Dave Matthews Band with special guest Amos Lee

JUST ANNOUNCED: Dave Matthews Band will take 2011 off from touring. Don't miss your chance to experience the concert this summer! Get your LAWN tickets now! The group-s Platinum-certified 2009 album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (RCA), is nominated for two GRAMMY awards ? ?Album of the Year? and ?Best Rock Album.? Hailed as ?their most electric album yet? (Rolling Stone, ****) and ?spiritual and spirited? (People, ?Critic-s Choice?), Big Whiskey features some of the last studio recordings of founding member/saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who passed away in August of 2008. The group toured throughout 2009 in support of the album, delivering some of the most emotional, powerful performances of its career, as captured in the box set Europe 2009. Named the top-selling touring artist of the decade by Billboard and Pollstar, Dave Matthews Band has always been renowned for its live performances. ?In his lyrics and a voice that-s both robust and melancholy, Mr. Matthews ponders the gap between public problems and personal pleasures-Yet the band rarely broods for long; the music stays brisk and upbeat,? said The New York Times. Dave Matthews Band ? comprising Carter Beauford (drums), Stefan Lessard (bass), Dave Matthews (vocals, guitar) and Boyd Tinsley (violin) ? has sold a collective 37 million CDs and DVDs combined.With Big Whiskey-s debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 in June of 2009, Dave Matthews Band became one of only two groups in chart history to have five consecutive studio albums enter atop the chart. Big Whiskey was among the Top 5 best-selling albums on iTunes in 2009.