Best New Artist GRAMMY nominees Tank and The Bangas will take their lauded live shows back on the road this fall. The run of North American dates kicks off in Raleigh on August 20 and includes shows at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl and New Orleans’ Tipitina’s as well as festival appearances at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Park City Song Summit 2021, Sea.Hear.Now Festival 2021 and Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2021.
The band’s latest EP Friend Goals, which is out now on Verve Forecast, continues to receive critical praise. Says The New Yorker, “Lead singer Tank has an elastic, surprising voice that oozes energy, turning simple lyrics into full stories just with a twist of the syllables; perhaps it shouldn’t be so unexpected, given her background as a slam poet.”
The new record includes numerous musical contributions from various friends the band has made throughout their career including CHIKA, Duckwrth, and PJ Morton as well as a number of New Orleans-based creatives.
The EP follows the release of the New Orleans-based band’s major label debut, Green Balloon, which arrived in 2019 to widespread critical praise.
Tank and The Bangas Tour Dates:
August 20—Raleigh, NC—North Carolina Museum Of Art
August 21—Sugar Hill, GA—The Bowl at Sugar Hill
August 28—New Orleans, LA—Tipitina’s Uptown
September 8—Park City, UT—Park City Song Summit 2021
September 11—Milwaukee, WI—Summerfest 2021
September 12—Indianapolis, IN—HI-FI Annex
September 14—Holyoke, MA—Gateway City Arts
September 15—Pawling, NY—Daryl’s House
September 17—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Bowl
September 18—Bethlehem, PA—Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks
September 19—Asbury Park, NJ—Sea.Hear.Now Festival 2021
September 21—Columbus, OH—Skullys Music Diner
September 22—Ann Arbor, MI—Blind Pig
September 24—Urbana, IL—Pygmalion Festival
September 25—Franklin, TN—Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2021
September 28—Oxford, MS—Proud Larry’s
September 29—Little Rock, AR—Revolution Music Room
October 2—New Orleans, LA—Historic French Quarter
October 8–10—New Orleans, LA—New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
October 29—Like Oak, FL—Hulaween
January 17—Quintana Roo, Mexico—Hard Rock Hotel
