Come One, Come All! The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show starring Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana plus special guests - come see a musical spectacle under a big top near you!

Come One, Come All! The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show starring Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana plus special guests - come see a musical spectacle under a big top near you!

NEW YORK, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-platinum artists Counting Crows announce plans for a summer tour, THE SATURDAY NIGHT REBEL ROCKERS TRAVELING CIRCUS & MEDICINE SHOW with special guests Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana, kicking off June 26 in Milwaukee, WI at SummerFest. The show will be an original format where the three bands (and some special guests along the way) will combine to play together in addition to playing their own sets. Highlights of the tour include stops at many of the best summer amphitheaters in the country such as the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA, Central Park Summerstage in New York City, Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA and Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. For tickets and on sale information on the tour visit www.countingcrows.com.

"We want to give fans a completely different concert experience this summer than they've been getting," says Counting Crows front man, Adam Duritz. "We're turning your normal concert experience on its head. We're going to go out on the road with a bunch of our friends and we're all going to play shows together. Make sure you come out early, because when the curtain rises on the MEDICINE SHOW this summer and the lights come up, Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Augustana are all going to be right there together on that stage, along with any other friends and special guests that happen to be in town and feel like joining the circus for a night. We won't know what we're going to do until we do it but we're gonna try and make a glorious noise. One way or another, by the time me and my pals walk off that stage, we're gonna make sure you remember that the Circus came to town."

Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), Dan Vickrey (guitar), Jim Bogios (drums), David Immergluck (guitar) and touring bassist Millard Powers. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, Eight Top 5 singles, and four records having broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut release August And Everything After and the hit single "Mr. Jones." In 2004, the band released their first ever "Best Of" set Films About Ghosts which featured songs from every phase of the Counting Crow's recording career and in 2006 a live record was released, New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003. Their most recent record, the double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings was released to critical and popular acclaim in March 2008. Produced by Gil Norton & Brian Deck, the album presents a duality in form and content: Saturday Nights tracks a dissolution and disintegration into madness and Sunday Mornings shows the attempt at redemption that follows.

Michael Franti is the creator and lead singer of Michael Franti & Spearhead. The Bay Area born Franti has been bringing our world exceptionally powerful, deeply felt music under a variety of names and in a wide range of genres for twenty years. From the intense punk rock of the Beatnigs, to the deeply political rap he made with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to his joyful and meaningful modern soul music with Spearhead, and now as Michael Franti & Spearhead, this still young man has released an impressive series of recordings that have vividly reflected his status as a musical citizen of this world. His latest album All Rebel Rockers was produced by superduo Sly and Robbie and rock veteran Matt Wallace, the album has been praised as his "most ambitious and musically stimulating record to date." Franti's latest single "Say Hey (I Love You)" is quickly becoming one of the biggest hits of his career.

Augustana is a San Diego, CA based quintet consisting of Dan Layus (vocals, guitar, piano), Jared Palomar (bass, vocals), Justin South (drums), Chris Sachtleben (lead guitar, mandolin, lap steel) and John Vincent Fredericks (piano, Hammond b2, vocals). The band's latest release, Can't Love, Can't Hurt, entered Billboard's Top 200 at #21 and debuted in the Top 5 at iTunes. It is the follow-up to the band's 2005 debut record, All the Stars and Boulevards, which reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and featured the RIAA-certified digital platinum hit single, "Boston." Augustana have made appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Today Show" and have toured with such artists as Snow Patrol, the Stereophonics and Dashboard Confessional.

The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show starring Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana plus special guests

   ** Check Local Listings for More Details      6/26/09   Milwaukee, WI         SummerFest supporting Keith Urban   6/27/09   Chicago, IL           Taste of Chicago   6/29/09   Columbus, OH          LC Outdoor Amphitheatre w/ Augustana   7/1/09    Muskegon, MI          Muskegon Summer Celebration @ Heritage                                    Park Landing   7/3/09    St. Louis, MO         Live on the Levee @ St. Louis Riverfront   7/4/09    Sioux City, IA        Saturday in the Park Festival   7/6/09    Cincinnati, OH        PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center w/                                    Augustana   7/8/09   Rochester Hills, MI    Meadow Brook Music Festival w/ Augustana   7/9/09   Sarnia, ON             Sarnia Bayfest Festival   7/11/09  Minneapolis, MN        Basilica Block Party   7/16/09  Redmond, WA            Marymoor Amphitheater w/ Augustana   7/17/09  Goldendale, WA         Maryhill Winery w/ Augustana   7/19/09  Friant, CA             Table Mountain Casino w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   7/21/09  Los Angeles, CA        Greek Theatre w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   7/26/09  Berkeley, CA           Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley w/ Augustana                                    plus special guests   7/29/09  Morrison, CO           Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Augustana plus                                    special guests   8/1/09   Houston, TX            The Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park                                    w/ Michael Franti & Spearhead and                                    Augustana   8/3/09   Austin, TX             Austin Music Hall w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/4/09   Grand Prairie, TX      Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie w/ Michael                                    Franti & Spearhead and Augustana   8/6/09   Biloxi, MS             Beau Rivage Theatre w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/7/09   Orange Beach, AL       The Amphitheater at The Wharf w/ Michael                                    Franti & Spearhead and Augustana   8/8/09   Tunica, MS             Harrah's Casino Tunica - Events Center w/                                    Augustana   8/11/09  Nashville, TN          Ryman Auditorium w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/12/09  Atlanta, GA            Chastain Park Amphitheatre w/ Michael                                    Franti & Spearhead and Augustana   8/14/09  St. Augustine, FL      St. Augustine Amphitheatre w/ Michael                                    Franti & Spearhead and Augustana   8/15/09  Orlando, FL            Hard Rock Live w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/17/09  Clearwater, FL         Ruth Eckerd Hall w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/18/09  Miami, FL              Bayfront Amphitheatre w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/20/09  N. Myrtle Beach, SC    House of Blues w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/21/09  Charlotte, NC          The Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music                                    Factory w/ Michael Franti & Spearhead                                    and Augustana   8/26/09  Red Bank, NJ           Count Basie Theatre w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/28/09  Atlantic City, NJ      Borgata Resort Spa and Casino Event Center                                    w/ Michael Franti & Spearhead and                                    Augustana   8/29/09  Uncasville, CT         Mohegan Sun Arena w/ Michael Franti &                                    Spearhead and Augustana   8/31/09  Boston, MA             Bank of America Pavilion w/ Augustana plus                                    special guests   9/3/09   New York, NY           Rumsey Playfield at Central Park                                    Summerstage w/ Michael Franti & Spearhead                                    and Augustana   9/5/09   Columbia, MD           Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Michael                                    Franti & Spearhead and Augustana   9/6/09   Canandaigua, NY        Constellation Performing Arts Center w/                                    Augustana    For tickets and on sale info for the tour visit www.countingcrows.com  

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CONTACT: For info on Counting Crows, Lauren Auslander,
Lauren.Auslander@pmkhbh.com, or Bianca Bianconi, Bianca.Bianconi@pmkhbh.com,
both of PMK-HBH Public Relations, +1-212-582-1111; or For info on Michael
Franti & Spearhead, Paul Freundlich of PFA, paulf@pfamedia.net,
+1-212-334-6116; or For more info on Augustana, Alexandra Dunne of Sony Music,
Alexandra.Dunne@sonymusic.com, +1-212-833-5429

Web Site: http://www.countingcrows.com/

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