Team Phish has spent much time in the Coachella Valley as of late, so much that folks in Indio have been referring to the Empire Polo Club as "Little Vermont." They also call raisins "sun grapes," which is just weird.

Seriously though, within the next week, the planning and mapmaking and drawing of the past several months gives way to building and transforming the site, at last, into Festival 8. Back on the East Coast, the band is deep in rehearsals; working on the Halloween Set, as well as the Acoustic set planned for Sunday morning at the festival.

While there are far too many great elements in the works for the festival to share in this space, we'll highlight a few of them here:

THE OVERLOOK + THE COIL - Right at the entrance to the concert field is an elevated area partially covered by spectacular Olympic Peak Tents that looks out onto the lush concert field. Here at the Overlook you'll get the chance to enjoy a particularly bloody mary at the Bloody Mary Bar, a movie area showing vintage Halloween classics, archival Phish video, (not to mention The World Series and NFL games), a massive 100 foot Ferris Wheel and an internet cafe (though wi-fi will be provided throughout the site). The Overlook will be opened from 8 am to 2 am each day of the festival, and will also be open Thursday, October 29, beginning after Soundcheck. Between The Overlook and the stage you'll find The Coil, a large swirled structure where Festival 8 turns and returns, host to multiple art installations and interactive works galore. When the sun goes down, look on the outskirts of The Coil for an explosive group of fire artists bringing the HEAT (that has TWO meanings!).

THE HOUSE OF LIVE PHISH - It's back for Festival 8 with a nice twist. Get out of the heat, the House Of Live Phish will be air conditioned! Think you can do a better job mixing Phish? The House will feature mix-your-own-track stations complete with skilled instructors from ProMedia, and you'll be able to re-mix tracks from this Summer's Tour while drinking a Shasta (Wait, scratch that last part -- Shasta's just pulled out). Final racks will be uploaded to a blog at livephish.com for everyone's listening pleasure.

Also, everyone who visits the House of Live Phish will receive a free card redeemable for a Live Phish Summer 09 Sampler. Download and burn your own sampler onto CD using a Mac from our buddies at Small Dog Electronics in Vermont, or just enjoy listening to any of the songs at LivePhish.com on a Sonos listening station.

We're also making each show from the weekend available on slotMusic micro SD cards, so that you can grab them on your way out of the concert field and listen back right away. Each card comes with a USB sleeve ensuring interoperability with all computers as well a microSD-enabled mobile phones and MP3 players. Listen to the concert on your way back to your campsite (you will never not be listening to Phish. Get used to it). Stop by the Phish Dry Goods tent for more details.

BEER! CERVEZA! BIER! BIERE! PIVO! BIR! - It seems a little silly to tout that there will be beer for sale at Festival 8. Worthy of mention is there will be over 50 different kinds of beer for sale - microbrews, 'beers of the world', Pabst Blue Ribbon, and our friends at Sierra Nevada have brewed a special pilsner exclusively available at Festival 8 called FOAM.

KURODA KNOWS HOW TO LIGHT A PALM OR TWO OR THREE - In addition to his usual duties behind the console, lighting designer Chris Kuroda is overseeing lighting throughout the site - at the entrances, in The Overlook, on the field. You'll never see a more stunning collection of 140 lit palm trees. That's the Kuroda Promise.

THE RETURN OF THE BUNNY 95.9 FM - Like a zombie in need of nourishing brains, The Bunny is back! Once again, we'll be hopping around all weekend in a little trailer behind the stage, dishing out large quantities of killer music, up-to-the-minute traffic reports, festival updates, insightful interviews from the field, a dangerous triple session of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro's "From the Archives" shows, frightening late-night freak outs, subliminal messages, Dr. Demento outtakes, sound effects of doors closing, classic Jerky Boys tracks, white noise, Civil War dirges, Jewish fight songs, and of course, live broadcasts of all 8 Phish sets! If you get lost in The Coil or tied up at the Overlook Hotel, have no fear: The Bunny will be there for you, airing 24 hours a day beginning Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM right on through until Monday, November 2 at 10 AM. Now, if you happen to tune in before or after these times and hear a rock-block of Billy Joel, don't be afraid: that's just JACK-FM, the rock station we'll be hijacking for the weekend. So be prepared: bring a boombox! Let The Bunny feed (on) your brain.

