Vampire Weekend has four shows in New Jersey. How much do tickets cost?

Vampire Weekend is returning to their roots.The beloved indie group — who just launched the second leg of their ‘Only God Was Above Us Tour’ — announced that, due to overwhelming demand, they are playing four concerts at lead singer Ezra Koenig’s hometown-adjacent Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ.These highly-anticipated concerts are set to take place Monday, Sept.15, Tuesday, Sept.

16, Wednesday, Sept.17 and Thursday, Sept.

18 at the intimate venue, which can only fit 2,137 audience members.As an added dose of nostalgia, Koenig’s high school band, The Sophisticuffs, will open all four shows.“Sophisticuffs was a Glen Ridge, NJ band active from roughly 1999-2002,” the band shared via Instagram.“Ezra was a member ages 15-17 along with his good friends Wes, Steve, Dan and Andrei.They played the vast majority of their shows in Montclair, usually at Serendipity (in the Congregational Church) or at the Possible Side Effects improv events under the Clairidge Theater.

They dabbled in surf, post-rock, Christmas, punk and pop music.Ezra is thrilled to reunite onstage with the band for the first time since high school.

You can expect to hear [their] songs like ‘Chicken Dance,’ ‘Hello Professor,’ and ‘Great Expectations.'”While it’s likely Sophisticuffs will stick to a fairly strict set list, we’d expect anything but for Vampire Weekend.At their most recent shows, they’ve been mixing things up and ending their sets with all-over-the-map encores where they play a number of covers requested by the audience, as reported by Set List FM.If this sounds like the freewheeling show for you, tickets are available for all four homecoming Vampire Weekend New Jersey concerts as of today.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on seats for any one Wellmont Theater show was $83 including fees on Vivid Seats.Their other three shows have tickets starting anywhere from $111 to $132 including fees.Not bad to see Vampire Weekend and Th...

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Publisher: New York Post

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