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Blitzen Trapper Announce Tour + New Video

Sub Pop road warriors Blitzen Trapper have scheduled a ton of summer dates in support of their latest release, American Goldwing.  The tour, which kicks-off at Sasquatch Festival in George, WA on May 26, will wrap up at Pickathon in Happy Valley, OR on August 5.

Blitzen Trapper will release a new single for Record Store Day. The “Hey Joe”/”Skirts On Fire” 7” single will be available in a limited edition run of 1800 and on yellow vinyl. Meanwhile, American Goldwing track, “Stranger in A Strange Land” is now the subject of a new video. The clip features landscapes found in Nome Alaska where there are no indigenous trees or mountains within plain sight. Film maker Luke Norby along with the help of Blitzen Trapper drummer Brian Koch compiled a series Norby’s incidental shots including shivery hand held pans in 20 below zero conditions and segments from a sweeping driving shot that Norby shot from the back of a truck in 2010.

Tour Dates:
Apr. 28 – Silverton, OR – Oregon Garden Brewfest
May 26 – George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival
May 29 – Denver, CO – Bluebird
May 30 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre
May 31 – Kansas City, MO – Riot Room
Jun. 01 – Ozark, AR – Wakarusa Festival
Jun. 02 - Oklahoma City, OK – ACM@UCO Performance Lab
Jun. 04 – Santa Fe, NM – Sol Santa Fe
Jun. 05 – Flagstaff, AZ – The Green Room
Jun. 06 – Pioneertown, CA –  Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown
Jun. 09 – Petaluma, CA – Mystic Theatre
Jun. 25 – Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre*
Jun. 26 – Boise, ID – Idaho Botanical Garden Outlaw Field*
Jun. 28 – Missoula, MT – Big Sky Brewing Company*
Jul. 01 – Duluth, MN – Bayfront Festival Park*
Jul. 02 – Rochester, MN – Mayo Civic Center Auditorium*
Jul. 05 – Victor, ID – Victor City Park Thursday Music on Main Series
Jul 07 – Winnipeg, MB – Folk Festival
Jul. 08 - Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Jul. 09 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Jul. 13 – South Burlington, VT -  Higher Ground
Jul. 14 – New York, NY  - Stuyvesant Town Oval “Music On The Oval Series” *FREE SHOW
Jul. 15 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Jul. 17 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere
Jul. 27 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
Aug. 03-05 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon Festival

 *with Wilco