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Aerosmith’s future has been in the news along with all kinds of rumors; well the rumors can be put away now as the rock and roll legends announced plans to tour with frontman Steven Tyler at the mic.

The tour is limited to the United Kingdom and Europe with concerts scheduled for some of the largest music festivals in the country. The first festival to see Aerosmith will be the Sweden Rock Festival in Solvesborg, Sweden on June 10 with the last performance slated for July 3 in Venice, Italy at the Jammin’ Festival.

Tyler stated on their official website, “Back by popular demand with more spit and fire than ever before, we’re coming across the pond and parting the waters as we go.”

Rumors of the end of Aerosmith began during the summer tour in 2009 when Tyler fell from the stage forcing the band to cancel the remainder of the tour. The special guest during the 2009 tour was ZZ Top. After Tyler’s recovery, rumors were still flying. Some believed Tyler was headed off on his own as a solo artist. Band members were more than just a bit concerned about Tyler’s sobriety as well and contemplated auditions for a new lead singer.

For all Aerosmith fans, the band seems to have patched up their differences with the announcement of the tour even with Tyler jokingly saying, “I just auditioned and I got the gig.”

Dates and venues for performances: (Dates subject to change)
Solvesborg, Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival – June 10 
Derby, England – Download Festival – June 13 
London, England – The O2 Arena – June 15 
Bucharest, Romania – To Be Announced – June 18 
Athens, Greece – Olympic Stadium – June 20 
Nijmegen, Netherlands – Goffert Park – June 23 
Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Festival – June 25 
Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi  – June 27 
Paris, France  – Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy  – June 29 
Prague, Czech Republic  – O2 Arena – July 1  
Venice, Italy – Jammin’ Festival – July 3

311 just announced their fifth consecutive year for the Summer Unity Tour with special guests this year being Pepper and featuring Offspring.

The 2010 schedule has 25 dates so far with two concerts for Alaska, one on June 18 in Fairbanks at the Blue Loon and on June 19 in Anchorage at the Moose’s Tooth Pub. After that the groups is back in the continental United States by June 24 for a stop in Columbus Ohio at the Lifestyles Community Pavilion and the last concert in Chula Vista, California at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre on July 25.

During the four-week tour, 311 will stop in Chicago on June 29 at Charter One Pavilion; in Clarkston Michigan at the DTE Music Theatre on July 7; in Bristow Virginia at the Jiffy Lube Live on July 16; and in Irvine California at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 24.

A few venues have tickets available today, while most are waiting until April or May when dates are closer. This tour will follow the spring tour throughout the Asia Pacific region with concerts in Hawaii and Japan.

The Summer Unity Tour in 2009 features Ziggy Marley with special guest The Expendables, the year before Snoop Dogg and Fiction Plane were special guests.

Dates may change but the itinerary at this time includes:

Fairbanks, Alaska – The Blue Loon – June 18 
Anchorage, Alaska – Moose’s Tooth – June 19 
Columbus, Ohio – Lifestyles Community Pavilion – June 24 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Summerfest – June 25 
Cincinnati, Ohio – Riverbend Music Center – June 26 
Chicago, Illinois – Charter One Pavilion – June 29 
Cleveland, Ohio – Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre – June 30 
Maryland Heights, Missouri -   Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – July 2 
Bonner Springs, Kansas -   Capitol Federal Park – July 3 
Saint Paul, Minnesota -   Taste of Minnesota – July 5 
Clarkston, Michigan – DTE Energy Music Theatre – July 7 
Wantagh, New York -   Nikon at Jones Beach Theater – July 9  
Holmdel, New Jersey -   PNC Bank Arts Center – July 10 
Mansfield, Massachusetts -   Comcast Center – July 11 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -   Festival Pier – July 13 
Virginia Beach, Virginia -   Virginia Beach Amphitheater – July 14  
Bristow, Virginia -   Jiffy Lube Live – July 16 
Atlanta, Georgia – Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood – July 17  
Memphis, Tennessee -   Mud Island Amphitheatre – July 18 
Morrison, Colorado -   Red Rocks Amphitheatre – July 20 
Salt Lake City, Utah -   Usana Amphitheatre – July 21 
Pasa Robles, California – Mid-State Fair – June 23
Irvine, California -    Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – July 24  
Chula Vista, California -    Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – July 25

The contemporary vocal group, Celtic Thunder, has grown a huge fan base since 2008 and it is still growing due to the North America tour. The quintet and the back up musicians will be on the road again this fall for 40 dates and venues in the United States and Canada.

