Advance ticket sales for the Sufjan Stevens and My Brightest Diamond tour are going fast! Some concerts advance tickets have sold out and some new dates have been added.

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Advance tickets are now sold-out for : New York, Vancouver, San francisco, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis.
Limited advance tickets are still available for : Atlanta, Nashville, Chapel hill, Seattle and Milwaukee.
Advance tickets to go on sale for : Portland, Chicago and Philadelphia at 1PM Thursday, July 13th
For the first time in over a year, Sufjan Stevens is going on tour, bringing with him a talented group of musicians and friends including a small string ensemble and brass section.  They will perform a repertoire of familiar songs from Seven Swans, Michigan and Illinois in a new symphonic context. The tour will bring Sufjan and his ensemble to some of the country’s finest theaters, including Nashville’s esteemed Ryman and Los Angeles’ historic Wiltern.

Supporting the tour will be My Brightest Diamond, a moniker for the talented singer-songwriter Shara Worden. Shara has toured extensively in Sufjan’s band, appears on his recordings, and is often his right-hand woman. Shara is also a close friend, creative peer and Brooklyn neighbor to Sufjan.

The pomp and pageantry of the previous Illinoismakers tour will be augmented by a nuance, mastery and sophistication of talented new players. But don’t expect to see any cheerleading uniforms or routines. Suit coats, neckties and corsages might be more appropriate; but we aren’t about to issue a dress code.

Sufjan would also like to take this opportunity on tour to debut a few new pieces.

Are you "On the Hatch?" Have you "Met Your Match?" Then maybe you should try THE AVALANCHE, Sufjan’s symphonic answer to those summer time blues. The days are only getting shorter. Why waste it on beach balls and tan lines and sand in your swimming shorts? What is The Avalanche anyway? The refreshing winter air, the snowy bliss, the downhill skiers and Coors Light TV commercials? No! It’s all the musical debris, the outtakes and extras, the soundscapes and folk songs, the electronic experiments, the notey woodwinds, the brassy choruses, the pomp and pageantry, scrupulously sifted from everyone’s favorite "that’s-so-last-year" album ILLINOIS.

Listen to the album [here].Do you like the song "Chicago" enough to hear it deconstructed three times over the course of a single album? Oh, that’s not your idea of a good time? What about a disco-jazz ode (in 7/8) to the Supercomputer hosted at the University of Illinois, Champaigne-Urbana? Ok, not your cup of tea? What about smarty pants Saul Bellow or the man who discovered Pluto or Ann Landers and her estranged sister Dear Abby? We strongly urge drivers to hum a line from the title track whenever they catch sight of an actual Chevy Avalanche truck. If you don’t know what it looks like, catch a glimpse [here]. Wow! What an elegant eyesore! Designed by a six-year-old boy! It’s a toy truck the size of a small house! The Avalanche comes in many shapes and sizes, in many color schemes, with or without plastic bumpers. We strongly urge you to buy a copy [here]. In other news, Sufjan Stevens has announced a tour, not in support of the Avalanche, but in support of [LIFE ITSELF].