It’s been three years since Flight Of The Conchords last hit the stage together but it’s business time once again with the Kiwi duo announced as the headliners of the Newport Folk Festival in July.
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement will perform together at the festival, showing exactly why they’re New Zealand’s fourth favourite folk band (although that position may have slipped due to their hiatus).
The pair will play alongside a lineup that includes Father John Misty, Raury and Ray LaMontagne at the iconic festival, hopefully bringing back a bunch of their tunes from their HBO series which ran for two seasons, the last of which aired in 2009. During that time they also released two records; Flight Of The Conchords and I Told You I Was Freaky.
While it’s their only confirmed live appearance at this stage, it may not be the last. Clement promised that the Conchords would hit the road this year, saying that it was meant to happen last year but he was busy working on the film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.
Clement has been extremely busy over the past few years. He’s worked on films like Rio, Men In Black III, Despicable Me and Muppets Most Wanted.
His partner in crime McKenzie also worked on Muppets Most Wanted and also the last two instalments of The Hobbit. Last year Clement told Indiewire that the pair had started writing a Flight Of The Conchords movie. However, he gave no indication of when to expect that.
Flight of the Conchords’ Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour tour dates:
June 11 – Cleveland, OH @ State Theatre
June 12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for Performing Arts
June 13 – Washington, DC @ Wolf Trap Filene Center
June 14 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
June 16 – Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
June 17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum
June 18 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre
June 19 – Chicago, IL @ Pritzker Pavilion
June 22 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
June 23 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum
June 24 – Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium
June 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
July 1 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
July 2 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
July 3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
July 5 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 7 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
July 9 – Austin, TX @ Bass Hall
July 11 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
July 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre
July 14 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
July 16 – Boca Raton, FL @ Mizner Park Amphitheatre
July 17 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre
July 18 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre
July 22 – Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival 2016 (Fort Adams State Park)
July 23 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
July 24 – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage
July 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
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