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Rising Sun Presents:

**SOLD OUT** Toad The Wet Sprocket with harris at The Colonial Theatre 

Sunday, Septermeber 29, 2024 

Doors at 7:00 PM / Show at 8:00 PM

All Ages

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About Toad The Wet Sprocket

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Toad The Wet Sprocket - the trio of founding members Glen Phillips, Todd Nichols, and Dean Dinning - are still making new music and touring with the same spirit and independence that started it all, over three decades ago. This year marks a new milestone in their journey with the 30th anniversary of the 1994 platinum selling album Dulcinea.  

After the success of fear (1991) the band re-teamed with producer Gavin MacKillop, to create a new body of work that would become their album Dulcinea, and sequestered themselves in a residential studio in Marin County, CA. Inspired by the sound that they had developed from their recent touring, the band tracked the record mostly live in a huge room lit by hundreds of candles. With minimal overdubs, the album comes across as an honest document of a stunning batch of songs, some of which had the benefit of having been already played in on the road.

It was also during these sessions that the band recorded its unique cover of "Rock and Roll All Night" for the Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved (1994) at the request of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, who loved it and said "it reminded him of Jackson Browne".

Dulcinea arrived in 1994 and was followed by a tour in which the band played over 80 headlining shows, with openers as diverse as Milla Jovovich and Hootie & the Blowfish in their first national tours. The first single "Fall Down" (with a video directed by Samuel Bayer of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" fame) spent 6 weeks at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. "Something's Always Wrong" was featured in the movie "Fear" and had a groundbreaking music video that put the band on the Home Shopping Network selling themselves to the lowest bidder. A highlight of the Dulcinea era was playing the NOW rally in Washington, DC in April of 1995, a performance that put the band in front of a million people and was nationally broadcast.

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About Harris 

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Hailing from central Virginia, harris is a decorated guitarist, producer and singer-songwriter
who wears his heart on his sleeve. Having toured the country garnering his own audience over
many years, he has amassed a loyal fanbase that comes from the blues, folk, rock and soul
demographic. Since, his audience has given him millions of streams across Spotify and Apple
Music with no playlisted assistance.
 
At twenty-two, he moved to Los Angeles to continue touring with his band comprised of Julius Rodriguez (Charlie Hunter, Kurt Elling, Kendrick Lamar), Leo Varella (Cordae, Doja Cat), Paul “Papabear” Johnson (Taeyang, Doja Cat, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne) and Brian Richburg Jr. (Cautious Clay, Christian Scott, Braxton Cook, Joss Stone). With this superpowered rhythm section, he has been able to impress the local scene in Los Angeles, selling out several venues and making his mark with the more seasoned, famed local guitarists.