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Tegan and Sara Announce Additional 2023 Tour Dates + Festival Performances

The innovative, multi-platinum Canadian duo Tegan and Sara have announced additional North American tour dates for 2023 today. The tour kicks off with two dates in California and includes stops at L’Olympia in Montreal, Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Roadrunner in Boston, The Paramount in Huntington, and more. They will also make stops at Beachlife Festival, WonderRoad Festival, and Sea.Hear.Now Festival. See below for a full rundown of tour dates with newly announced dates in bold. Tickets and VIP Packages for the newly announced 2023 headline dates will be available to the public on Friday, March 10 at 10 AM local time at https://teganandsara.com/events/.

Tegan and Sara also announced the release of their graphic novel, Junior High, with artwork from Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden. This is the opening book of their middle-grade graphic novel duology that  explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood. A prequel of sorts to their bestselling adult memoir High School, now an 8-episode Freevee television series. The novel will be released May 30, 2023 via Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Macmillan. Pre-order it HERE.

Last year, Tegan and Sara released Crybaby, their tenth studio album and first release with label Mom+Pop Music to critical acclaim, garnering praise from the New York Times, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Consequence, AV Club and many more.

Following the release of the album, Tegan and Sara went on to play sold out rooms across the country, as well as making stops at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show With James Corden.

2022 also saw the debut of High School, the original coming-of-age series co-created and executive produced by Tegan and Sara Quin and Clea DuVall. The series is based off of the twins’ critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling memoir of the same name. The show was co-created and executive produced by Tegan and Sara Quin and Clea DuVall, who also features as a director on select episodes. Shot in Calgary and produced by Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios, High School stars TikTok creators and TV newcomers Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, portraying the high school versions of Tegan and Sara. Special guest stars Cobie Smulders and Kyle Bornheimer play the twins’ parents.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

May 3 – Solvang Festival Theatre – Solvang, CA *

May 5 – Beachlife Festival – Redondo Beach, CA

Jun 14 – L’Olympia – Montreal, Quebec#

Jun 15 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON#

Jun 18 – WonderRoad Festival – Indianapolis, IN

Jun 20 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN^

Jun 21 – The Pageant – St Louis, MO^

Jul 7 – Jul 8 – Mariposa Folk Festival – Orilla, ON

Jul 9 – LeBreton Flatts (Ottawa Bluesfest) – Ottawa, ON

Jul 14 – Sommo Festival – Green Gables – Cavendish, PE

Jul 29 – TCU Place – Saskatoon, SK

Jul 31 – Burton Cummings Theatre – Winnipeg, MB

Aug 16 – Pioneer Courthouse Square – Portland, OR

Aug 17 – Woodland Park Zoo – Seattle, WA

Sep 12 – First Ave – Minneapolis, MN*

Sep 16 – Roxian Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA*

Sep 17 – Sea.Hear.Now Festival – Asbury Park, NJ

Sep 20 – The Paramount – Huntington, NY*

Sep 22 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA*

Sep 26 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC*

Sep 27 – Charleston Music Hall – Charleston, SC*

Sep 28 – Carolina Theatre – Durham, NC*

Oct 2 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA*

Oct 3 – Hard Rock – Orlando, FL*

# w/ Hand Habits

^ w/ Dragonette

* w/ Carlie Hanson

Tegan And Sara Announce New Album “Crybaby”

Canadian duo Tegan and Sara will release their 10th studio album, Crybaby, on October 21 as part of their recently announced new deal with Mom+Pop Music. Out today is the next single from the project, the sweet, anthemic ‘Yellow,’ accompanied by a Mark Myers-directed video that playfully pays homage to Coldplay’s video for their 2000 song of the same name. Pre-save Crybaby HERE.

The innovative, multi-platinum group will support Crybaby with a North American fall tour of intimate venues, beginning October 26 in Philadelphia and wrapping November 20 in the twin sisters’ current Vancouver homebase. Fans can sign up now for an exclusive presale at www.teganandsara.com.  The fan presale begins tomorrow at 10am local time.  Remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 15 at 10am local at http://www.teganandsara.com.  VIP packages will be offered for all dates and singer-songwriter Tomberlin will be opening.

Crybaby was produced by John Congleton (Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten) Sara Quin and Tegan Quin and recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle and Sargent Recorders in Los Angeles. “This was the first time where, while we were still drafting our demos, we were thinking about how the songs were going to work together,” says Tegan. “It wasn’t even just that Sara was making lyric changes or reorganizing the parts to my songs, it was that she was also saying to me, ‘This song is going to be faster,’ or ‘It’s going to be in a different key.’ But Sara effectively improves everything of mine that she works on.” Sara adds with a laugh, “Maybe I am the renovator. I’m the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band.

As for ‘Yellow,’ Sara says the song “was written after we began to take steps to heal the bruises we have both carried with us since adolescence and early adulthood – wounds that never quite healed right and flare up seasonally, sending us spiraling backward in time. Are we doomed to remain forever 15, breaking up and breaking apart? I hope not.” She adds that the video “was shot in Vancouver, a city that didn’t feel big enough to hold us both when we arrived here the first time. Twenty-two years later, we’re back, calling it home.

In addition to today’s album, single, tour and video news, Amazon Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) will be releasing High School, a new original coming-of-age series co-created and executive produced by Tegan and Sara Quin and Clea DuVall. The series is based on the twins’ critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling memoir of the same name. Produced by Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios, High School stars TikTok creators and TV newcomers Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, portraying the high school versions of Tegan and Sara. Special guest stars Cobie Smulders and Kyle Bornheimer will play the twins’ parents. The series recently wrapped filming in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

With nine studio albums to their credit and millions of records sold, Tegan and Sara have used music as a way of storytelling throughout their 20-year career. With that storytelling at the core, they have built a multi-faceted media empire that stretches into TV, books, newsletter and public service, but always deeply rooted in music. Tegan and Sara recently launched “I Think We’re Alone Now,” a Substack newsletter that includes both free and paid-tier content, spanning audio and text-message conversations as well as essays, lyric annotations and behind-the-scenes looks about their upcoming projects. Tegan and Sara have received three JUNO Awards, a GRAMMY nomination, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and the 2018 New York Civil Liberties Union Award. Outspoken advocates for equality, the duo in 2016 created the Tegan and Sara Foundation, which fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women.

Also on the horizon is the middle-grade graphic novel duology Tegan & Sara: Junior High and Tegan & Sara: Crush, written by the twins and illustrated by Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden.  The contemporary story is about identical twins growing up and growing apart, coming to terms with their queerness and falling in love with music over the course of junior high. The first volume is due for release in spring 2023.

Tegan and Sara Fall Tour Dates (w/Tomberlin):

October 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

October 28 – Boston, MA @ Royale

October 29 – New York, NY @ Pier 17

October 30 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club

November 1 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall

November 2 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre

November 4 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues

November 5 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre

November 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

November 8 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre

November 9 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

November 11 – Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater

November 12 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory

November 13 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues

November 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre

November 16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

November 18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre

November 19 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

November 20 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom