Formula 5 Announces 2018 Fall Tour

Upstate New York jam act Formula 5 detailed an extensive Fall Tour. The band will honor the music of Widespread Panic and the Grateful Dead with “Widespread’s Dead” sets at shows spanning September 11 – November 10.

“We loved playing Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band and The Band in recent years and thought it would be fun to add some Widespread Panic into the mix, especially because a lot of bands from where we come from don’t cover Panic,” guitarist Joe Davis said in a statement. “We are big Panic fans but we don’t get to see a lot of Panic up here. The music is just a very different pace then what we are used to as longtime Phish fans.”

Formula 5 kicks off the tour at Beach House Resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina on September 11. The quartet then brings the run to Charleston, Greenville, Asheville, Savannah, Pawley’s Island (South Carolina), Knoxville, Athens and Franklin (North Carolina) ahead of a slot at this year’s Resonance Music Festival. F5 returns to the road in October for stops in Virginia, North Carolina, New York and Michigan. From there, the band starts November with visits to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Colorado.

Davis, drummer Greg Marek, bassist James Woods and keyboardist Matt Richards follow the “Widespread’s Dead” portion of the tour with performances at the Mercury Lounge in New York City on November 29 and Triumph Brewing in New Hope, Pennsylvania on November 30. The band also confirmed December dates in Bridgeport, Burlington and New Paltz.