Headlining trek will support Dance Fever

Florence + the Machine are set to play an extended run of headline dates later this year, kicking off September 2nd in Montreal with further stops including New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and many more. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.

Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg will join as support on select dates throughout the tour.

American Express Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Tuesday, March 29th at 10 am local time through Thursday, March 31st at 10 pm local time.

The tour will celebrate the release of Florence Welch’s forthcoming, highly anticipated fifth album Dance Fever, out May 13th. Florence has shared three songs from the album — “My Love,” “King” and “Heaven is Here” — all of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde with choreography by Ryan Heffington.

Additionally, Florence will play two very special, intimate shows this spring: April 29th in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and May 6th at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York — both shows sold out in seconds.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown — clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness — and the hope of reunions to come.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people — sometimes thousands — danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance — a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety — with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived to New York in March 2020 to begin recording when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as “Nick Cave at the club.” Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar.

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.

Dance Fever was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.

Florence + The Machine 2022 North American Tour:

Apr 29 – Los Angeles @ Los Angeles Theatre
May 6 – New York City @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Sept 2 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell
Sept 3 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
Sept 7 – Chicago @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Sept 8 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
Sept 10 – Clarkson, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theater
Sept 12 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
Sept 14 – Boston @ TD Garden
Sept 16 – New York City @ Madison Square Garden
Sept 20 – Nashville @ Ascend Amphitheater
Sept 21 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Sept 23 – Orlando @ Amway Center
Sept 24 – Miami @ FTX Arena
Sept 27 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
Sept 28 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Oct 1 – Denver @ Ball Arena
Oct 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
Oct 6 – Seattle @ Climate Pledge Arena
Oct 7 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds
Oct 9 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Oct 12 – San Diego @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
Oct 14 – Los Angeles @ Hollywood Bowl