EIGHTH ANNUAL SCENT OF A MULE HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT - Got your costume picked out, tent packed, sunscreen, candy small beach towel and anti-grizzly spray ready to go? Well, how's your pitching arm?

We're tickled to announce the Eighth Annual "Scent Of A Mule Horseshoe Pitching Tournament" at Festival 8. Located in the concert field, the horseshoe pitching courts will be open for practice swings on Friday with the tournament taking place on Saturday and Sunday. East Coast vs. West Coast. It's an easy sport to pick up so come and try your luck and get pointers from the good folks from the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America.

COFFEE & DONUTS ACOUSTIC. I ATE - A team of physicists have been working on fusing two different spheres of doughy goodness into one coherent form that retains its integrity after an aqueuous sugar coating has been applied. That's right - those Sunday morning donuts will be commemoratively shaped in a figure eight, and glazed. We did it, America!

FESTIVAL CERTIFIED FARMER'S MARKET - On Friday, Saturday and Sunday we'll dish out a Certified Farmer's Market (meaning that all the farmers participating have certification that their produce is in fact grown in California) that will feature organic and transitional produce, honey, cheese, eggs, bread, pumpkins, wheatgrass, fresh cut flowers, nuts, and California-grown olive oil. You haven't lived until you've tried certified, California-grown wheatgrass - let me tell you! Organic coffee, breakfast, and lunch will be available at the cafe located adjacent to the Farmer's Market at the El Dorado Clubhouse.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW - Tickets for Festival 8 are on sale now at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/.

Public on sale dates for Phish's 3-night Madison Square Garden run, and 2-night Cincinnati run have been changed, so be sure to take note. Tickets for all three MSG shows will now go on sale to the public on Friday, October 23rd at 11am EST, and both Cincinnati shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, October 24th at 11am EST.

A limited number of tickets for ALL 2009 Fall Tour date are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end tomorrow, Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

For full show and ticketing information, click here.

We're excited to announce Phish's 2009 Fall Tour, beginning November 18th in Detroit, MI and ending December 5th in Charlottesville, VA. Stops along the way include a few double-headers in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Albany, and 3-night return to Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, October 23rd, with additional dates going on sale Saturday, October 24th. For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page at Phish.com.

PHISH FALL TOUR 2009

11.18.09 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI
11.20.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
11.21.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
11.22.09 War Memorial at Oncenter , Syracuse, NY
11.24.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
11.25.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
11.27.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
11.28.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
11.29.09 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
12.02.09 Madison Square Garden , New York, NY
12.03.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
12.04.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
12.05.09 John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA

Join The WaterWheel Foundation in attaining at total of 8,000 hours of volunteer service and be entered to win some great prizes at Festival 8.

It's easy, just choose to volunteer for a total of 8 hours at a non-profit in your community before the start of the festival. That can mean joining a beach or park clean up for a day, spending a few hours on the weekend lending a hand at your local school, youth club or library, or spending a few afternoons at your local food bank. It's your choice. Then all you have to do is download the official form and fill it out.

Present the form at The WaterWheel tent at Festival 8 and receive a scoop of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, a download code for a LivePhish.com summer sampler and more. You will also be entered to win any of a number of daily drawings for the Joy Box, event merchandise, a years subscription to Relix, a year's supply of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, a Magic Hat Cruiser Bike and other Grand Prizes including autographed event posters and tickets to future Phish concerts.

We are pleased to announce the performance schedule for Festival 8, which will include Phish's first full-length acoustic set. The set will take place at the crack of noon on Sunday morning. Coffee and donuts will be served.

