Monuments Performing Tour Without Vocalist Chris Barretto

Monuments has issued the following statement about performing as an instrumental unit on upcoming tour dates:

"Due to some very serious personal issues, our man Chris will not be making it out with us on The Contortionist tour. He needs some time to get these issues taken care of - and we respect that and want to give him the time to get his head straight.

"We will be moving forward with the tour anyways and will be doing it INSTRUMENTAL! Something we've had to do a few times already - so we are confident that we will smash it and make you all proud. To make it a little more awesome for our friends out there, and to make up for the lack of vocals, we will play some lesser performed tracks from 'Gnosis/The Amanuensis\ albums, AND we will also be playing TWO new tracks from album #3...

"Unfortunately in order to do this right we need to rehearse some more - so sadly we will miss our shows at South By South Death tonight and Corpus Christi on the 18th, but we will be playing So What Music Festival and then smashing it with The Contortionist, Entheos, and sleepmakeswaves across North America until May ... see you on the road!"

(3/24-4/28 - Monuments & Entheos)
(4/1, 4/4, 4/8, & 4/9 - Monuments, Entheos, Sleepmakeswaves)

3/20 Grand Prairie, TX - So What?! Music Festival
3/21 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
3/23 Phoenix, AZ - Joe's Grotto
3/24 Ventura, CA - Ventura Music Hall
3/25 Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
3/26 San Diego, CA SOMA
3/27 Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk
3/29 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
3/30 Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
4/01 Salt Lake City, UT - The Loading Dock
4/04 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
4/08 Cleveland, OH - The Agora Ballroom
4/09 Cincinnati, OH - The Mad Frog
4/10 Rochester, NY - Waterstreet Music Hall
4/02 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
4/03 Merriam, KS – Aftershock
4/05 Minneapolis, MN - The Cabooze
4/06 Chicago, IL – Subterranean
4/07 Grand Rapids, MI - The Stache at Intersection
4/11 Pittsburgh, PA - Altar Bar
4/12 Toronto, ON - The Hard Luck
4/13 Montreal, QC - Le Foufounes Electriques
4/14 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
4/15 New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre
4/16 Philadelphia, - PA Voltage Lounge
4/18 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Sound Stage
4/19 Richmond, VA - The Canal Club
4/20 Greensboro, NC - Greene Street Club
4/21 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade – Hell
4/22 Jacksonville, FL - 1904 Music Hall
4/23 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
4/24 Orlando, FL – BackBooth
4/26 Houston, TX - Scout Bar
4/27 San Antonio, - TX Korova
4/28 Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street Collective
4/29 St. Louis, MO – Fubar
4/30 Indianapolis, IN -The Emerson Theater
5/01 Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew's Hall - The Shelter