ROBERT PLANT And ALISON KRAUSS Schedule European Tour Dates

December 13, 2007

According to NME.com, LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss will embark on a European tour in May 2008 to promote their collaborative CD, "Raising Sand". In addition to the "Raising Sand" material, they'll perform songs from their catalogs — including LED ZEPPELIN's "When the Levee Breaks" and "Black Dog".

Confirmed dates are as follows:

May 05 - Birmingham, UK @ NIA
May 07 - Manchester, UK @ Apollo
May 08 - Cardiff, UK @ International Arena
May 10 - Düsseldorf, GER @ Philipshalle
May 11 - Brussells, BEL @ Forest National Club
May 13 - Paris, FRA @ Le Grand Rex Theatre
May 14 - Amsterdam, NETH @ Heineken Music Hall
May 16 - Stockholm, SWE @ Hovet (Ice Hall)
May 18 - Oslo, NOR @ Spektrum
May 19 - Bergen, NOR @ Bergenshalle
May 22 - London, UK @ Wembley Arena

Tickets go on sale on Friday, December 14 at 9:00 a.m. GMT.

According to Nashville's NBC affiliate WSMV-TV, Plant and Krauss will perform at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee next June.

A disc of tender, mostly acoustic duets, "Raising Sand" — which was produced by T Bone Burnett — debuted at No. 2 n The Billboard 200 chart in late October, becoming an unexpected hit.

"Raising Sand" includes versions of the EVERLY BROTHERS' "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)", TOM WAITS and KATHLEEN BRENNAN's "Trampled Rose" and "Please Read the Letter", first released on the 1998 PLANT/JIMMY PAGE album "Walking Into Clarksdale".

According to Billboard.com, Plant and Krauss first performed together in 2004 at a Leadbelly tribute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but it took several years before they found time to team up in the studio with Burnett in Nashville and Los Angeles.

Tennessean.com reported that Plant and Krauss taped an episode of "CMT Crossroads" in October at The Mill at Lebanon in Tennessee that will air at a later date.

Plant and Krauss were interviewed on BBC's "Breakfast" show on October 31 about "Raising Sand" CD. Watch the nine-minute segment below.

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