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The Pretty Lights National Tour Underway
 Derek Vincent Smith |
After blowing out box offices across the country for the first few months of 2009, Pretty Lights is primed for a large national summer tour. With sellout after sellout across the land, the innovative electronic duo has scheduled 16 shows between now and their triumphant performance at Red Rocks in Morrison Colorado.
Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer Cory Eberhard. Together these two achieve a raw energy rarely reached in the realm of electronic music. At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin' beats, Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want; electro organic, cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion and send dance floors into frenzies. What makes Pretty Lights truly different though, is that the beats carry serious soul.
What makes the next summer set of shows all the more intriguing is that, somehow, amidst the relentless touring, Smith is nearing completion of the next Pretty Lights album. Scores of unheard new material is sure to be dropped along the way, confirmed by a quote direct from Smith's own blog: "Maintaining productivity and striving to constantly create fresh new music is the only way to keep this adventure exciting for myself... I couldn't bear to tour on the same record for more than a few months."
Pretty Lights continue to make its name on the festival circuit this summer which will include appearances at Bonnaroo, 10K Lakes, Rothbury, High Sierra, Wakarusa, and Camp Bisco.
Pretty Lights Tour Dates
05/22/09 Fri The Music Farm Charleston, SC
05/23/09 Sat KEFI Wilmington, NC
05/24/09 Sun The NorVa Norfolk, VA
05/30/09 Sat The Independent San Francisco, CA
06/04/09 Thu Wakarusa - Mulberry Mountain Ozark, AR
06/06/09 Sat High Noon Saloon Madison, WI
06/12/09 Fri Bonnaroo Music Festival Manchester, TN
07/02/09 Thu High Sierra Music Festival Quincy, CA
07/03/09 Fri High Sierra Music Festival Quincy, CA
07/04/09 Sat Rothbury Music Festival Rothbury, MI
07/10/09 Fri Forecastle Festival Louisville, KY
07/17/09 Fri Indian Lookout Country Club Mariaville, NY
07/22/09 Wed 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes, MN
07/25/09 Sat Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
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