Bergen Performing Arts Center Presents BARENAKED LADIES 2017 TOUR

Only New Jersey appearance! "Gotta see the show, 'cause then you'll know," sings Ed Robertson on Barenaked Ladies' chart-topping hit, "One Week," a song featured on the band's new live album BNL Rocks Red Rocks, recorded at the fabled Morrison, CO, Amphitheater on June 10, 2015 during the band's Last Summer On Earth tour.

That's as good a description as any about seeing these rock icons in concert, an experience filled with the kind of energy, precision, finesse and outright celebration among its fans that is a tribute to Barenaked Ladies' remarkable longevity. The band, Ed Robertson on guitar, vocals, Jim Creeggan on bass, vocals, Kevin Hearn on keyboards, guitar, vocals, Tyler Stewart on drums, vocals, are still together after nearly three decades producing 14 studio albums which have collectively sold more than 14 million copies, won eight Juno Awards, earned multiple Grammy nominations, a U.S. chart-topping single ("One Week") and the theme song to one of TV's most popular shows, The Big Bang Theory.

"I don't think there's a secret," Robertson explained to People magazine last year when asked how BNL managed to not just survive, but thrive, continuing to sell out venues wherever they go. "It's work. You've got to respect each other, you got to give each other space, but you also have to support each other... This band learned early on to communicate, right from the beginning we didn't want to burn out. We wanted to keep making music."

"We appreciate what we do more than ever," explains Robertson. "We're not looking for external validation. We're enjoying working together and we're doing some of the best shows of our entire career."

"Our fans have been on this journey with us, so we've kind of grown up together," says Ed. "It's a special relationship, within the band and between our fans. Every band says they have the best fans, but we actually do. And we know that because other bands tell us that."

"It's not easy to be hyperactive, brooding and whimsical all at once," the New York Times pop critic Jon Pareles once wrote about BNL. "But the Barenaked Ladies do just that."

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