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Counting Crows To Hold Concert at Dunn Tire Park on August 1 with Live, Collective Soul

May 18, 2007 - International League (IL1)
Buffalo Bisons News Release


Hey, it's Adam Duritz. I just wanted to let all our fans know that Counting Crows will hit the road this summer on a tour of America's baseball parks. We're starting on July 22 in Wilmington, DE at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium, the Home of the Blue Rocks. We're gonna hit 23 different ballyards all across the country, including the home of the Bisons at Dunn Tire Park on Wednesday, August 1.

One of the reasons I'm so excited about this little jaunt we've decided to call "The Rock 'n' Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour" is that we got really lucky and talked both Live and Collective Soul into coming along for the summer. Most of you probably know that Live are both old friends AND old touring partners of ours. We spent the summer together when CC was touring on our 3rd album "This Desert Life". We've never toured with Collective Soul before but we've played festivals together and...well, they're just a great band.

The other reason I'm really excited about this summer is that I grew up in a college town and I've always loved those kinds of places. That's why Counting Crows has always done so many tours outside the big cities. I'm definitely a city boy myself. Hell, I live in New York City. But this is a big country and, as much as I love a city, too many bands forget that there's a hell of a lot of America out there that's not New York or Chicago or LA. We haven't forgotten that and we're never going to forget it.

So if you live in Pawtucket, Rhode Island or Buffalo, New York or Sedalia, Missouri or Sauget, Illinois or any of the other 20 or so yards we'll be playing this summer, then we'll see you there. If not, get in the car and take a drive. Like I said, it's a big beautiful country. You ought a see it anyway. That's what I'm gonna do.

Okay. So that's settled. Now on to the "press release" part of this...uh...press release. I didn't write this next part but it's still important (it's got all the tour dates, after all) so read the whole thing. Anyway, this is the end of my personal compositional involvement (note the big word usage). It's been nice talkin' at ya. Here's the rest:

Tickets for the August 1 show are $49.50 and will go on sale on Saturday, June 9 at 9:00 a.m. at the Dunn Tire Park Box Office (716-843-4373). There will be 3,000 tickets available for field access.

"We are excited to bring another premier concert to Dunn Tire Park," said Mike Buczkowski, Vice President/General Manger of the Buffalo Bisons. "This concert will add to the long list of memorable shows we've had in the last 20 years at the downtown ballpark."

Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals and piano), Jim Bogios (drums), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), David Immergluck (guitar), Dan Vickrey (guitar), and Millard Powers (bassist).

Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut album August And Everything After and the hit single "Mr. Jones." Subsequent albums include Recovering the Satellites (1996), which included the hit song "A Long December"; Across A Wire: Live in NY (1998); This Desert Life (1999) and Hard Candy (2002), which featured the band's Top 10 cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". In 2004 the band released their first ever "Best Of" set Films About Ghosts, which featured songs from every phase of Counting Crow's recording career, followed by the live album *New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003, which appeared in 2006 and was greeted with universal awe and acclaim (This is Adam again. Okay, I admit I added the end of that last sentence. It just sounded better that way).

The band's most recent successes include a # 1 hit with the song "Accidentally In Love," the opening theme for the movie Shrek 2, which aside from selling over a million records, garnered nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award (none of which we won, which still pisses me off-sorry, Adam again). Counting Crows has sold over 20 million records worldwide (I didn't write that but it's cool, huh?).

LIVE, a band that came of age in the early nineties, one of rock's most creative periods, remains intact. The same four guys who debuted at the middle school talent show in York, PA and saw the release of their debut album Mental Jewelry and their breakout follow up Throwing Copper, are still together making music 20 years later. LIVE has sold over 20 million CDs worldwide and has had numerous singles reach the Billboard charts including such hits as "Selling the Drama," "I Alone," "Lightning Crashes," "Lakini's Juice" "The Dolphin's Cry" and "Heaven."

Formed in the early 1990's, Collective Soul has enjoyed major popularity as a successful rock band for over a decade. Since the release of their first album Hints Allegations & Things Left Unsaid in 1994, Collective Soul has sold over 10 million CDs worldwide and has had 19 singles reach the Billboard charts including such hits as "Shine," "Gel," "Better Now," "December," "The World I Know," "Heavy," "Why Part 2," "Where the River Flows," "Precious Declaration," and "Listen."

Tickets for all shows begin going on sale in June, check www.countingcrows.com for on sale dates and fan club pre-sales. All children under 12 will be admitted for free! A complete listing of dates is below:

Tour Dates - "The Rock 'n' Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour"

July 22nd Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, DE (Home of the Blue Rocks)

July 24th Classic Park in Eastlake, OH (Home of the Lake County Captains)

July 25th Consol Energy Park in Washington, PA (Home of the Wild Things)

July 27th Fifth Third Field in Dayton, OH (Home of the Dragons)

July 28th Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, MI (Home of the West Michigan Whitecaps)

July 31st Jerry Uht Park in Erie, PA (Home of the Seawolves)

August 1st Dunn Tire Park in Buffalo, NY (Home of the Bisons)

August 3rd Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville, KY (Home of the Bats)

August 4th Victory Field in Indianapolis, IN (Home of the Indians)

August 7th GCS Ballpark in Sauget, IL (Home of the Gateway Grizzlies)

August 8th Drillers Stadium in Tulsa, OK (Home of the Drillers)

August 10th Sedalia, MO - without Live/Collective Soul or TEB

August 11th Principal Park in Des Moines, IA (Home of the Iowa Cubs)

August 14th Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD (Home of the Ironbirds)

August 15th Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD (Home of the Keys)

August 17th MerchantsAuto.com Stadium in Manchester, NH (Home of the Fisher Cats)

August 18th New Britain Stadium in New Britain, CT (Home of the Rock Cats)

August 21st Blair County Ballpark in Altoona, PA (Home of the Curve)

August 22nd First Energy Park in Lakewood, NJ (Home of the BlueClaws)

August 24th McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI (Home of the Paw Sox)

August 25th Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, NY (Home of the Hudson Valley Renegades)

August 27th Syracuse, NY - without Live/Collective Soul or TEB

August 28th Allentown, PA- without Live/Collective Soul or TEB

August 30th Memorial Stadium in Ft. Wayne, IN (Home of the Wizards)

September 1st Midway Stadium in St. Paul, MN (Home of the Saints)

September 2nd Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo, ND (Home of the Redhawks)

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