Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise To Play WesBanco Arena March 2
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Dropkick Murphys' rollicking brand of Celtic punk music will make its way to WesBanco Arena in March.
The band -- Quincy, Massachusetts-born in 1996 -- will perform in Wheeling on March 2, along with fellow punk legends Pennywise and Dublin rock band The Scratch. A venue pre-sale will be held Thursday with the password DKMWV, while tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at www.etix.com/ticket/p/63375493/dropkick-murphys-wheeling-wesbanco-arena.
The March concert is part of Dropkick Murphys' annual U.S. St. Patrick's Day Tour, starting this year on Feb. 13, in San Jose, California, and finishing with a three-night stay at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston on March 15-17.
The band has released 12 studio albums, the most recent being in May with "Okemah Rising." Three of their albums -- "Going Out In Style," "Signed And Sealed In Blood," and "11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory" - reached the Billboard Top 10. They are most known for their songs "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" and "The State of Massachusetts."
Pennywise, based in California, has nine Billboard Top 100 albums to its credit. Rolling Stone ranked the band's 1993 album "Unknown Road" at No. 35 on the magazine's list of the top 50 pop-punk albums of all time.