Trampled By Turtles Play CBS This Morning, Tour Behind Wild Animals

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES ADDS DECEMBER TOUR DATES

“CBS THIS MORNING: SATURDAY” PERFORMANCE AIRS

WILD ANIMALS OUT NOW VIA THIRTY TIGERS

ON TOUR NOW

Trampled by Turtles will continue their U.S. tour with additional dates throughout the month of December. The band is currently touring the U.S. and Europe to celebrate their critically acclaimed new record Wild Animals.

To further celebrate the release the band performed on “CBS This Morning: Saturday.” Additionally, their NPR Tiny Desk Concert recently premiered. Of the music NPR Music’s Bob Boilen praises “What immediately attracted me to Trampled by Turtles when I first saw the band was its speed, but the Minnesotans are about more than just blistering bluegrass. They also write beautiful, heartfelt folk-pop songs.” The band also recently performed on “The Late Show With David Letterman.”

In addition, Trampled by Turtles hosted the first annual Festival Palomino in September. The festival, curated entirely by the band, took place at Canterbury Park outside of Minneapolis.

Trampled by Turtles’ latest record Wild Animals was released this summer to critical acclaim— Relix praises “these beautiful songs are starry-sky clear and wide open” and AV Club adds “there’s a patience and simplicity here that you wouldn’t expect from guys who came up playing fast and hard on fiddles and banjos.” The album was produced by Alan Sparhawk, the lead singer-songwriter of Low and recorded in the legendary Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN (Nirvana, Andrew Bird, The Jayhawks).

Formed in Duluth, MN in 2003, Trampled by Turtles is Dave Simonett (guitar, vocals), Tim Saxhaug (bass, vocals), Dave Carroll (banjo, vocals), Erik Berry (mandolin) and Ryan Young (fiddle). Within the contained music scene of Duluth, the members of the band did their own time in punk and rock bands brandishing their electricity proudly before switching to acoustic instruments. While they never set out to be a bluegrass band, Trampled by Turtles employs many of the same traditional techniques of the genre, but their differences in influences and attack make for their unique sound. After spending years refining their live show and building fans via word of mouth, they released their debut Palomino to little fanfare out of the gates. The story quickly built and eventually the record spent over a year straight on the Billboard Heatseakers Chart.

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES TOUR DATES
October 16 Ozark, AR Harvest Music Festival
October 18 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
October 19 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
October 20 Arcata, CA Humboldt State
October 22 Chico, CA El Rey Theatre
October 23 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
October 24 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre
October 25 Reno, NV Cargo
October 26 Las Vegas, NV Life is Beautiful Festival
November 10 Munich, DE Kranhalle
November 11 Berlin, DE Bang Bang Club
November 12 Hamburg, DE Prinzenbar
November 13 Köln, DE Luxor
November 14 The Hague, NL Crossing Border Festival
November 15 Paris, FR La Maroquinerie
November 16 Bristol, UK Thekla
November 17 Manchester, UK Gorilla
November 18 Glasgow, UK The Art School
November 19 Birmingham, UK The Institute
November 20 London, UK Scala
November 22 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso Noord
December 9 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre
December 10 Richmond, VA The National
December 11 Raleigh, NC Meymandi Concert Hall
December 12 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
December 13 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Live
December 14 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues Orlando
December 16 Charleston, SC Music Farm
December 17 Chattanooga, TN Track 29
December 18 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
December 19 Birmingham, AL Iron City
December 20 Louisville, KY Brown Theatre
February 7 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium