Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97, a brand new 7-CD box set, showcasing three complete shows recorded Live November 21 & 22, 1997 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA and November 23, 1997 Lawrence Joel Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, in the midst of Phish’s legendary 1997 Fall Tour, is in stores today!

Trey will launch his first-ever orchestral tour on February 9, 2012, performing with the Atlanta Symphony at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. The Trey Anastasio Winter Symphony Tour will also include performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony (2/14), the Colorado Symphony (2/28) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (3/10). The programs, conducted by Scott Dunn in all four cities, will feature orchestrations of classic Phish songs and solo Anastasio compositions.

Phish will release The White Tape and Party Time on vinyl as part of Record Store Day’s “Black Friday” on Friday, November 25th, after Thanksgiving. Both albums will be available exclusively at participating independently owned record stores across the country.

As mentioned previously, anyone who pre-orders Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 from Phish Dry Goods will also receive previously unreleased Hampton/Winston-Salem tracks from the Phish Archives that won’t be available anywhere else (in addition to the complete box set in MP3 format).

SiriusXM Satellite radio’s Jam_ON channel will broadcast Phish’s upcoming Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 release, with audio commentary from Phish Archivist, Kevin Shapiro, beginning Wednesday, November 23rd at 2AM and 9PM daily, through November 28th.

Together with the WaterWheel Foundation, we’ve announced the initial grants from the September 14 benefit concert at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex, VT via the WaterWheel Fund for Vermont Flood Recovery, housed at the Vermont Community Foundation. The WaterWheel Foundation has worked closely with philanthropic advisors at the Vermont Community Foundation to jointly develop a comprehensive giving strategy for the concert proceeds. The first round of grants from the fund will be distributed this week.

Mike and his band return to the road this Saturday in Portsmouth, NH for a short and sweet handful of shows spanning two weekends on the East Coast. Tickets are on sale now for all dates.

On December 6, Phish will release Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97, a brand new 7-CD box set, showcasing three complete shows recorded Live November 21 & 22, 1997 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA and November 23, 1997 Lawrence Joel Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, in the midst of Phish’s legendary 1997 Fall Tour. Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 contains all the music played over these three shows for a total of 45 songs (8 hours of music from Paul Languedoc’s stereo soundboard mix, remastered by Fred Kevorkian). The Box includes never-before-heard material from soundchecks at both venues.

At the end of December, Phish returns to Madison Square Garden in New York, New York for a four-show Holiday/NYE Run to close out 2011. The band has played 19 shows to date at MSG, beginning with its December 30, 1994 concert and including last year’s three-night stand, which concluded on New Year’s Day.

Mike and his band return to the road this Fall for a short and sweet handful of shows spanning two weekends on the East Coast in support of his studio album, Moss.

During the first weekend, the band will return to the impenetrable state of New Hampshire and perform in Portsmouth and Lebanon. Three weeks later the band will pick back up and play Pawtucket, RI and Albany, NY. The band will also return to Northampton, MA, where they played their inaugural gig together back in 2008.

Two additional Trey Anastasio Band shows have been added to the septet’s ever-expanding run through the East. TAB will return to Higher Ground in Burlington, VT on Saturday, Oct 1st for a special Vermont Flood Recovery Benefit show. Ticket proceeds from the Higher Ground show will be directed to The Waterwheel Foundation and The Vermont Community Foundation to aid in the recovery of the Green Mountain State.  

Phish’s Wednesday night Benefit For Vermont Flood Recovery at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, VT raised in excess of $1.2 million dollars for Vermont flood recovery efforts. Major donors generously underwrote all the production expenses for the evening, contributing greatly to the concert’s success. All proceeds – including ticket revenues, merchandise, download and webcast sales and concessions – will be directed to The WaterWheel Foundation and the Vermont Community Foundation to aid in the recovery of the Green Mountain State.