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL 8 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY (10/30)

4:00PM Concert field opens
7:30PM Set 1
10:00PM Set 2

SATURDAY (10/31)

12:00PM Concert field opens
3:00PM Set 1
7:30PM The Halloween Set
10:00PM Set 3

SUNDAY (11/01)

10:00AM Concert field opens
12:00PM Acoustic Set
5:30PM Set 2
8:30PM Set 3

With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. The band will play eight sets over the course of three days, and as with all past Phish festivals, fans will enjoy on-site camping, numerous attractions and art installations throughout the weekend.

Tickets are ON SALE NOW at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/

We're less than a week away from the release of Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years, which will be in stores THIS TUESDAY, September 8th!

Joy is available on CD, and also as part of the Joy Box, a Limited Edition deluxe version and on 180 gram vinyl. The super deluxe Joy Box, which is available only at Phish Dry Goods, includes a complete second album entitled Party Time, a hard-bound book, posters, and live DVD.

The DVD features live performances from the first half of Phish's summer 2009 tour - including footage from the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Summer Tour's opening show at Fenway Park in Boston with fully remixed (from the band's multitrack recordings) and mastered audio.

Joy: THE DVD (from Joy Box)

1. Time Turns Elastic (16:34) - 5/31/09 Boston, MA
2. Sugar Shack (4:52) - 6/7/09 Camden, NJ
3. Joy (5:08) - 6/7/09 Camden, NJ
4. Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan (5:03) - 6/12/09 Manchester, TN
5. Alaska (7:37) - 6/12/09 Manchester, TN
6. Light (12:30) - 6/14/09 Manchester, TN
7. Ocelot (9:32) - 6/19/09 Noblesville, IN
8. Backwards Down The Number Line (7:44) - 6/19/09 Noblesville, IN
9. Kill Devil Falls (8:09) - 6/20/09 East Troy, WI

The Joy Box will ship in early October, but you can pre-order today. Since this box will not ship until after the album's release date, everyone who pre-orders the Joy Box by this Monday, September 7th at 4PM ET will receive a free MP3 download of the entire album (10 tracks) on the September 8th release date.

Tune into NPR's Morning Edition tomorrow, Friday, September 4th for a feature on Phish, which will include new interviews with Trey and Page. To find your local NPR member station, please visit http://www.npr.org

Last week, Phish's "Backwards Down The Number Line" from Joy was featured as NPR's Song Of The Day. If you missed it, you can re-listen here.

You can stream Joy in its entirety now at Phish's MySpace page. Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will be in stores this Tuesday, September 8th.

A limited number of tickets at the $80 level have been released to the public for Trey Anastasio's upcoming performance with the New York Philharmonic. Trey will join conductor Asher Fisch and the New York Philharmonic for orchestrations of classic Phish and Trey songs and the New York premiere of his composition "Time Turns Elastic" at 8p.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Carnegie Hall. The evening's performance will serve as a benefit for for the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund.

The program will feature classic Phish songs and solo Trey compositions, as well as the New York premiere of Time Turns Elastic, co-composed by Anastasio and long-time collaborator Don Hart. Tickets can be purchased at http://carnegiehall.org or by calling Carnegie Charge at 212-247-7800. Tickets may also be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue.

Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will be in stores September 8th. Joy is available on CD, and also as part of the Joy Box, a Limited Edition deluxe version. We're also pressing the album on 180g Vinyl, for people who understand what that means.

Everyone who pre-orders Joy from Phish Dry Goods will be automatically entered to win a travel package to Festival 8, Phish's upcoming Halloween festival in Indio, California, including air-fare, a 3-night hotel stay, Two (2) 3-day Passes and 24 Hour Shuttle Transportation all weekend between the hotel and festival site. Click here for full contest rules.

The super deluxe Joy Box, which is available only at Phish Dry Goods, includes a complete second album entitled Party Time, as well as a DVD, hard-bound book, posters, and more.

The tracklisting for "Party Time" is as follows:

Party Time (2:43)
Alaska (7:16)
Windy City (5:20)
In A Misty Glade (2:51)
Gone (4:10)
Only A Dream (4:10)
The Birdwatcher (2:16)
Let Me Lie (3:57)
If I Told You (3:53)
Splinters Of Hail (3:33)
Can't Come Back (4:38)
Shrine (1:54)
Liquid Time (4:23)

The Joy Box will ship in early October, but you can pre-order today. Since this box will not ship until after the album's release date, everyone who pre-orders the Joy Box will receive a free MP3 download of the entire album (10 tracks) on the September 8th release date.

