Hootie & The Blowfish Confirm 2019 Tour

Hootie & The Blowfish will embark on the extensive Group Therapy Tour this summer with support from Barenaked Ladies. The group’s 44-city trek marks their first full-scale tour in nearly a decade.

The quartet will also release their first new studio album since 2005 in 2019 via Universal Music Group Nashville. Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim “Soni” Sonefeldkick off the tour at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach on May 30. Hootie & The Blowfish then focus on the Southeast before heading West via Texas. A July portion of the tour includes dates in Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey.

The Group Therapy Tour continues through August with performances in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Hootie & The Blowfish will headline in their hometown of Columbia, South Carolina to conclude the tour on September 13 after stops in Charlotte, Birmingham and Nashville earlier in the month. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, December 7 via LiveNation.com.

We received multiple attractive offers for Tipitina’s,” said Roland von Kurnatowski. “It was really important to us to ensure that this club, the icon that is Tipitina’s, end up in the right hands. We purchased the club in 1997 and have nurtured it ever since. We’re confident that Galactic is the right fit – that they will cherish Tipitina’s and take it to the next level while protecting all that makes Tips such an authentic American cultural venue.”

The note from Galactic mentions their purchase of Tipitina’s does not include the venue’s charitable arm, the Tipitina’s Foundation. Galactic will next perform at Tipitina’s on New Year’s Eve and will release a new album entitled Already Ready Already on February 8, 2019 through Tchuop-Zilla Records.