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ICYMI Hootie & The Blowfish Reunion Tour Coming To The Woodlands
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THE WOODLANDS, TX —Hootie & the Blowfish, the Grammy-winning '90s rock band with mega-hits including "Hold My Hand," "Let Her Cry" and "Only Wanna Be With You," is getting back together for a new album and they are bringing their summer tour to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands.
The 2019 "Group Therapy Tour" will travel to dozens of cities and will feature a special guest — the Barenaked Ladies.
The tour begins May 30 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It will also head to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City and Nashville, Tennessee before ending in Columbia, South Carolina, on Sept. 13.
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Tickets go on sale to the general public in December, though pre-sales are already available for Citi card members and Hootie fan club members.
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The band told NBC's "Today" show in December they're making a thank-you album for the fans. They've already begun writing songs.
"For us, making a record is fun. But we're not doing it for us. We're doing it for all those people who used to plan their vacations around the Hootie & the Blowfish tour," said frontman Darius Rucker. The band wrote in an Instagram post that it's "time to celebrate."
The band members met as students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Hootie hit it big in 1994 with the album "Cracked Rear View," which has been certified 21-times platinum, according to The Associated Press. The album even earned a spot on the Recording Industry Association of America's top-10 most popular albums ever.
Since then, the band has put out five studio albums and some live albums, with the most recent coming in 2006. They haven't toured in more than a decade.
Rucker, who has earned solo fame with country music hits such as "Wagon Wheel," told AP "nothing has changed." They're the same band, he said. "just older now."
"There's a lot less alcohol," he told AP.
Hootie played a reunion concert in Atlanta last summer followed by two more shows, one in Clarkston, Michigan, and another New York City.
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