Attention all wanna-be designers and graphic artists: design a T-shirt for "Festival 8", the band's upcoming three-day Halloween festival in southern California and you could be the lucky winner of two tickets to the event. You'll also receive five of the winning shirts and the pleasure of your design commemorating Phish's spectacular Halloween weekend.

Submissions must be sent digitally (JPEGs only, under 2 megabytes please, but the art can be compressed for submission purposes) to festival8contest@phish.com . All submissions must be received by Friday, September 11 at NOON EST. Be sure to include your full name and a way to reach you by phone day and evening. While it's not necessary, we suggest that you put the words "Phish" and "Festival 8" somewhere on your design. However, you may not use any pre-existing Phish or "Festival 8" logos in your design. Both front and back designs are welcome, but not necessary -- just a front will suffice as an entry. The use of Comic Sans or Curlz will automatically disqualify you. By entering the contest, you acknowledge full and unconditional acceptance and agreement of the Contest Rules: click here for Contest Rules.

Festival 8, a three-day Phish festival will take place on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. And for the first time ever, Phish will combine two of its most cherished traditions - a multi-day camping festival and performing on Halloween - in a glorious three-day celebration.

Tickets for Festival 8 are on sale now at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/. Complete information, including a listing of different travel packages, is available at now at http://www.phish.com/festival8.

Mike spent two months working alone, all day, every weekday, playing all the parts, when he wrote and recorded Andelmans' Yard from his album The Green Sparrow. Here is a secret porthole into the process. To find the ten examples, you will navigate through an online scavenger hunt. You'll have access to the original demo, practice runs, guitar lick mastering, keyboard choices and more. The deeper you get, the more you'll hear. Welcome to, if you will, the Andelmans' Yardsale.

Mike Gordon and his band hit the road in just two weeks for another month-long club tour. Please visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour for complete details and ticketing info. Tickets for all shows are ON SALE NOW.

Trey Anastasio will join Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for orchestrations of classic Phish tunes and the East Coast premiere of his composition Time Turns Elastic at 8p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

Tickets will be available through a real time pre-sale beginning Thursday, February 19th at 5pm (Eastern Time) and ending Friday, February 27th at Noon (Eastern Time) at http://treytickets.rlc.net . Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, February 28th at noon (Eastern Time). Audio taping tickets will not be sold for this event.For more information, visit Trey.com.

On October 16, Trey will embark on an eight show Fall Tour with Classic TAB band mates Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis and Ray Paczkowski. Opening with a performance at the historic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, the tour stops at some familiar northeast venues including a benefit show for Seven Below Arts Initiative at the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT before closing at The National in Richmond, VA. See Below for a full list of dates.

Tickets will be available through a real time presale beginning Friday, September 5th at 10:00am (Eastern Time) and ending Thursday, September 11th at 5:00pm (Eastern Time) at http://treytickets.rlc.net
Public onsales start Friday, September 12th.

For more information, visit Trey.com

Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB
"Northern Exposure" Tour 2008

10/16 Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY
10/17 Chevrolet Theatre - Wallingford, CT
10/18 Palace Theatre - Albany, NY
10/19 Higher Ground - Burlington, VT *benefit for Seven Below Arts Initiative*
10/21 Lupo's - Providence, RI
10/23 The Orpheum - Boston, MA
10/24 Electric Facory - Philadelphia, PA
10/25 The National - Richmond, VA

Mike's new album, The Green Sparrow, which hits stores August 5th, is available now for pre-order on CD and a Limited Edition pressing on 180g audiophile quality Green Vinyl.

Every single person who pre-orders the CD from Mike's Online Store or Phish Dry Goods will receive an autographed copy and will be entered to win a chance to hang out with Mike!

