Guster is celebrating its 25th anniversary (and Guster Day) with four shows at the Paradise
The alt-rock group formed in the early ‘90s at Tufts is coming home once more.
When Mayor Marty Walsh declared January 15 Guster Day in 2015, the band celebrated with a performance at City Hall and an impromptu performance with Keytar Bear in Harvard Square. On Tuesday, the alt-rock group, founded at Tufts in the early ’90s, announced in a Facebook post that it will commemorate Guster Day and the band’s 25th anniversary with four consecutive nights of shows at the Paradise Rock Club in Allston.Weekend passes to all four shows — scheduled for January 12, 13, 14, and 15, 2017 — will be available for $125 starting Wednesday at 12 p.m., while tickets for the individual shows will cost $35 and will go on sale starting Friday, November 11 at noon. Doors for each show will open at 7 p.m., with the shows kicking off at 8 p.m. Each show will also feature a different opening act. January 12 will have Steven Page, former lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies. January 13 will feature female rock group And The Kids. And the 14th and 15th will feature two acts Guster once opened for at the Paradise: The Bogmen and Wesley Stace, respectively.“Back when we were students at Tufts, playing our instruments in Harvard Square on weekends and praying for ‘off campus gigs’ — The Paradise stepped up, took us under their wing, and invited us to open for national acts that came through,” the band wrote on Facebook. “In 1994 and 1995 we got to open for Rusted Root, Jackopierce, The Bogmen, John Wesley Harding, and Acoustic Junction at our favorite local club, and by the time we graduated (and changed our name from GUS to GUSTER) we were headlining the Paradise ourselves. It is a venue that we feel an umbilical attachment to.”
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