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“We love our band and think the title of the tour “UNLEASHED” perfectly describes how we all feel when we get on stage together — especially in 2009. We’re so happy to get back out on the road, perform everyone’s favorite songs and see our fans,” said the band in a joint statement.

Tickets for the Live Nation produced tour go on sale to the public on December 15th at http://www.livenation.com/ and ticketmaster.com. American Express Cardmembers will have early access to tickets beginning December 8th at 10am local time through December 14th at 10pm local time at http://www.ticketmaster.com/, excluding Uncasville, Ottawa and Montreal. American Express presale tickets for the Albany, NY show are available at http://www.tickets.com/

The first 16 dates of the historic “UNLEASHED” tour will include stops in New York, Boston, Washington and Montreal, it was confirmed today by Live Nation, the tour’s national promoter (tour dates listed below). Fleetwood Mac, the multi-Grammy (R) award winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will continue the “UNLEASHED” tour throughout the Spring and Summer. Additional dates to be announced shortly.

In other great Fleetwood Mac news, the iconographic ‘RUMOURS’ CD (certified Diamond (R) signifying sales of over 10 million units by the RIAA) is scheduled to be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD boxed set on Reprise Records in conjunction with the tour dates. The boxed set will include previously unreleased tracks recorded during the making of ‘RUMOURS’ as well as a DVD component with never before seen footage of the band.

I Love All Access to provide a variety of VIP packages for the tour including premium seats.

  FLEETWOOD MAC 'UNLEASHED' TOUR DATES 2009

  Date                      City                  Venue
  Sunday, March 1st         Pittsburgh, PA        Mellon Arena
  Tuesday, March 3rd        St. Paul, MN          Xcel Energy Center
  Thursday, March 5th          Chicago, IL           Allstate Arena
  Sunday, March 8th         Detroit, MI           Palace of Auburn Hills
  Tuesday, March 10th       Washington, DC        Verizon Center
  Wednesday, March 11th     Boston, MA            TD Banknorth Arena
  Friday, March 13th        Uniondale, NY         Nassau Coliseum
  Saturday, March 14th      Uncasville, CT        Mohegan Sun Arena
  Monday, March 16th        Rochester, NY         Blue Cross Arena
  Tuesday, March 17th       Albany, NY            Times Union Center
  Thursday, March 19th      New York, NY          Madison Square Garden
  Saturday, March 21st      East Rutherford, NJ   Izod Center
  Tuesday, March 24th       Ottawa, ON            Scotiabank Place
  Wednesday, March 25th     Montreal, QC          Bell Centre
  Thursday, March 26th      Toronto, ON           Air Canada Centre

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SOURCE: Warner Bros./Reprise Records