Ceremonials Tour

The Ceremonials Tour was the second concert tour by the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The tour included performances at music festivals because it is lead singer Florence Welch's favourite way to perform live. Welch had originally planned to spend over a year touring for Ceremonials (their previous tour lasted almost three and a half years) before announcing that the December 2012 dates would be the final performances of the tour. On 25 February 2013, it was announced that Florence and the Machine would be playing at the Coke Live Music Festival in Poland on 10 August 2013, and, on 26 March 2013, it was announced that the band would be playing at Chime for Change's "The Sound of Change Live" concert at Twickenham Stadium in London alongside Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding and Haim, amongst others.

The Ceremonials Tour was a critical and commercial success. Pollstar announced that it was the 40th best-selling tour in the world in 2012 having earned $31.8 million worldwide and having sold 618,436 tickets. Paste magazine ranked the tour the seventh best tour of 2012.

Opening acts

 * Laura Marling – (Chicago Theatre)
 * Two Door Cinema Club – (Midland Theatre)
 * Cowboy Indian Bear – (Midland Theatre)
 * The Head and the Heart – (WaMu Theater)
 * Mat Kearney – (WaMu Theater)
 * The Horrors – (UK & Ireland March 2012)
 * Spector – (UK & Ireland March 2012, excluding 9, 10 March, and mainland Europe)
 * Theme Park – (9 March)
 * Alpines – 10 March (Alexandra Palace)
 * Blood Orange – (Spring North American dates, Australia dates and New Zealand)
 * The Walkmen – (Summer North American dates)
 * The Maccabees – (Fall North American dates)
 * The Weeknd – (Fall North American dates)
 * Snow Patrol – (Phoenix Park, co-headlining)
 * The Temper Trap – (Phoenix Park)
 * Haim – (UK & Ireland December 2012)
 * Yna – (Gaston Park)

Tour dates

 * Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
 * This concert was a part of "MasterCard Priceless Music Series"
 * This concert was a part of "93XRT Holiday Concert"
 * This concert was a part of "The Nite The Buzz Stole XMAS"
 * This concert was a part of "KMTT's Winter Warmth"
 * This concert was a part of "Live 105's Not So Silent Night"
 * This concert was a part of "91X Wrex The Halls Night"
 * This concert was a part of "22nd Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas"
 * This concert was a part of "Summer Soul Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Teenage Cancer Trust Concert 2012"
 * This concert was a part of "Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Beale Street Music Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Vivid Sydney Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Hurricane Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Southside Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "BBC Radio One's Hackney Weekend"
 * This concert was a part of "Openair St Gallen Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Main Square Festival"


 * This concert was a part of "Rock Werchter"
 * This concert was a part of "Open'er Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "T in the Park"
 * This concert was a part of "Rock in Rio"
 * This concert was a part of "Sandance 2013"
 * This concert was a part of "The Sound of Change Live" concert
 * This concert was a part of "Osheaga 2012"
 * This concert was a part of "Lollapalooza"
 * This concert was a part of "Øyafestivalen"
 * This concert was a part of "Way Out West Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Reading and Leeds Festivals"
 * This concert was a part of "Deluna Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Austin City Limits Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Music Midtown 2012"
 * This concert was a part of "Bestival"
 * This concert was a part of the "Corona Capital Festival"
 * This concert was a part of "Radio 2 in Concert" series and broadcast on BBC Red Button.
 * This concert was a part of the "Coke Live Music Festival 2013"
 * This concert is a part of the "Orange Warsaw Festival 2014"

Background and reception
Florence and the Machine played their first performance in support of Ceremonials at New York City's The Boom Boom Room. The performance was sponsored by Interview Magazine, which Florence Welch appeared on the October 2011 cover of.

The band played at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, Australia in November where Florence performed in a Jason Wu Fall 2011 dress. The Daily Telegraph reported that the Seymour Centre show was sold-out and called the performance "wonderful" and "another awesome music memory".