Widespread Panic have plotted out yet another tour itinerary for fall/winter 2000. The Georgia jam-band will kick off a twenty-five city, twenty-nine concert tour on Oct. 19 in North Charleston, S.C. and wrap things up in Carbondale, Ill. on Dec. 1.

In related Panic news, the group has been captured by sibling filmmaking team Sweetwater Productions for an upcoming feature film. Sweetwater (Christopher and Geoffrey Hanson) caught more than 450 hours of Widespread Panic footage, onstage and off, over the span of Panic's summer tour. Concert footage will include performances with blues legend Taj Mahal, Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and keyboardist Chuck Leavell.

Widespread Panic tour dates:

10/19: North Charleston, SC, North Charleston Coliseum
10/20: Valdosta, GA, VSU Complex
10/21: Charlotte, NC, Independence Arena
10/23: Gainesville, FL, O'Connell Center
10/24: Sunrise, FL, Sunrise Musical Theater
10/25: St. Petersburg, FL, Bayfront Arena
10/27-29: New Orleans, LA, UNO Lakefront Arena
11/2: Los Angeles, CA, Wiltern Theater
11/3-4: San Francisco, CA, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/7: Seattle, WA, Paramount Ballroom
11/8: Eugene, OR, Hult Center for the Performing Arts
11/10: Bozeman, MT, Brick Breeden Fieldhouse
11/11: Missoula, MT, Adams Fieldhouse
11/14: West Valley City, UT, E-Center
11/15: Laramie, WY, A&S Auditorium
11/17: Madison, WI, Exhibition Hall
11/18: St. Paul, MN, Roy Wilkins Auditorium
11/19: Ames, IA, Stephens Auditorium
11/21: Louisville, KY, Palace Theater
11/22: Asheville, NC, Asheville Civic Center
11/24-25: Memphis, TN, Mid-South Coliseum
11/28: Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Auditorium
11/29: Champaign, IL, Assembly Hall
11/30: Murray, KY, Regional Special Events Center
12/1: Carbondale, IL, SIU Arena

ANDREW DANSBY
(September 28, 2000)