BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5efd5750-44ff-40f2-89a3-7f8805490432@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T143116Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T220000 SUMMARY:Toad The Wet Sprocket - Rings: The Acoustic Tour DESCRIPTION:Few bands have earned the kind of devotion Toad the Wet Sproc ket inspires. Since forming in Santa Barbara in 1986 — four friends\, Gl en Phillips\, Todd Nichols\, Dean Dinning\, and Randy Guss\, met in a hi gh school theater group and named themselves after a fictional Monty Pyt hon band. The band has spent four decades making music that\, as Phillip s himself puts it\, reaches toward the light even when there's shadow in it. Their debut album\, Bread & Circus\, recorded DIY-style in a tract home for just $600\, caught the attention of Columbia Records and launch ed a career defined by an uncompromising independent spirit. That spirit paid off: Fear (1991) went platinum and spawned top-20 hits “All I Want ” and “Walk on the Ocean\,” followed by a second platinum album\, Dulcin ea (1994)\, featuring fan favorites “Fall Down” and “Windmills.” Their m usic became the soundtrack to a generation — turning up in Buffy the Vam pire Slayer\, Dawson's Creek\, Empire Records\, and the platinum-selling Friends soundtrack — and their fans never left. “It's like a reunion of sorts\,” says Dean Dinning. “It's almost like having family in the audi ence every night.” After reuniting in 2006 and releasing New Constellati on (2013) and Starting Now (2021)\, Toad now\, in 2026\, marked their 40 th anniversary as a band with something truly special: Rings: The Acoust ic Sessions\, released early in 2026 — and followed up with the Rings: T he Acoustic Tour this fall\, their very first all-acoustic tour. The alb um and the idea for the tour grew organically from the band's own live s hows. Over the years\, Toad had woven special acoustic segments into the ir performances\, and the audience response was overwhelming — fans were moved every night by the intimacy and power of hearing these beloved so ngs in that quieter\, more vulnerable form. That connection sparked the creation of Rings: The Acoustic Sessions\, and the passion fans showed f or it made the decision to build an entire tour around it an easy one. R ings: The Acoustic Sessions is a beautiful and timeless album reimaginin g Toad the Wet Sprocket's most beloved songs\, revisiting their hits and fan favorites with intimate\, acoustic arrangements that highlight thei r enduring warmth and honesty. Like the rings of a tree marking each sea son of growth\, these songs trace the band's musical journey — and our o wn — with grace\, depth\, and hope. The fourteen-track collection takes their most powerful and enduring songs and rebuilds them from the ground up. This is not a nostalgia record. It's a living document of a band st ill deeply invested in their own catalog. “It was a lot of fun figuring out how the original electric parts would work on the acoustic guitar\,” says guitarist Todd Nichols. “Sometimes that meant changing up the part s or even playing different solos so everything felt right in these new versions.” The critics have taken notice. Ink 19 praised the album\, not ing that Glen Phillips' vocals sound “as warm and true today as they did 35 years ago\,” and that the reimagined songs lose none of the original s' vibrant potency. Glide Magazine declared that with Rings: The Acousti c Sessions\, Toad the Wet Sprocket “reaffirms the veracity of a longstan ding maxim: the proof of a good song is the extent to which it will acco mmodate a variety of arrangements\,” adding that the band “at once reass erts the validity of its lifeline and transcends it.” Bassist Dean Dinni ng framed the band's bold approach with a question worth sitting with: “ People always think of an acoustic record as stripped down\, but what if it wasn't?” The answer is Rings: The Acoustic Tour — an intimate\, once -in-a-lifetime fan event celebrating four decades of songs that have mea nt everything to the people who love them. “If you're feeling isolated a nd you need to gather yourself back to remember how much you love your l ife\, music is your friend\,” says Glen Phillips. “We want people who co me to our shows to feel at home for a while.” Don't miss this very speci al night with Toad the Wet Sprocket on their Rings: The Acoustic Tour. A limited number of VIP packages are available each night\, as well as 40 th Anniversary exclusive merch. You can also catch Toad on tour all summ er with Men at Work + select headline dates. For tickets & more info\, v isit ToadTheWetSprocket.com.\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/ev ent/010064BCE74E2795\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/5efd5750-44ff- 40f2-89a3-7f8805490432 LOCATION:The Wilbur\, Boston\, MA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/5efd5750-44ff-40f2-89a3-7f880549043 2 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR