Following the announcement of their return to New York on June 5th at Barclay’s Center, The National are pleased to announce their North American and European summer tour. The tour begins on May 16th and covers the eastern United States and Canada before heading to Europe.^. Highlights include Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee in June and Cincinnati's Bunbury music festival on July 14th.    

Tickets for the National’s tour go on sale on Friday, 1st March. Ticketing links can be found here:  http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php.  More tour dates are planned for 2013.   

A brand new studio album from The National is slated for a May release on 4AD. This forthcoming release is follow up to the critically acclaimed High Violet (2010), which brought the band global critical and commercial success.  People Magazine described the album as “stellar, moody atmospherics.” and Rolling Stone called it “a seductive collection of subtly surging anti-anthems, with evocative lyrics about the terrors and unexpected joys of adult life.”

May
16th - State Theater, Ithaca, NY
June
5th - Barclay's Center, Brooklyn, NY
6th - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
7th - Mann Center for Performing Art, Philadelphia, PA
8th - The National, Richmond, VA
10th - Red Hat Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC
11th - Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
13th - Lachine Canal, Montreal, Canada
14th - Yonge Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada
15th - LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH
16th - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
21st - Hurricane Festival, Scheessel, Germany
22nd - Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
25th - Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
28th - Live At The Marquee, Cork, Ireland
30th - Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy
July
1st - City Sound Festival, Milan, Italy
2nd - Salata, Zagreb, Croatia
14th - Cincinnati, OH, Bunbury Festival