With special guest Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters play the Santa Barbara Bowl on Friday, June 28, with special guest GRACE POTTER and the NOCTURNALS. Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 27th at noon.

Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters has announced its first North American tour dates. This dynamic and powerful new incarnation of Plant’s musical vision has been touring the world, most recently in Australia and New Zealand. The Brisbane Times said “What’s going on is further proof that Plant is far more imaginative, playful and adventurous than any cliche, a man who’s absorbed all the music he’s loved and played and sought out the musicians to explore that,” while Adelaide Now hailed, “The Sensational Space Shifters are everything their name suggests.”

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One of a generation of British kids, drawn without rhyme or reason, to sounds from a far away world. A world of field holler, despair, Levee camp and chain- gang moans; of Saturday night fish-fry and Juke Joint foot stomp. A million miles lay between the brooding pulse of Mississippi Delta life and the sanitized shelter of the timid English boy, circa 1962.

Fifty years on - drawing from a lifetime of adventures, tracking the dark, beautiful resonator, Plant follows his heart and lifts his voice higher and joyous ever away. A voice of experience and learning from the sounds of Southside Chicago Electric Blues; of Griot mantras from West Africa; from Louisiana Dance Halls; Greenwich Village Folk hangover; Haight Ashbury indulgences; Moroccan medina breakbeat; the early English radical techno materials, Texas two-step and Bristol Dubstep.

Before his recent projects in Nashville with Alison Krauss and Band of Joy, Plant worked alongside the very interesting force, “Strange Sensation”, recording the critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy nominated albums - Dreamland and Mighty Rearranger. From this platform, Sensational Space Shifters has developed. Now together these confederates and conspirators dig deeper and more intensely, always twisting and turning, bringing the past into a brilliant technicolour present.

Grace Potter is the lead singer of powerhouse rock quintetGrace Potter & the Nocturnals. Potter has been on a steady rise since her band formed in 2002 while students as St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. Long praised as one of the best live acts in music today, Potter made headlines in late 2010 after being a featured performer alongside Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and Sugarland on VH1’s “Divas Salute The Troops.“Grace and her band the Nocturnals recently wrapped up a nearly sold out U.S. headlining tour. GPN’s fourth studio album, The Lion The Beast The Beat, was released in June debuting at #17 in the country on Billboard’s Top 200 chart and #10 on Billboard’s Digital chart. Current single “Stars” reached #1 on iTunes Rock Song chart.Don’t miss your chance to seeRobert Plant and The Sensational Space Shiftersplay theSanta Barbara Bowl on Friday, June 28th, with special guestGRACE POTTER and the NOCTURNALS. Tickets range from $44.00 to $74.00, plus applicable service charges.