Tenacious D Announce North American Tour

Tenacious D's Kyle Gass and Jack Black at Lollapalooza Festival in 2019
Tenacious D's Kyle Gass and Jack Black at Lollapalooza Festival in 2019. Photo by C Flanigan/imageSPACE/Shutterstock (10353788fa)

Tenacious D is hitting the road this fall. The duo, consisted of the actor and musicians Jack Black and Kyle Gass, will tour the United States in September and October as part of their The Purple Nurple Tour – Twisting Hard To The Left!.

The tour will officially start on September 25th in Davenport, Iowa, and will see the band playing cities like Cincinnati, Washington, Philadelphia, before wrapping up the trip in New York on October 9th. The band also revealed that their Washington gig would also feature a performance of a 75-piece American symphony orchestra Soulful Symphony.

Tenacious D’s most recent studio release was 2018’s Post-Apocalypto. Black recently announced that the follow-up is in work, and should be expected “sometime after 2020.”

Check out the full dates for The Purple Nurple Tour – Twisting Hard To The Left! below.

There is a political connotation to Tenacious D’s tour as the band will focus on the cities in the so-called “swing states” in order to support candidates that could face current US president Donald Trump at the upcoming presidential elections. In these swing states, both Republican and Democratic parties have similar support, and often the candidates that prevail in them end up winning the elections.