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Dates:Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Hours:8:00PM
Ages:Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:$$ see below
Category:Theater & Shows

20 Years Before The Mast: The Decemberists 20th Anniversary Tour will take the Boch Center Wang Theatre stage August 19.

For 20 years The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands.

Founded in the year 2000 when singer, songwriter, and guitarist Colin Meloy moved from Montana to Portland, Oregon and met bassist Nate Query, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and guitarist Chris Funk, The Decemberists’ distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start with the release of their debut EP 5 Songs in 2001.

After making their full-length debut with Castaways and Cutouts in 2002, the band signed with Kill Rock Stars for the release of the acclaimed albums Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003) and Picaresque (2005), which was produced by Chris Walla.

The 2004 EP The Tain – an 18-minute single-track epic – made the band’s grand creative ambitions clear.

Around this time the band’s permanent line-up fell into place with the arrival of drummer John Moen, and they made the unexpected leap to Capitol Records for their first major label album in 2006.

Fans’ concerns of whether the band would alter their trademark sound quickly vanished when they delivered their most ambitious and audacious record to date in The Crane Wife, a song cycle produced by Walla and Tucker Martine (who would become a longtime creative partner) that added elements of ‘70s prog, hard rock and even quasi-disco to their palette.

The album was met by wide acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Stereogum, and was named Best New Music by Pitchfork.

Three years later, The Hazards of Love – a full-length concept album based on Meloy’s idea for a stage musical - was a Top 20 hit.

In 2011, they topped themselves yet again with their first #1 album, The King Is Dead, which featured the GRAMMY-nominated song “Down By The Water.” After their 2015 album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, which included the #1 AAA radio hit “Make You Better,” The Decemberists changed up their sound and explored new approaches to making music on their eighth studio album I’ll Be Your Girl (2018) with producer John Congleton.

NPR Music wrote “Every band needs to refresh and reconsider its sound sooner or later, no matter how sharp it's gotten over the course of a long career — even The Decemberists, a band whose records have always come bursting with verve...

I'll Be Your Girl captures a collaborative spirit that keeps the band sounding vibrant and alive.”

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Tickets start at $39.50+

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www.bochcenter.org/buy/show-listing/the-decemberists

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270 Tremont St, Boston, MA, 02116 map
Phone: 617-482-9393

Boch Center Wang Theatre
270 Tremont St
Boston MA 02116

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