Shabazz Palaces Announce North American Tour, Play Toronto, Montreal

BY Gregory AdamsPublished Jan 30, 2012

Left-field hip-hop project Shabazz Palaces wowed West Coast audiences last summer with a "high-flying set," and the duo will get a chance to display their skills further east on their upcoming North American tour.

A stretch of dates have just been unveiled, with the outfit heading over to Europe for a few weeks in February before returning to North America for a spring jaunt. Canadian dates include stops at Lee's Palace in Toronto on April 10, and the following night at Montreal's Il Motore. You can check out the schedule below, as well as Shabazz Palaces' new video for Black Up cut "Are You... Can You...Were You? (Felt)."

Tour dates:

2/2 San Francisco, CA - Yoshi's Jazz Club

2/18 Roubaix, France - La Cave aux Poetes

2/19 Nantes, France - Stereolux

2/20 Metz, France - Les Trinitaires

2/21 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie Club

2/24 St Gallen, Switzerland - Palace

2/25 Zurich, Switzerland - Stall 6

2/29 Turin, Italy - Astoria

3/1 Rome, Italy - Circolo degli Artisti

3/2 Ravenna, Italy - Bronson

3/3 Vigonovo (Venice), Italy - Studio 2
 
4/3 Minneapolis, MN - The Whole

4/4 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet

4/5 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall

4/6 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick

4/7 Gambier, OH - The Horn Gallery

4/8 East Liberty, PA - The Shadow Lounge

4/10 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace

4/11 Montreal, QC - II Motore

4/12 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse

4/13 New York, NY - SOB's 

4/14 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl

4/25 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's

 

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