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BAND PLANS PRE-SHOW SERVICE PROJECTS AROUND THE COUNTRY
THROUGH THEIR 'AMPLIFYING EDUCATION' CAMPAIGN
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Dispatch today
announced that fans will be able to stream their forthcoming Sold Out concert
at New York City's historic Radio City Music Hall on Friday, October 5th.
Available via The Bowery Presents Live channel on YouTube, the concert stream
will be broadcast worldwide, live in HD. Fans around the world can tune in at http://www.youtube.com/thebowerypresents to watch
the show and participate in a live chat.
Dispatch's first album in over a decade, Circles
Around The Sun, was released on August 21st via the band's own
Bomber Records and debuted at Number 24 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart,
marking their highest chart entry in their 16-year career. The album also
debuted as the Number 10 Digital Album in the U.S. and earned the band career
high debuts in Germany, Canada, and Austria.
Since the very beginning, Dispatch has been a band that
has stood up and rallied its fans behind causes that challenge the status
quo. In continuing the tradition of integrating a message with their music,
the band will participate in a variety of activities to support their Amplifying Education campaign, which mobilizes the
Dispatch community to take small actions to address America's education
crisis and make a difference in the lives of children across the country.
While on the road this fall, a crew of fan volunteers will
join the band for an Amplifying Education Alternative Break Tour; a unique
trip for Dispatch fans who want to create change through hands-on service and
activism. Traveling from Denver through Minneapolis (September 28th - October
2nd), the volunteers will complete service projects at local schools during
the day, serve as concert outreach volunteers before the shows, and then
catch the band live onstage at night.
In addition, a special service project has been planned
for October 6th in Boston, MA where members of the community will be
encouraged to join the band, Radio 92.9 (WBOS), and City Year Boston to help improve the facilities of
the Boston Arts Academy, a pilot school charged with being a beacon for
artistic and academic innovation that is greatly in need of facility
improvements. Service projects have also been planned in Denver (9/29),
Chicago (10/3), and Metro NYC (10/5). For more information on how to get
involved, visit http://amplifyingeducation.org.
Over the last year, Amplifying Education has engaged over
600 fan volunteers in nearly 4,000 hours of service to improve schools across
North America and Europe; collected over 10,000 book donations to support
local literacy programs through Better World Books; and raised over $250,000
through a portion of ticket sales, benefit shows, and fan-to-fan outreach
shows to support local organizations like City Year Denver, Teach for
America, and The Waterside School. Dispatch donated $1.00 per initial
album pre-order to Amplifying Education and will donate an additional $1.00
from all tickets sold for the upcoming Circles Around The Sun tour
to the cause.
DISPATCH 2012/2013 TOUR DATES
SEPTEMBER 2012
20th
Vancouver, BC
Commodore Ballroom
21st
Seattle, WA
Moore Theatre
22nd
Portland, OR
Roseland Theatre
26th
Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood Palladium
29th
Broomfield, CO
1st Bank Centre
OCTOBER 2012
1st
Minneapolis, MN
Orpheum Theatre
2nd
Chicago, IL
Riviera Theatre
3rd
Chicago, IL
Riviera Theatre
5th
New York, NY
Radio City Music Hall [SOLD OUT]
6th
Boston, MA
Agganis Arena
8th
Toronto,
ONT
Sound Academy
9th
Philadelphia, PA
Tower Theatre
11th
Washington, DC
Constitution Hall [SOLD OUT]
12th
Atlanta, GA
Fox Theatre
JANUARY 2013
23rd
Vienna, Austria
Arena
24th
Stuttgart, Germany
Longhorn
26th
Berlin, German
Huxley's Neue Welt
28th
Copenhagen, Denmark Vega
29th
Hamburg, German
Gruenspan
30th
Frankfurt, Germany
Batschkapp
FEBRUARY 2013
1st
Zurich, Switzerland
Komplex
2nd
Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg
4th
Dortmund,
Germany
FZW
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