One Grand Prize Winner will be the beneficiary of two tickets to any of the shows on Mike's summer tour plus a bona fide Rendez-Mike™: A bass lesson, chess game, a vegetarian feast, it's your call. We'll finalize time and location with the lucky winner. 10 Runner ups will receive a copy of The Green Sparrow on vinyl, signed by Mike.

Recorded at Mike's home studio in Vermont and mixed at The Barn, The Green Sparrow features special guests Chuck Leavell, Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann, Ivan Neville and horn players from Antibalas.

From the deeply rooted funk of "Radar Blip" to the rousing intricacies of "Andelmans' Yard," from the spirited rock of "Traveled Too Far" to the punch of "Another Door," The Green Sparrow is a playful album from an artist who continually reveals new layers of far-reaching invention.

To allow fans to save on shipping (when purchasing both Phish's Walnut Creek pre-order items and Mike's Green Sparrow items), we've made all combo packages available via Phish Dry Goods. Click here to pre-order today.

The Green Sparrow Tracklisting
1. Another Door
2. Voices
3. Dig Further Down
4. Pretend
5. Traveled Too Far
6. Andelmans' Yard
7. Radar Blip
8. Morphing Again
9. Jaded
10. Sound

Trey will perform solo acoustic at the inaugural Rothbury Festival on Sunday July 6. Other confirmed artists include Phil and Friends, Primus, Dave Matthews Band, Medeski Martin and Wood as well as a long list of additional acts. For a full festival lineup, tickets and information about Rothbury's commitment to be an environmentally sustainable event, visit the Rothbury Festival website.

Trey will make his debut appearance at the Newport Folk Festival this August as part of the 49th annual festival in Newport, RI. Playing a full acoustic set, it will be his first full performance in 17 months. Other confirmed artists include Richie Havens, Gillian Welch, Levon Helm and Jimmy Buffett. For a full festival lineup and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.newportfolk.com.

Original Boardwalk Style, a live album from Trey Anastasio and the Undectet, will be released on June 10th on Trey's own Rubber Jungle Records. Proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit the Seven Below Arts Initiative, established by Trey in 2006 to foster artistic development and support arts education in the state of Vermont.

The album was recorded at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, NJ on December 30th and 31st of 2006, coming at the end of the band's holiday tour. The raw energy of a well-oiled band at the top of its game permeated the set as the composer/vocalist/guitarist led The Undectet - comprised of Tony Hall (bass, vocals), Ray Paczkowski (keyboards), Jeff Sipe (drums), Christina Durfee (vocals, synthesizer), Jennifer Hartswick (vocals, trumpet), Peter Apfelbaum (saxophone, flute), Russell Remington (saxophone, flute), Jeff Cressman (trombone), Dave Grippo (saxophone) and Cyro Baptista (percussion) - through electrifying big band arrangements of his classic songs, replete with big horns and dazzling Brazilian percussive stylings.

Original Boardwalk Style features over 75 minutes of music, remixed from the multitrack masters by Trey and Ben Collette at Rubber Jungle Studios and mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering. In addition to CD and digital download formats, the album will be available as a double-gatefold, audiophile grade 180-gram LP Vinyl pressing.

The album is now available for pre-order as CD and Vinyl Trey's online store as well as digital audio downloads (in both MP3 and FLAC formats) at LivePhish.com. All pre-orders will automatically be entered to win a professionally printed photo - signed by Trey and esteemed photographer Jeff Kravitz - of the band on stage at the House of Blues. Color corrected by Jennifer Brown, it will be framed in barn board crafted by Lars Fisk, a creative contributor to The Barn's Artist-in-Residence program. Ten runners-up will receive autographed copies of the vinyl.

ORIGINAL BOARDWALK STYLE - Live In Atlantic City

1. Drifting
2. Plasma
3. Shine
4. Alive Again
5. Mud City
6. Simple Twist Up Dave
7. Tuesday
8. Money, Love and Change
9. Mr. Completely

Exclusive Digital Bonus Track
10. First Tube

Mike Gordon & Ramble Dove will perform, with special guest appearances by Jon Fishman and Grace Potter, on Friday, June 2nd at Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT. This unique concert event entitled, "Honky Tonk The Vote" will benefit Vermont's Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders in his bid for U.S. Senate.

