The last time Colorado saw Phish, seen here playing the fourth night of a four-night Red Rocks stand, they made some memories. The band is coming back to Colorado, this time to Telluride for a couple shows. Reverb file photo by Lindsey McWilliams.
It’s 100 percent official, phanboys and girls. will play two nights at Telluride this summer.
The band just released the news in a press release this evening. The jam band will kick off the tour at Chicago’s Toyota Park on June 11, and it will include mountain plays Aug. 9-10 at Telluride Town Park. The southwestern Colorado shows — alongside three dates at Berkeley, Calif.’s, Greek Theatre Aug. 5-7 — are already widely considered the tour’s most anticipated shows by fans on message boards.
The press release quoted a Denver Post review of the band’s last Colorado play, which included four nights at Red Rocks: “(Phish) raced through some of its most technical, risky compositions, ducking and diving in four-way syncopation that illuminated the many hours the band has spent rehearsing … In fact, everything is back on the table now, with Phish’s historic four-nighter at Red Rocks already revealing a stronger-than-ever band willing to tear down and rebuild old favorites.”
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Phish’s summer 2010 tour:
6/11 Chicago, IL Toyota Park
6/12 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
6/13 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium
6/15 Portsmouth, VA nTelos Pavilion at Harbor Center
6/17 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
6/18 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
6/19 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
6/20 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
6/22 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
6/24 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
6/25 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
6/26 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/29 Canandaigua, NY CMAC
7/1 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
7/2 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/3 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park
7/4 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park
8/5 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
8/6 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
8/7 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
8/9 Telluride, CO Telluride Town Park
8/10 Telluride, CO Telluride Town Park
8/12 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/13 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/14 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
8/15 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
8/17 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theater at Jones Beach
8/18 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theater at Jones Beach
