Dashboard Confessional is marking the 25th anniversary of its landmark MTV Unplugged performance with a 15-date North American tour that wraps up in San Francisco, bringing the Florida band's acoustic-driven breakthrough back to the stage in the city where the run concludes at The Masonic.
The tour kicks off March 12, 2027, at the Salt Shed in Chicago and ends April 3 at The Masonic in San Francisco, according to Rolling Stone. The Masonic's own listings confirm the stop, showing a Live 105 Presents event billed as Dashboard Confessional: Unplugged 25th Anniversary, according to sfmasonic.com.
The tour commemorates Dashboard Confessional's April 24, 2002, performance on MTV's Unplugged series, a show that the outlet's report says brought frontman Chris Carrabba's acoustic-driven songs to a much larger audience and helped cement the band's place in the early-2000s emo scene, per the San Francisco Chronicle. The set was released that December as the live album MTV Unplugged 2.0, a year before the band's 2003 breakout record, A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar, the same Rolling Stone report notes.
Carrabba Reflects on a Pivotal Moment
In a statement, Carrabba called the original Unplugged performance “a pivotal and unifying moment for the band and our fans.” He added that he was excited to celebrate the milestone, language echoed in the same statement cited by the report.
Carrabba also said he recently performed intimate solo acoustic shows in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles that carried an electric energy, according to the same account. He said he's excited to carry that spirit into bigger venues with the band arrangements from the original Unplugged performance, per Consequence.
Audience singalongs were a defining feature of the original 2002 taping, with one account noting that without them, the recording would feel incomplete, according to an oral history from The Ringer.
Ticket Timeline and Band Background
Fans can access a Saints & Sailors Fan Club presale beginning Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. local time, followed by an artist presale at 10 a.m. local that same day, the Rolling Stone report states. General tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, according to Consequence's report.
Dashboard Confessional, formed in 1999, has released eight studio albums, with 2022's All the Truth That I Can Tell standing as its most recent, according to the Chronicle's reporting. The band also parted ways amicably with Chris Kamrada this year, the same Chronicle report notes.
Beyond the Unplugged anniversary run, Dashboard Confessional has other touring plans on the books: the band intends to join Denver outfit The Fray, known for the 2006 hit “How to Save a Life,” for dates in Australia and New Zealand, and also plans to appear on Hilary Duff's “Lucky Me” arena tour, per the Chronicle.