The tour will begin in Rama, Ontario on September 24 at the Casino Rama Entertainment Centre with the last concert being in Clearwater Florida on November 23 at the Ruth Eckerd Hall.

The nine week tour will include stops in New York, NY at the Radio City Music Hall on October 1; Boston, Massachusetts at the Citi Performing Arts Center on October 9; Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Theatre on October 23; Anaheim California at The Grove on November 6 & 7; and in Atlanta, Georgia at the Fox Theatre on November 20^th.

Since the concert begins in the fall, only a few of the venues are offering tickets at this time. The first ones to offer tickets last week include Springfield, Buffalo, New York City, Clearwater, and San Diego with the rest following soon. The majority of the cities and venues are waiting for the official announcement before they begin to offer tickets.

The group was established in 2008 and since that time, has completed three very long tours throughout North America. The first tour began in the fall of 2008 and encompassed 50 venues. After that tour, another one quickly began in the spring of 2009 for 30 days, and ending with 27 concerts during the fall of 2009.

The new tour will highlight tracks from their February release in 2009, “It’s Entertainment”. Other concerts showcased traditional tracks with a couple of pop tunes.

Everyone has been sitting on pins and needles waiting to hear the venues and dates expanding the Eagles tour; however, no one was prepared for the announcement that the Eagles special guests for their summer concerts will be the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.

The Eagles will be touring North American venues for the summer and bringing along hot country music idols. At this time, only eight dates have been announced. The first concert will be at the Rogers Centre in Toronto Canada and the last concert will in St. Louis Missouri on June 24 at the Busch Stadium.

Keith Urban will not be performing will be absent for some of the early show including the ones mentioned above as well as the June 22 in Winnipeg, MB at the Canada Inns Stadium. The Dixie Chicks will be present at all concerts.

The tickets went on sale on March 29 for all 8 concerts. The summer tour is taking up where the spring tour ends on the West coast. The tour dates in April and May are the last leg of the Eden tour, which began in 2008.

This tour of course is another one keeping the Eagles on the road; however, this is the first tour for the Dixie Chicks in close to four years.  

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks made a derogatory statement about President Bush in 2003 during a concert in London. The trio received bad publicity from United States fans and was blacklisted by some radio stations in the southern United States. Their 2006 Accidents and Accusations Tour saw many cancellations and then fell out of sight only performing once in awhile with the Eagles.

A few of the stops along the way include Rutherford New Jersey, Boston Massachusetts, and Washington DC, along with the dates mentioned above.

Robert Plant (frontman Led Zeppelin) will be hitting the road during the summer with his brand new band – Band of Joy. The new band that Plant has pulled together will showoff their talent across the southern states.

The band will tour for one month beginning with Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee on July 13 and will end the tour at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida on July 31. The tour is only for two weeks total and only includes 12 concerts. Of course, rumor has it the tour will begin again for fall for the second leg.

The first leg of the Band of Joy tour includes stops in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Brady Theatre on July 16; in Dallas, Texas at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 23; and in Clearwater, Florida at the Ruth Eckerd Hall on July 30.

The tickets are scheduled to go on sale this week. Other dates and venues include Austin Texas on July 26 and Little Rock Arkansas on July 15, and Mobile Alabama on July 28.

The band is the group of musicians that accompany Plant on his new album with a release date late this summer or possibly early fall. The musicians in the Band of Joy include vocalist Patty Griffin, multi-instrumentalist Darrel Scott, bassist Byron House, drummer/percussionist Marco Giovino, and co producer/guitarist Buddy Miller.

Robert stated recently, “It’s been a blast working on these new songs…and I’m enjoying such creativity and vitality,” Plant said in a statement about his new material and band. “It’s been a remarkable change of direction for all of us and as a group we all seem to have developed a new groove.”

The name of the new album has not released as of this time. The record label will be Rounder, which is the same label that released Plant’s “Raising Sand”, the 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss.