hippie jam bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic established a devout grassroots following on the strength of constant touring and a loose, rootsy brand of Southern rock informed by jazz and blues textures. The group's origins date to 1982, when vocalist John Bell and guitarist Mike Houser first began playing together while attending college in Athens, GA. When bassist Dave Schools left academia to join the duo the next year, Widespread Panic was officially born. The band recorded their debut single, "Coconut Image," in 1986; drummer Todd Nance joined soon after, followed by the addition of percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz and finally keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann.
 Widespread Panic released their energetic debut LP, Space Wrangler, in 1988 on the tiny Landslide label. After several years of relentless touring, they signed to major label Capricorn, which issued the group's eponymously titled sophomore effort in 1991. Appearances on the 1992 and 1993 H.O.R.D.E. tours greatly expanded their fan base prior to 1993's Everyday, while 1994's Ain't Life Grand spawned the AOR hits "Airplane" and "Can't Get High." After teaming with fellow Georgian Vic Chesnutt to record 1995's Nine High a Pallet under the name Brute, Widespread Panic reconvened for the album Bombs and Butterflies, released in 1997. In the spring of 1998, the band released Light Fuse, Get Away, and Til the Medicine Takes followed a year later. Another Joyous Occasion (2000) and Don't Tell the Band (2001) marked the band's first albums of the new millennium. In June 2002, Widespread Panic returned to the road for their annual summer tour of the States, but within a month, founding member and lead guitarist Michael Houser had to bow out. Houser was battling cancer and returned home to Athens, GA, to rest while guitarist George McConnell stepped in to finish the tour. On August 10, 2002, Houser succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 40.
Houser's wish was that the band would carry on after his passing, and with McConnell becoming a permanent replacement, Widespread Panic did just that. Their next full-length album, Ball was released in April of 2003. Night of Joy and Über Cobra, both of which appeared in late March 2004, featured live selections from two of the band's shows at The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC, while they toured in support of Ball. It marked Widespread Panic's second and third live efforts, follow-ups up to 2000's Another Joyous Occasion. They returned to the studio later that year for the Halloween-themed covers record Jackassolantern, and again in 2006 for Earth to America. Free Somehow, the band's tenth studio album (and first with newcomer guitarist Jimmy Herring), followed in early 2008. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide ... Source Article Here ...
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More about Widespread Panic the band :
When guitarist Michael “Panic” Houser began collaborating with his University of Georgia buddy, guitarist/vocalist John Bell, in the early 1980s, he had no idea he was laying the foundation for a jam-rock institution. But that’s exactly what happened, with Widespread Panic playing incessantly—first in Athens, then regionally, and finally to a national audience of hardcore devotees. Adding bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo “Sonny” Ortiz and, eventually, keyboardist John “JoJo” Hermann, the band picked up speed as a touring unit, releasing its debut album Space Wrangler in 1988, some six years after Houser and Bell’s first performances together.
 In 1991 the band became the first signed to the reconstituted Capricorn label, a logical home for a group drawing upon the blues- and jazz-informed tradition established by onetime label mainstay The Allman Brothers Band. The self-titled Capricorn debut was followed by a string of well received studio albums throughout the 1990s and into the next decade—including a collaboration with songwriter Vic Chesnutt (as brute)—as the band’s audience continued to grow, with 1998’s Light Fuse, Get Away finally documenting Widespread Panic’s live prowess. (The band consistently has been ranked in Pollstar’s top 50 live draws.)
In 2002, the band was jolted with Houser’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, which forced the guitarist to leave the road, giving way to replacement George McConnell. Houser passed away on Aug. 10 of that year, after expressing his wish that the band continue. So the band persevered, with McConnell, and, in 2006, Jimmy Herring stepping in to fill Houser’s sizable shoes. More shows followed—some 2,300-plus to date, never repeating the same set—as well as albums equally split between live documents and the studio. In 2008 the band released its 10th album, Free Somehow.
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