Forget the year of the dragon, 2024 will be the year of the Boognish as Ween will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a nationwide tour. The 12-date run will carry the brothers in brown Dean Ween and Gene Ween—Mickey Melchiondo Jr. and Aaron Freeman, respectively—and their musical cohorts from coast to coast in April and August.
The tour is divided between an April run through the Southeast and an August stretch of shows in the Pacific Northwest. Ween will begin the trek on April 19th in Atlanta with a show at the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, which can accommodate 1,400 more attendees than The Eastern where Ween previously played when visiting Atlanta. Other stops on the tour will also see Ween step up to bigger venues, including the following show on April 20th at Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville (Ween last played a two-night stand at Ryman Auditorium in 2018). Rather than playing several nights at smaller venues, the band has opted for mostly single shows at larger facilities.
Ween’s Southeast run will also include shows in Birmingham, AL (4/21), Charleston, SC (4/23), a hometown show for drummer Claude Coleman Jr. in Asheville, NC (4/25), Raleigh (4/26), and finally Richmond, VA (4/27). After a few months off, the Boognish will manifest itself out west beginning with a two-night run in Missoula, MT (8/2–8/3). The show in Big Sky country has been a long time coming, after being postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic and again in 2022 after a member of the band tested positive for COVID, after which a new date was never announced.
The tour will then wind down with stops in Spokane, WA (8/4), Seattle (8/6), and finally Eugene, OR (8/10). These shows precede Ween’s previously announced Chocolate and Cheese 30th anniversary show at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on September 27th. The band also has a four-show, two-city run of Valentine’s Day shows next month in Phoenix (2/14–2/15) and Del Mar, CA (2/17–2/18).
A pre-sale for tickets to the Ween 40th anniversary tour will begin on Wednesday, January 17th at 10 a.m. local venue time on the band’s website. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, January 19th at 10 a.m. local venue time. See below for a full list of tour dates.
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