[CANCELLED: August 17, 2021] The Decemberists: 20 Years Before the Mast [rescheduled from August 18, 2020]
On March 17, The Decemberists officially cancelled this tour. I had SUCH GOOD SEATS FOR THIS SHOW!!!! If They are cancelling a show in August, it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the summer.
* Tour Update * We were really hoping against hope to be able to bring this 20th/21st anniversary show on the road this summer. And while there’s every reason to be optimistic about the state of the pandemic and the possibility of live shows in the future, we don’t think it’s going to happen in July and August of this year. There’s so much uncertainty about playing these shows safely, especially the indoor ones, that we thought the best decision is to cancel. Yeah, we’re bummed. Refunds are available now at point of purchase. We plan on touring next summer; whether that will be in the vein of a similar tour or something new altogether, it’s too soon to say. We promise to be out there again, seeing all your shining, singing faces — covered or uncovered. In the meantime, we’re putting together a different kind of anniversary celebration, and we’ll be in touch on that soon. Yours, The Decemberists
I’ve been a fan of The Decemberists for years and I am surprised by how few times I’ve seen them. We were supposed to see them two years ago and then Colin Meloy’s voice went out just in time for our show, so that was cancelled.
I was surprised that this tour didn’t include a stop in Red Bank, but a show at the Met in Philly is almost as good.
I was really really hoping that this show wouldn’t be postponed–it seemed like a milestone date somehow. Plus, I had AMAZING seats. Fortunately, the show was postponed to exactly a year minus a day away (as many shows tend to be) and my amazing seats are still good.
Here’s their official word on the postponement from May 27:
Adored Mailing List Recipients,
As you might remember from previous emails, there was some discussion over whether or not 2020 was *in fact* the 20th Anniversary of The Decemberists. Did the band start out in 2000? Or was 2001 our proper debut? There are recollections of Decemberists shows happening in 2000 in some form, and yet our first website and logo proclaimed us “Est. 2001” — for reasons lost to time. Well, we’re happy to report that that controversy is settled once and for all, and it only took a global pandemic to do so.
And so: Twenty Years Before the Mast, The Decemberists’ 20th Anniversary Tour will be coming to your town in the summer of 2021, not this summer.
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