Campus Consciousness Tour featuring Passion Pit October 30, 2010

The Greensboro Coliseum Complex has announced it will host the 2010 Fall Campus Consciousness Tour featuring Passion Pit on Saturday, October 30th at 8:00 pm.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, August 27that 10:00 am at www.ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000 or at the Greensboro Coliseum box office.

Half rock tour, half environmental campaign, CCT aims to inspire and activate students in an electric atmosphere while leaving a positive impact on each community the tour visits. In addition to educating and mobilizing students, the tour includes many greening elements and is run to have a minimal environmental footprint. Guster’s Adam Gardner and his wife, Lauren Sullivan created the first annual “Campus Consciousness Tour” in 2006 as a project of their environmental non-profit, Reverb. The Campus Consciousness Tour’s aim is to educate, inspire, and activate students, and above all leave a positive impact on each community and college/university that the tour reaches.

ABOUT PASSION PIT

Michael Angelakos (vocals and keyboards) hears music in his head and knows exactly how he wants it to sound. The young composer/performer already has created two studio masterpieces – “Manners” and “Chunk of Change” – and he doesn’t plan on stopping there. With his fellow musicians in Passion Pit, Angelakos is taking his perfectionist pop vision to a whole new level in concert.

Within mere months of forming, Passion Pit became an in-demand concert attraction, opening for high-profile bands such as Death Cab For Cutie, Girl Talk and Yelle, while mostly headlining their own sold-out shows. The learning curve for Passion Pit was short and steep. The pressure was unquestionably intense, especially for all shows leading up to the release of “Manners.”

Soulful, memorable, danceable, earnest and unabashedly pop, the music Michael Angelakos delivers on Passion Pit’s latest album, “Manners,” reveals a complex and challenging 21st century sound. The album is intricate in its construction with exquisitely soaring hooks and melodies coupled with enigmatic lyrics flowing straight from the id. Angelakos’ mission for the album was to mask emotion with the immediacy and irresistible nature of plain and simple pop music.

In a little more than a year, Passion Pit has evolved from a one-man dorm room project into a burgeoning band that has surged above the buzz, capable of selling out three nights at New York’s Terminal 5 (January 2010), a night at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and two nights at the Chicago Theater (Spring 2010). Passion Pit has even landed high-profile slots on a series of international festivals including Australia’s Big Day Out and the UK’s Glastonbury Festival as well as North American festivals including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Coachella.