Katy Perry Announces Opening Acts for Witness: the Tour
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KATY PERRY ANNOUNCES OPENING ACTS FOR WITNESS: THE TOUR PURITY RING TO OPEN ON NOVEMBER 24 IN SALT LAKE CITY, UT AT VIVINT SMART HOME ARENA Tickets are on sale now US tour presented by Today, Katy Perry announced the opening acts for her highly-anticipated WITNESS: The Tour, produced by AEG Presents. Purity Ring will be the opening act for the November 24th Salt Lake City, UT concert at Vivint Smart Home Arena. WITNESS: The Tour is an imaginative trip from outer-space to inner-space, from the planets to the bottom of our oceans, and a musical journey through Katy Perry’s biggest milestones and mega-hits right up to her latest album. The dramatically original staging means that there isn’t a bad seat in the house, when Katy brings out her band and dancers, along with all the bells and whistles. Tickets are on sale now. All U.S. concerts on WITNESS: The Tour are presented by Xfinity. Additional sponsors are Citi, COVERGIRL and KATY PERRY PARFUMS. For more information and tickets visit http://katyperry.com. About Purity Ring Purity Ring is an electronic pop duo originally from Edmonton, Canada. In 2012 they released debut album Shrines; a cohesive, beguiling and wholly unique universe of what the band called ‘Future Pop’. At the center of the amniotic swirl of Shrines was an undeniable nucleus of crystalline pop which presciently suggested both indie and popular music to come. Critics were effusive: ‘Best New Music’ from Pitchfork and praise from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and NPR, among others. They quickly amassed a rabid fanbase, toured relentlessly and sold out shows worldwide. On 2015's ‘Another Eternity,’ Purity Ring traded the gorgeously claustrophobic atmospheres of Shrines for wide-open, muscular vistas of sound and luminous, up-front vocals. Crafting a lyrical universe of “sweat and dreams” populated by seacastles, rattling spines, and weeping drawers, Megan James wielded concrete imagery and metaphor with increasingly direct, startling resonance. Corin Roddick's gifts for evocative melody remained intact, but his drum work and use of space were been completely reforged: immaculately built and focused in service of the song. On July 24th, 2017--the 5th anniversary of Shrines' release date--the band released a new single, "Asido". It is in many ways the perfect synthesis of Shrines brooding production and Another Eternity's bold, expansive sheen. Though they are now working at a higher resolution, Purity Ring remain hands-on with every aspect of their project. As usual, the band produced and recorded "Asido" themselves. With every step forward they take, Purity Ring actualize their vision while sounding utterly and undeniably like themselves. WITNESS: The Tour is Katy’s first run since the sold-out, 151-date Prismatic World Tour, which concluded in 2015 and was hailed by Rolling Stone as "a show to damage retinas and blow minds." Katy made her Capitol Records debut with 2008’s One of the Boys after signing to the label in 2007. She cemented her status as a global superstar with the follow-up album, Teenage Dream (2010). PRISM, her 2013 album, debuted at No. 1 on iTunes in 100 countries and has sold more than 12.5 million adjusted albums worldwide. With the singles “Roar," “Firework,” and “Dark Horse” each surpassing the 10 million threshold including song sales and streams, Katy is the only artist to earn three RIAA Digital Single Diamond Awards. In her 10 years with Capitol, she has racked up a cumulative 18+ billion streams alongside worldwide sales of more than 40+ million adjusted albums and 125+ million tracks. She is the most-followed person globally on Twitter. AEG Presents is one of the largest live music companies in the world. The company is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performances, including producing and promoting global and regional concert tours, music events and world-renowned festivals. AEG Presents promotes more than 8,000 shows annually worldwide. For more information visit www.aegpresents.com For additional information on Katy Perry, contact: Ambrosia Healy, Capitol Music Group / [email protected] Kristen Kanopka, Capitol Music Group / [email protected] For AEG Presents and information on the tour, contact: Fran Curtis / [email protected] Cara Hutchison / [email protected] or visit: http://katyperry.com http://twitter.com/katyperry http://facebook.com/katyperry http://instagram.com/katyperry http://youtube.com/katyperry http://www.vevo.com/artist/katy-perry For publicity materials please visit: http://www.umgb2b.com .