The National announced the dates for their 19-date fall North American tour on Monday morning (Feb. 26). The joint Zen Diagram Tour outing with The War on Drugs is slated to kick off on Sept .12 with a gig in Gilford, NH at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion and take the bands to New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Vancouver and Los Angeles before winding down with an Oct. 10 show at the Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City.
The first joint tour by the bands will feature special guest Lucius on all the dates except Mexico City. A presale for the Live Nation-produced outing will begin on Tuesday (Feb. 27) at 10 a.m. local time, followed by a general onsale on Friday (March 1) at 10 a.m. local time here.
Each band will play a full set from the headliners, with the National still touring in support of their dual 2023 releases, First Two Pages of Frankenstein and September’s Laugh Track. The War on Drugs dropped their fifth full-length studio album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, in Oct. 2021.
Check out the dates for the 2024 Zen Diagram tour below.
Sept. 12 — Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
Sept. 13 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
Sept. 14 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
Sept. 16 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sept. 17 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at the Mann Center for Performing Arts
Sept. 19 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell
Sept. 20 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
Sept. 21 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
Sept. 24 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
Sept. 25 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
Sept. 26 — Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field
Sept. 28 — Englewood, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *
Sept. 29 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Granary Live *
Oct. 1 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
Oct. 2 — Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
Oct. 3 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
Oct. 6 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre *
Oct. 7 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
Oct. 10 — Mexico City, MX @ Palacio De Los Deportes
* Non-Live Nation Date
^ Without Lucius