Tickets for the concert will go on sale online only at http://www.bernie.org beginning at 12:00 PM on April 12, 2006. Tickets are $40.00 general admission. There is a 4 ticket per person limit. The concert begins at 9:00 pm, doors at 8:00 pm.

In addition, a limited number of tickets are available for a pre-concert catered VIP reception with Congressman Sanders and Mike and Fish and Grace in Higher Ground's Showcase Lounge. Tickets for the pre-concert reception is $150.00 general admission and also includes admission to the show. The VIP reception begins at 7:30 pm.

This is an all ages event. For more information please visit http://www.bernie.org

Widely regarded as one of Phish's finest live performances and named one of the "Greatest Concerts of the '90s" by Rolling Stone, Phish celebrates the 10 Year Anniversary of their 12/31/95 performance with the release of "Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 - Live At Madison Square Garden", available now for pre-order at Phish Dry Goods. The Deluxe 3-CD set includes the complete three-set show (27 tracks and more than three and a half hours of music).

Everyone who pre-orders "New Year's Eve 1995" from Dry Goods will be automatically entered into our pre-order contest. The grand prize winner will receive a framed set of all four original, un-torn mail order tickets from the 1995 Holiday Run, designed by Jim Pollock each signed by a band member. Three runners up will each receive an assorted Vermont Gift Basket with New Year's Eve and Vermont goodies. For contest rules or to pick up "New Year's Eve 1995" please visit http://drygoods.phish.com/msg .

In addition to the Deluxe CD set, Dry Goods has a selection of New Year's Eve 1995 merchandise available including a tour T-shirt and Phish Toasting Flutes to help ring in the New Year. Everyone who pre-orders will also receive an exclusive savings-code (emailed separately) that can be redeemed for a holiday discount at Phish Dry Goods.

** Please note, to guarantee delivery on the December 20th release date, you must select the Express shipping option. To guarantee delivery by December 24th, you must select the Standard Expedited shipping option. If you select the Standard shipping option, your package may arrive 7-10 business days after the release date and may not arrive by December 24th.

The Benevento/Russo Duo featuring Mike Gordon have added two new dates in Georgia before their late night Jazzfest appearance at the end of April. The group will be performing at the Georgia Theatre in Athens on Wednesday, April 27th and at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Thursday, April 28th.

Tickets are being offered through Mike Gordon's secure online ticketing system NOW before they go on sale to the public. The Mike Gordon ticket site can be found at http://mikegordontickets.rlc.net

Additional tickets for the Variety Playhouse show will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 11th at 10am at all TicketMaster locations and at the venue box office. Tickets for the Georgia Theater show will go on sale Friday, March 11th at 11am. They will be available at School Kids Records, Junkman's Daughter's Brother, and charge by phone:
706-353-1666.

As a reminder, tickets are nearly sold out for their late-night performance at Twi-Ro-Pa in New Orleans on Saturday, April 30th. Click here to buy tickets.

For more information, visit the Tourdates page or the Duo's website.

Vida Blue's second studio album comes out a week from Tuesday, October 14. "The Illustrated Band" features Page, Russell and Oteil backed by the Spam Allstars throughout. The Allstars, a Miami-based Afro-Cuban sextet, have been playing a monthly residency, "JAMON Y QUESO" at S.O.B's in New York City, which moves from Friday to Monday starting in October.

In celebration of the release of "The Illustrated Band" the next day, Page will sit in with the Allstars for a good part of the show at S.O.B.'s on Monday, October 13. For full show info (tickets are limited), please go to the club's website at http://www.sobs.com/

We're still lining up dates for a Vida Blue tour in early January, but this much we can tell you: Vida Blue featuring the Spam Allstars will kick off their tour with a show in Miami on January 3 (venue to be announced soon). Vida Blue and the Allstars will be joined by very special guests The Jazz Mandolin Project featuring Jon Fishman, who will open the whole tour.

