Phish has announced its return to Madison Square Garden for a run of four concerts leading up to the band’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration. The 2024 Phish New Year’s run will begin on Saturday, December 28th and continue through Tuesday, December 31st, bringing the band’s total number of performances at the World’s Most Famous Arena to 87.
A ticket request period for the 2024 Phish New Year’s run at Madison Square Garden is currently underway at here through Monday, October 7th at 12:00 p.m. ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning on Friday, October 11th at 12:00 ET. A limited number of travel packages (including tickets and accommodations) will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 12:00 p.m. ET here. On-sale information is available via Ticketmaster.
Phish’s New Year’s Eve (12/31) shows typically include three sets, as opposed to the typical two, and feature elaborate, theatrical “gags.” During the 2023 New Year’s Eve show at MSG, Phish staged took fans to “Gamehendge” with a live staging of guitarist Trey Anastasio‘s college thesis featuring actors, dancers, outsized production elements, and plenty narrative-oriented nuance. The early-days Phish rock opera, which includes a number of the most beloved songs in the band’s repertoire, had not been performed in its entirety with narration since 1994.
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The 2024 New Year’s Eve run at Madison Square Garden will cap an eventful year for Phish. In April, the band offered up a memorable four-night run at Las Vegas, NV’s Sphere, serving as the second-ever act to perform at the high-tech venue. After releasing their 16th album, Evolve, in July and notching a number of notable promotional appearances including an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Anastasio, Jon Fishman (drums, vocals), Mike Gordon (bass, vocals), and Page McConnell (keys, vocals) set out on a well-received summer tour that culminated in band’s 11th curated festival, Mondegreen, and their customary Labor Day weekend stint at Commerce City, CO’s Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Before Phish returns to its de facto home court for New Year’s Eve, the band—comprised of —will head to Albany, NY’s MVP Arena on October 25th, 26th, and 27th for a run of three performances benefitting the Anastasio-co-founded Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program and its facility in Ludlow, Vermont. Limited single-day and three-day tickets for the Phish Divided Sky benefit run in Albany are available via Ticketmaster.
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