Baroness Extend Fan-Voted “Your Baroness” Tour  

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Baroness extend their “Your Baroness – An Intimate Evening with Baroness” tour into the New Year, with an additional five weeks of dates launching Jan. 14.

As the band did on the first leg of the special performances, Baroness is giving fans the power to create their setlist. “Your Baroness – An Intimate Evening with Baroness” ticket purchasers will be provided with a link to cast their vote for the ten songs they want to hear at the show. Baroness’s entire catalog will be fair game with no song off limits. Voting will close one week prior to each performance.

After being forced to miss a handful of shows on the initial leg of the tour, Baroness has rescheduled as many of those shows as possible: Salt Lake City, Denver, Lawrence and St. Louis. The band will use the fan-voted setlist from the postponed November dates for the first set of the evening, and give new ticket purchasers the opportunity to select the slate of songs played during the second performance of the evening.

“I cannot remember any moment in the history of this band where we’ve been more excited to tour than we are today,” said Baroness vocalist/guitarist John Baizley upon the launch of the tour. “In many ways, this upcoming tour feels similar to the very first Baroness tour in 2003: we don’t know what to expect, we’re through sitting on the sidelines, and we can’t wait to climb onstage. During the past two years we’ve tried to keep ourselves as busy as possible: writing, recording and rehearsing insofar as the pandemic would allow. Throughout that time, one fact has become increasingly clear… We are built as a live/touring band. The most powerful and important aspects of music reveal themselves only through shared experience. Baroness’ music is designed to be shared; our audience has always been the final and most important member of the band. Quite simply, it doesn’t feel right without YOU! We’ve started counting down the hours in anticipation of that first blissful moment when the lights dim and the room falls silent, when we can once again commune with our audience. We’ve missed you all dearly and we’re really excited to see the setlists you all design for us. There’s never been a better time to put the trust and control of our music in your capable hands. Electric or acoustic, sung or screamed, from the EPs to the LPs: we’re busy preparing for everything from those 6 or 7 hours of recorded music. Furthermore, we thought the pandemic had stolen from us the opportunity to play Gold & Grey in front of American audiences and we look forward to playing those songs for you as well. Finally, we’re really thrilled to have the opportunity to play up close and personal in some venues we haven’t typically played in recent years. It feels so good to share all of this news with you, we’ve missed this more than we can possibly explain. We hope to see you all soon!”

In addition to picking the band’s setlist, every attendee will also receive a free, limited-edition Your Baroness tour poster print, to be picked up at the merch booth the night of the show.

“Your Baroness – An Intimate Evening with Baroness” dates:

January 14 Harrisonburg, VA The Golden Pony

January 15 Charlotte, NC The Milestone Club

January 16 Atlanta, GA The Earl

January 18 Orlando, FL Will’s Pub

January 19 Tampa, FL Crowbar

January 21 New Orleans, LA The Parish at House of Blues

January 22 Houston, TX The Secret Group

January 23 Austin, TX Mohawk

January 25 Tucson, AZ Hotel Congress

January 26 Phoenix, AZ The Rebel Lounge

January 28 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick

January 29 Los Angeles, CA The Echo

January 30 Oakland, CA Starline Social Club

January 31 Anaheim, CA The Parish at House of Blues

February 2 Salt Lake City, UT State Room

February 4 Denver, CO Globe Hall

February 5 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck

February 6 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill

February 8 Dallas, TX Three Links

February 9 Oklahoma City, OK 89th Street

February 11 Nashville, TN The End

February 12 Newport, KY Southgate House Revival

February 13 Chicago, IL Cobra Lounge

February 15 Toronto, ON at Horseshoe Tavern

February 17 Ottawa, ON Brass Monkey

February 18 Montreal, QC Bar le Ritz PDB

February 19 Boston, MA Middle East Upstairs

Tickets are on-sale this Friday, Dec. 17, at 10 am local time. COVID-19 protocols will vary by venue and municipality but all attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or have the option to provide a negative PCR test within 24 hours of the event (where allowed). All concertgoers will be required to wear masks.

Baroness were days away from launching their Australian tour in support of Gold & Grey ((http://smarturl.it/baroness-goldandgrey) when the lockdowns began. The foursome had recently completed an extensive European tour and were looking to spend the Spring of 2020 on the road with Against Me! as part of a co-headlining trek that traversed North America. Weeks later, and in the midst of the most restrictive part of the pandemic, the band released one of the first-of-its-kind composite videos, dubbed “Tourniquet (Socially Distant),” the stirring song took on new meaning as the band members, dripping with emotional intensity, performed in isolation.