Sonata Arctica will perform as headliners at Radio Mega’s 20th anniversary in Oulu @ Club Teatria. The concert will take place on the 4th of June. Other performers are Graham Bonnet & Joe Lynn Turner, Zero Nine and Kolera.
March 2008
Simerock confirmed
Sonata Arctica have been announced to play at Simerock, the world’s northernmost rock festival, in Rovaniemi (Finland) on July 6th 2008.
USA Tour supporting Nightwish
Sonata Arctica will support Nightwish on the third U.S. leg of their Dark Passion Play tour. Sonata Arctica will be touring in support of their latest album, Unia.
The trek is tentatively scheduled to begin at the end of August and run through the end of September. Final details, including on-sale dates, will be officially announced in early April.
Fields of Rock (NL) cancelled
The Fields of Rock festival in Biddinghuizen (NL) has been cancelled.
Read the official statement on the Fields of Rock website.
Tony Kakko at ‘Sing The Classics And Classic Rock’ (19.04.2008)
Singlive UK have invited Tony Kakko to perform two of his songs with 320 singers at THE SAGE Gateshead on Saturday 19th April 2008.
‘Sing The Classics And Classics Rock’ will be performed at 3:00 pm and a second show at 7:30 pm.
For more information please check www.singliveuk.com
This event takes place prior to Sonata Arctica’s upcoming UK tour.
21.04.2008 – London, Carling Academy Islington (UK)
22.04.2008 – Leeds, Rio’s (UK)
23.04.2008 – Glasgow, Garage (UK)
25.04.2008 – Sheffield, Corporation (UK)
26.04.2008 – Dublin, Button Factory (Ireland)
27.04.2008 – Dudley, JB’s (UK)
Sonata Arctica confirmed for Ruisrock 2008.
Another Finnish festival has been confirmed. Sonata Arctica will play at Ruisrock, Turku on July 4th.
See the complete summer festival schedule of 2008 below:
07.06. – Sauna Open Air / TAMPERE (FI)
21.06. – Hellfest / CLISSON (F)
22.06. – Fields of Rock / BIDDINGHUIZEN (NL)
27.06. – 29.06. – Tuska Open Air / HELSINKI (FI)
28.06. – Graspop Metal Meeting / DESSEL (B)
04.07. – Ruisrock / TURKU (FI) *new*
13.07. – Masters of Rock / VIZOVICE (CZ)
11.07. – Evolution Festival / MILAN (I)
31.07. – 02.08. – Wacken Open Air / WACKEN (D)
Please note that in some cases the dates can change if the festival takes longer than one day and no specific date has been announced for the band, yet. More festivals will be announced as soon as they are confirmed.