Greta Van Fleet, Ida Mae

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Travis Shinn

Greta Van Fleet - 2018

Greta Van Fleet (left to right): Danny Wagner, Jake Kiszka, Josh Kiszka, Sam Kiszka.

Bands don’t always need to reinvent the wheel. Case in point: Greta Van Fleet, a young Michigan foursome currently modeled strongly on hard rock forebears Led Zeppelin. They’ve got chops to burn, as displayed on a January Saturday Night Live appearance, and also snagged a 2019 Grammy for Best Rock Album. For more, read Michael Popke’s story, in which guitarist Sam Kiszka reports their next album will feature a more experimental vibe. It will be fun to see what the rock kids come up with. Ida Mae opens.

press release: “MARCH OF THE PEACEFUL ARMY” tour, welcomed By 94.1 WJJO and The Resistance

Doors 5:30pm | Show 7:00pm

Tickets may be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-8000. Tickets may be purchased in-person at the Coliseum Box Office, Orpheum Theater Box Office, and The Sylvee Box Office. Hours vary by box office location. $204.50 – Breese Stevens Field VIP; $54.50 – General Admission

These tour dates are in support of the band’s debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army,  out October 19, 2018 (Lava/Republic Records).  Music fans were first introduced to Greta Van Fleet Josh Kiszka/vocals, Jake Kiszka/guitars, Sam Kiszka/bass & keys, and Danny Wagner/drums - in March 2017 with the release of the band's debut single "Highway Tune" that held the #1 position on U.S. Rock Radio Charts for five consecutive weeks and on Canada's Active Rock Radio Charts for nine straight weeks.  Twenty-seventeen went on to be a wild ride of sold-out concerts in North America and Europe, glowing press, accolades from a slew of fellow artists from Elton John to Nikki Sixx to Justin Bieber, millions of YouTube video plays and Spotify streams, two #1 EPs, a Gold record in Canada, and most importantly, the genesis of an extraordinary connection with their fans.

All four young musicians are from the tiny Michigan hamlet of Frankenmuth known for its family-style chicken dinners and the world’s largest Christmas store. All four were raised on their parents’ extensive vinyl collections which helped give birth to the music they make today: a high-energy hybrid of rock’n’roll, blues and soul.

The album’s first radio track, “When The Curtain Falls,” took a mere three weeks to explode into the Top 10 at Rock Radio and is currently at #3 on the Rock Radio charts. The song has accumulated more than 18.5-million streams, and four million-plus views of the track’s companion music video.

Greta Van Fleet’s shared message with their music is to spread “peace, love and unity,” and their collective goal is to have people walk out of their live shows feeling invigorated, energized and exhilarated, and to take that feeling out into the world.

Husband and wife duo Ida Mae (Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean), have announced new U.S. tour dates opening for Greta Van Fleet this May. "We were a little shocked when we were invited to play with them, but then it quickly made sense," Turpin says. "Their dad was in a blues band, plays harmonica. They grew up with Stax and Otis Redding, all the same blues things I did. A lot of their heroes are British rock 'n' roll bands, who during the '60s fell in love with blues coming out of Chicago. So it makes sense that Greta would be into us, and those shows really work out well." The group will release their debut album Chasing Lights for June 7 via Thirty Tigers.

Ida Mae have also shared a new video for the title track from their forthcoming album, "Chasing Lights". The band writes, "The video was directed by our close friend Tim Hyland in and around a beach in Norfolk that’s close our hearts... We wanted it to be elegant and simple that pushed a sense of mystery and escapism. The director's obsession with The Twilight Zone leaked out the edges in this video, creating a fairly surreal “lost in space” feel... The song itself is about someone you love,  slipping away from you by choice or by design. It’s about someone in self destruct mode searching for something beyond their situation, trying to get lost, trying to escape their surroundings."