The Illustrated Band is now available for preorder from Phish Dry Goods: http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=92

Phish will play a four-show run beginning Thanksgiving weekend, culminating in a 20th Anniversary performance at Boston's FleetCenter on December 2.

The Boston show comes twenty years to the day of Phish's first performance, at an ROTC dance on the campus of the University of Vermont. While the exact date has been the subject of some dispute over the years, carbon dating, diligent research and a little common sense confirmed that December 2, 1983 was indeed the date of the band's first show.

At the end of December, Phish returns to Florida for a four-night run at American Airlines Arena in Miami, including a three-set New Year's Eve show. The shows are the band's first performances in Florida since their millennium festival at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in 1999.

The eight dates are as follows:

11/28 Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY
11/29 Wachovia Spectrum Philadelphia, PA
12/1 Pepsi Arena Albany, NY
12/2 FleetCenter Boston, MA

12/28 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/29 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/30 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL
12/31 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL

A limited number of tickets for all eight shows are available directly through PHISH TICKET's secure online ticketing system at http://www.phishtickets.rlc.net for a seven-day ordering period beginning Monday, September 22, at 12:01 PM EST and ending Monday, September 29, at 11:59 AM EST. Tickets go on sale to the public October 17 and 18. Full tour information can be found on the now nearly bulletproof Phish web site at http://phish.com/tourdates .

Mike Gordon will play his first-ever solo tour, a 9-date run in support of Inside In, released last month on Ropeadope Records. Kicking off October 5 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, the tour will stop at 8 cities, playing theatres and clubs before concluding on October 16 at New York's Irving Plaza.

The tour will feature a seven piece all-star group handpicked by Gordon that is as eclectic in its instrumentation as it is in personnel. Comprised of longtime Phish collaborators James Harvey on keyboards and Gordon Stone on pedal steel and banjo, as well as trombonist Josh Roseman (Dave Holland, Charlie Hunter), guitarist Scott Murawski (Max Creek), tap dancer and vocalist Jeannie Hill, flutist and vocalist Julee Avallone (Dr. Juice) and drummer Doug Belote (Anders Osborne, Tony Furtado), the band will perform songs from Inside In as well as other material from within and without.

Released August 26, Inside In is the complement to Outside Out, his first full-length feature film.  Recorded at his home studio, all songs on Inside In were written and performed by Gordon and feature a revered collective of guest musicians such as Jon Fishman, Béla Fleck, and Col. Bruce Hampton as well as many others.

The full tourdates are as follows:

10/5 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
10/7 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
10/8 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
10/10 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
10/11 Bogarts Cincinnati, OH
10/13 Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
10/14 Toad's Place New Haven, CT
10/15 Avalon Boston, MA
10/16 Irving Plaza New York, NY

We're pleased to announce that guitarist Kaki King will support all dates.

Tickets to the Mike Gordon tour will be offered in real-time through our secure online ticketing system concurrently with traditional 'public' outlets. The first onsale is Friday, Sept. 12 at 11 AM EST, but please refer to the Phish website for exact onsale times for each show. Tickets sold via our site will be available first come, first serve until our allotment has sold out or up until the week of the show. Tickets sold through other outlets will be available through the day of the show or until they sell out. All shows are general admission.

The Mike Gordon ticket site can be found at http://www.mikegordontickets.rlc.net . Please note that the site will not be live until Friday. Full ticketing information can be found on the Phish Tourdates page at http://www.phish.com/tourdates .

INSIDE IN is available for sale directly from Phish Dry Goods:
http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/category.html?cid=70

The Jazz Mandolin Project featuring Jon Fishman on drums will be out for five dates at the beginning of October. For full info, check out the JMP website at http://www.jazzmandolinproject.com.

The dates are as follows:

10/7 Mr. Smalls Pittsburgh PA
10/8 Jack Quinns Cincinnati OH (2 shows)
10/9 House of Blues Chicago IL
10/10 The Canopy Club Champaign, IL
10/11 Copper Dragon Carbondale IL