Paula Cole to Celebrate 30 Years of This Fire With Fall Tour
aula Cole is heading back out on the road this fall to celebrate 30 years of This Fire, the album that marked her breakthrough in the mid-90s.
The tour begins September 17 at Webster Hall in New York City and runs through October 10 at Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington. Along the way, she’ll stop in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, and additional cities across the country.
Released in 1996, This Fire reached number 20 on the Billboard 200 and introduced Cole to a much wider audience. The album produced “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” which climbed to number 8 on the Hot 100, along with “I Don’t Want to Wait,” which reached number 11 before becoming widely known as the theme song for Dawson’s Creek.
Cole reflected on the anniversary in a recent post, writing that the album changed her life and that this tour is a way to return to those songs with the band and the people who have stayed with them over the years. The shows are built around that record, bringing those tracks back to the front rather than treating them like a small part of a larger set.
Thirty years later, This Fire still sits at the center of her catalog, and this run is focused on revisiting it in full, in the rooms where people can actually hear it the way it lands live.
Upcoming Dates:
9/17 – New York City @ Webster Hall
9/18 – Boston, MA @ The Wilbur
9/19 – Fairfield, CT @ The Warehouse FTC
9/20 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
9/23 – Kent, OH @ The Kent Stage
9/24 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
9/25 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
9/29 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
9/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The State Room
10/3 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
10/6 – Grass Valley, CA @ Green Valley Center for the Arts
10/8 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
10/10 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
