The Dave Matthews Band is returning to Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center this summer.
The group — which recently made the shortlist for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction — will bring their 2020 summer North American tour to Riverbend on June 24.
Tickets for the concert won’t go on sale to the general public until Feb. 21, but members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association can get in on a presale beginning tomorrow (Jan. 23) at 10 a.m. via warehouse.davematthewsband.com.
For the tour, the Dave Matthews Band is partnering with The Dreaming Tree Wines and DocuSign to assist The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign. From the tour press release:
Dave Matthews Band is committing to help plant one million trees as a collective effort with The Dreaming Tree Wines and DocuSign. The band invites concertgoers to join them in this mission by contributing an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For further details, visit plantabillion.org/DMB. This year’s annual eco-village will feature a heavy emphasis on the tree-planting campaign. Tour greening efforts and the eco-village are in partnership with DocuSign and REVERB.
DMB will also be giving back to the environment in relation to the carbon emissions that are associated with their touring this year:
Dave Matthews Band, who was named a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, will be neutralizing the biggest contributor to a concert’s carbon footprint – fan travel. In addition to the band’s footprint, REVERB will be calculating the carbon footprint associated with fan travel to DMB shows in 2020 and the band will be neutralizing these emissions by supporting carbon reduction projects. The band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint and neutralizing tour carbon emissions from flights, busses and trucks, hotel stays and venue energy use going back to their first shows in 1991.
Evidence of the loyalty of DMB’s vast fanbase was on display recently when they
handily won the “Fan Vote” poll that is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction process. After rallying DMB to the top of the polling — where they scored 1,005,657 votes, over 123,000 more than runner-up Pat Benatar — the group became the first act to win the Fan Vote but not induction. Since the poll was introduced, winners like Rush, Chicago, Journey and Def Leppard have all made it into the Hall.
Though many fans were infuriated, Matthews and Co. were typically chill about the snub.
Congratulations to our fellow nominees that will be inducted into the @rockhall in 2020. We want to express gratitude for all of our amazing fans and their support. We reached over a million fan votes! Thank you!
https://t.co/VMIMls7SBS pic.twitter.com/GQMF7L4ci7— dave matthews band (@davematthewsbnd) January 15, 2020
This article appears in Jan 22 – Feb 4, 2020.