Vans Warped Tour Ticket Presale Started March 15

(CelebrityAcecess MediaWire) —
The Vans Warped Tour, presented by Samsung and Cingular, started its Internet presale on March 15. Tickets are available at www.warpedtour.com for only $19.99 plus 25 cents for the Hollywood Heart charity and a convenience charge. Fans who participate in the presale will receive one copy of the Vans Warped Tour compilation CD in the mail for every ticket purchased. After the limited presale tickets sell out or when tickets officially go on sale in a market, the early-bird special will expire and tickets will return to their regular price of approximately $25, plus applicable Ticketmaster charges.

Bands confirmed for this year's tour include: Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Dropkick Murphys, Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne Heights, Motion City Soundtrack, MxPx, My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail, Strung Out, The Bled, The Explosion, The Matches, The Offspring, The Starting Line, Thrice, Transplants, Tsunami Bomb, and Underoath, among others.

Returning fan favorite attractions include: Reverse Day Care (air-conditioned area where kids can drop off their parents), Fanzine Region, Locker Box, Monster VIP truck and the Button Booth. In addition to the two main stages (appropriately named the "Teal" Stage and "Brian" Stage after their longtime stage managers) and the second or Hurley Stage, side stages include: Volcom Stage, the Ernie Ball Stage (now in its ninth year), Take Action Stage and charity/awareness area, Girlz Garage (sponsored by ELLEgirl), Kevin Says Stage (sponsored by Hot Topic), Code Of The Cutz (hip hop tent), Smartpunks Stage and Space Station Stage.

Vans Warped Tour itinerary:

6/18 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre

6/19 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre

6/21 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion

6/22 Kansas City, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

6/24 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Centre

6/25 Houston, TX Reliant Arena

6/26 Selma, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

6/28 Las Cruces, NM N.M.S.U. Practice Field

6/29 Peoria, AZ Peoria Sports Complex

6/30 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre

7/1 Long Beach, CA Cal State Long Beach

7/2 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32

7/3 Ventura, CA Seaside Park

7/4 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center

7/6 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairplex

7/7 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre

7/8 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre

7/9 George, WA Gorge Amphitheatre

7/10 Deer Island, OR Columbia Meadows

7/12 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium

7/14 Calgary, ALB Race City Speedway

7/15 Bozeman, MT Valley Ice Garden

7/16 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fair

7/17 Denver, CO Invesco Field at Mile High

7/20 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center

7/21 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheatre

7/22 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center Lot

7/23 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center

7/24 Minneapolis, MN Metrodome

7/26 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes PAC

7/28 Quebec, QC Colisee Pepsi Parking Lot

7/30 Toronto, ON Molson Park

7/31 Pontiac, MI Pontiac Silverdome

8/1 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion

8/3 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre

8/4 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Fairgrounds

8/5 St. Petersburg, FL Vinoy Park

8/6 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

8/7 Orlando, FL Tinker Field

8/8 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

8/9 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

8/10 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge

8/11 Scranton, PA Montage Mountain Amphitheatre

8/12 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront

8/13 New York, NY Randall's Island

8/14 Englishtown, NJ Old Bridge Township Raceway Park

8/15 Northampton, MA Three County Fairgrounds

–Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen