Dashboard Confessional plans Unplugged tour 25 years after MTV performance
The North American tour opens March 12, 2027, in Chicago and ends April 3 in San Francisco, with one Canadian stop in Toronto.
Dashboard Confessional announced Monday that it will celebrate 25 years since its MTV Unplugged performance with a 15-date North American tour in March and April 2027.
The Unplugged: 25th Anniversary Tour opens March 12 at The Salt Shed's indoor venue in Chicago. Its final show is April 3 at The Masonic in San Francisco.
"Dashboard Confessional’s Unplugged was a pivotal and unifying moment for the band and our fans," frontman Chris Carrabba said. "I’m so excited to celebrate that moment in time."
The band appeared on MTV's Unplugged series on April 24, 2002, and the performance became the album MTV Unplugged 2.0 that December. The record preceded the band's 2003 breakout LP, A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar, by a year.
Carrabba said he recently played "thrillingly small solo acoustic shows in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles" and called the energy around them "fittingly, electric." He added, "I’m excited to carry that spirit into bigger venues with the band arrangements from our original Unplugged performance."
The touring band's lineup was not immediately known, nor was it immediately known whether the group will perform the full MTV Unplugged 2.0 album.
The route between Chicago and San Francisco includes Minneapolis, Toronto, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
Toronto's Massey Hall will host the tour's only Canadian show on March 15, followed by a March 17 date at Brooklyn Paramount. The Boston stop is March 19 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway.
The band will play The Pinnacle in Nashville on March 24, returning Carrabba to one of the cities where he recently performed solo. A Los Angeles show at the Hollywood Palladium follows on April 1, ahead of the San Francisco finale.
Ticket sales begin this week. Members of the Saints & Sailors Fan Club can access a presale Thursday at 9 a.m. local time, with an artist presale starting at 10 a.m., Rolling Stone reported. The band's website has ticket information.
General sales open Friday at 10 a.m. local time through Ticketmaster, Consequence reported.
The outlet also reported that Dashboard Confessional will be the main support act on Hillary Duff's 2027 The Lucky Me Tour, which starts in October.
