Band of Horses gallops through spring

Indie-rockers Band of Horses have mapped a late-spring headlining trek that includes a special all-acoustic performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The outing, which also features an April 18 appearance at Southern California's Coachella Festival, kicks off April 15 in Santa Cruz, CA. The Carnegie Hall concert is set for June 11, with a series of dates in the Southern US rounding out the 10-city schedule. Details are below.

"Cease to Begin," the band's second album--and the first since the departure of founding member and guitarist Mat Brooke--surfaced in late 2007. The set debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell told a Rolling Stone interviewer last year that he'd written "about 27 songs" for a follow-up to "Cease to Begin," and was planning on entering a studio with the band last fall to record some of them.

Bridwell and Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004 out of the ashes of their previous band, Carissa's Weird, which released three indie-label albums. Already well known in Seattle indie circles, the duo signed with Sub Pop and toured extensively with Iron & Wine and Okkervil River before cutting their debut album.

Brooke left the band in 2007 to concentrate on his other going concern, indie rockers Grand Archives, who released their self-titled Sub Pop debut last year.

TOUR DATES
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April 2009
15 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Club
17 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
18 - Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music Festival

June 2009
10 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
11 - New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
12 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
14 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
16 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
17 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theater
18 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues


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