The Dear Hunter in Manchester

The Dear Hunter is an American progressive rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2005 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Casey Crescenzo. The band is best known for the Acts, a sequence of concept albums beginning with Act I: The Lake South, The River North, as well as records including Migrant and Antimai. In 2012, the band performed the complete Color Spectrum project at the Somerville Theatre, a concert later issued as a live release. The Dear Hunter supported Coheed and Cambria on the 2017 Neverender GAIBSIV tour, then headlined The Acts Tour in 2019, centering its concerts on the five-album narrative.