MUSIC NEWS - Legendary music supergroup Fleetwood Mac will be embarking on their first concert tour in five years starting on March 1, 2009 at Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena. The tour is to include all Mac's many greatest hits from the band. "We love our band and think the title of the tour "UNLEASHED" perfectly describes how we all feel when we get on stage together -- especially in 2009. We're so happy to get back out on the road, perform everyone's favorite songs and see our fans," said the band in a joint statement.

Tickets for the tour go on sale to the public on December 15th at livenation.com and ticketmaster.com. The first sixteen dates of the "UNLEASHED" tour will include stops in NYC, Boston, Washington and Montreal, it was confirmed today by tour producer, Live Nation, (tour dates listed below). Fleetwood Mac, the multi-Grammy award winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will continue the "UNLEASHED" tour throughout the Spring and Summer. Additional dates will be announced.

In other great Fleetwood Mac news, the 'RUMOURS ' CD is scheduled to be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD boxed set on Reprise Records in conjunction with the tour dates. The boxed set will include previously unreleased tracks recorded during the making of 'RUMOURS' as well as a DVD with never before seen footage of the band.

FLEETWOOD MAC 'UNLEASHED' TOUR DATES 2009 (all dates subject to change) -

Sunday, March 1st Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
Tuesday, March 3rd St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
Thursday, March 5th Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Sunday, March 8th Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Tuesday, March 10th Washington, DC Verizon Center
Wednesday, March 11th Boston, MA TD Banknorth Arena
Friday, March 13th Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
Saturday, March 14th Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Monday, March 16th Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena
Tuesday, March 17th Albany, NY Times Union Center
Thursday, March 19th New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Saturday, March 21st East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Tuesday, March 24th Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place
Wednesday, March 25th Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Thursday, March 26th Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre