Barenaked Ladies Tour 2017 Tour

I don't imagine there's that many people here who care about this, but they were my favorite band through most of my adolescence, and always a pleasure to see live. Skipped them last year, might try to hit them up this year.

Barenaked Ladies 2017 Spring Tour



03/01 - Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, Canada *added*
03/02 - Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, Canada *added*
03/03 – Motor City Casino, Detroit, MI
03/04 - Lawrenceburg Event Center, Lawrenceburg, IN *added*
03/10 - Fontainbleau, Miami Beach, FL *added*

04/21 – The Egg, Albany, NY
04/22 – Valley Forge Casino, King of Prussia, PA
04/25 - The Paramount, Huntington, NY
04/27 – Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT
04/28 – Bergen Performing Arts Center, Englewood, NJ
04/29 – Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT
04/30 – State Theater, Ithaca, NY *SOLD OUT*
05/02 – Harvester Center, Rocky Mount, VA
05/04 – The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino, Tulsa, OK
05/05 – Bluesville @ Horseshoe Casino, Robinsville, MS
05/10 – Hoyt Sherman Palace, Des Moines, IA
05/12 – Mountain Grand, Deadwood, SD
05/13 – Pikes Peak Center, Colorado Springs, CO
05/15 – Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO
05/16 – Genesee Theater, Waukegan, IL
05/26 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN
05/27 - Tampa Bay Margarita Festival (Curtis Hixon Park, Tampa, FL)
05/28 - Gears and Guitars Fest (Winston-Salem, NC)
06/17 - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH *SOLD OUT*
06/18 - Indian Ranch, Webster, MA
06/19 - Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks, Bethlehem, PA
06/24 - Greeley Stampede (Island Grove National Park, Greeley, CO)
07/07 - Mariposa Folk Festival (Tudhope Park, Mariposa, Ontario)
07/08 - Thunder Bay Bluesfest (Marina Park, Thunder Bay, Ontaria)
07/09 - Winnipeg Folk Festival (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
07/16 - Vancouver Island MusicFest (Comox Valley Fairgrounds, Courtenay, British Columbia)
07/19 - Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts (Meijer Parks, Grand Rapids, MI)
07/21 - Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, GA
07/23 - Foellinger Theater, Fort Wayne, IN
07/24 - EEA AirVenture (Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI)
09/30 - Capitol Center, North Bay, Ontario
10/02 - Stockey Center, Parry Sound, Ontario
10/04 - Oakville Center for the Performing Arts, Oakville, Ontario
10/06 - Rose Theater, Brampton, Ontario
10/10 - FirstOntario Performing Arts Center, St. Catharines, Ontario
10/11 - Imperial Theater, Sarnia, Ontario
10/12 - Sanderson Center, Brantford, Ontario
10/14 - The Grand Theater, Kingston, Ontario
10/16 - Confederation Center of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
10/18 - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax, Nova Scotia
10/20 - Queens Palace Emera Center, Liverpool, Nova Scotia
10/21 - Casino New Brunswick, Moncton, New Brunswick
10/23 - The Empire Theater, Belleville, Ontario
10/24 - Showplace Performance Center, Peterborough, Ontario
10/26 - The Burlington Performing Arts Center, Burlington, Ontario
11/01 - E.A. Rawlinson Center for the Arts, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
11/02 - Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Center, Camrose, Alberta
11/03 - Shell Theater @ Dow Centennial Center, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
11/06 - Red Deer Memorial Center, Red Deer, Alberta
11/07 - Charles Bailey Theater, Trail, British Colombia
11/08 - Key City Theater, Cranbrook, British Colombia
11/09 - Vernon & District Performing Arts Center, Vernon, British Colombia
11/11 - Sagebrush Theater, Kamloops, British Colombia

 

Seeing Steven Page on Friday, seems to have a good mix of old BNL and some solo stuff. Should be fun!

 

The Genessee Theatre is getting some good shows. Goo Goo Dolls, Plain White T's and now Barenaked Ladies.

 

Some weird markets. They're not the same without Steve, obviously, but the last record was probably their best since Maroon.

Overall, the most unfairly marginalized and misunderstood band of the modern era.

 

Surprised to see you say that. I personally think a lot of their late 00's stuff was the best (Snacktime! included,) and All in Good Time was a record that took a lot of time to grow on me but I now think is really underrated.

But I felt like the last two records were the exact kind of cheesy dad rock that they so often get chastised for making.

I agreed that that reputation is still mostly undeserved. For whatever reason, shitting on 90's pop rock had been the 'in' thing for a while. But folks'll come around...

In any case, I'm pretty sure this is just the ramp up to their usual summer tour. Wouldn't be surprised if some Canada b-market tours get added soon. Will keep the list updated.

 

Didn't really like All In Good Time, save for a few songs ("Every Subway Car" is one of the better post-split songs). Really didn't like Grinning Streak at all outside of "Odds Are." Silverball just took me back to smart songwriting with a little humor but not overly jokey and dumb. "Toe to Toe" is a classic BNL ballad, "Say What You Want" distills the spirit of the 90s into that chorus so well, and "Silverball" is the best metaphor song they've done in like a decade.

Yeah, you're right: They'll do another big summer tour, but I find the off-cycle tours have better, more diverse setlists.

 

Agreed with you on "Toe to Toe" and "Silverball," those two are indeed the best. But otherwise, I found a lot of Silverball actively cringeworthy - "Piece of Cake" and "Passcode" especially.

Outside of "Crawl," Grinning Streak left me pretty cold. And their 2015 tour was full of songs from both those records.

If you haven't listened to All in Good Time in a little while, I'd really recommend giving it another spin (heh). I always liked "Four Seconds" for its weirdness, but "Jerome," "On the Lookout," "The Love We're In," "I Have Learned," all great songs in retrospect. But I especially love "Watching the Northern Lights," I seriously thought of catching their tour last summer just to see that, and I'm unsure of whether I missed out or not!

Good note on the off-cycle tours, hopefully they do such a show somewhere in SoCal sometime soon.

 

Added some dates, including several festivals in the summer...

03/01 - Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, Canada
03/02 - Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, Canada
03/04 - Lawrenceburg Event Center, Lawrenceburg, IN
03/10 - Fontainbleau, Miami Beach, FL

05/27 - Tampa Bay Margarita Festival (Curtis Hixon Park, Tampa, FL)
06/24 - Greeley Stampede (Island Grove National Park, Greeley, CO)
07/07 - Mariposa Folk Festival (Tudhope Park, Mariposa, Canada)
07/08 - Thunder Bay Bluesfest (Marina Park, Thunder Bay, Canada)
07/24 - EEA AirVenture (Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI)

 

U.S. tour kicks off tonight, updated the OP to include all additional dates they've announced for this year.

To my surprise, not a single West Coast/SoCal date...