FLOGGING MOLLY AND GOGOL BORDELLO ANNOUNCE CO-HEADLINING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

WITH SPECIAL GUEST MARIACHI EL BRONX 
JUNE 15 – UPTOWN AMPHITHEATRE CHARLOTTE
JUNE 16 – RED HAT AMPHITHEATER RALEIGH

- Tickets On Sale Friday, Feb. 20 at LiveNation.com -


"Two of music's most genre-defying artists, Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello, today announced a co-headlining North American tour. The 12-date tour, promoted by Live Nation, will kick off on Thursday, June 11 in Detroit, Mich. at Meadow Brook Theatre and feature the two indie bands performing at amphitheaters and theatres around the U.S. and Canada including dates in Toronto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Boston. Joining the tour as special guests will be Los Angeles-based Mariachi El Bronx.

Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello with special guest Mariachi El Bronx will play Uptown Amphitheatre Charlotte on June 15 and Red Hat Amphitheater Raleigh on June 16. A Citi® cardmember pre-sale begins Thursday, Feb. 19 through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, Feb. 20 at www.livenation.comTickets for the Red Hat Amphitheater show in Raleigh will also be available at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre and Duke Energy Center box office.  Tickets for the Uptown Amphitheatre show in Charlotte will also be available at The Fillmore Charlotte box office.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1997 by vocalist/guitarist Dave King, Flogging Molly has always defied categorization. The infectious originality of their songs is a badge of honor and key to the band's creativity, their urgency. They infuse punk rock with Celtic instruments—violin, mandolin and the accordion—and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music, the music of King's youth.  Flogging Molly's fans have always appreciated the social and political awareness driving the music. Swagger, the band's first album, transcended everyone's expectations in 2000, and the track "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" was included in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Drunken Lullabies was released in 2002 and certified Gold. In 2004, the band released Within a Mile of Home, and in 2008, Flogging Molly put out Float, a deeply stirring and personal album recorded in King's native Ireland. No surprise that Float found the band's widest audience yet. Through all of this, Flogging Molly—first, last, and always a live band—was touring, playing raucous and adrenaline-fueled shows in bars, pubs, and nearly every major rock festival in North America, Europe, and Japan


Frontman, Eugene Hutz, founded Gogol Bordello in New York City in 1999, after leaving Ukraine in the aftermath of Chernobyl. In keeping with his vision of creating an international groove, he recruited musicians of all ages, races and cultures, including bassist Thomas Gobena, from Ethiopia, Russian violinist Sergey Ryabtsev from Moscow, percussionist Pedro Erazo-Segovia from Ecuador and backing singer and dancer Elizabeth Sun from Hong Kong by way of Scotland.  The band’s endless touring and critically acclaimed shows have made them international headliners.  Their performances have taken the group throughout the US, Russia, S. America and Europe and include multiple stops at festivals such as Lollapalooza (US, Chile and Brazil), Pinkpop, Bonnaroo, Leeds, Reading and Coachella.  Gogol Bordello’s latest release, Pura Vida Conspiracy, is the band’s sixth studio album released on ATO Records."

- A Press Release

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