P1Harmony announces North America tour stops
P1Harmony shared plans for its third international tour, which begins next month, via agency FNC Entertainment on Tuesday.
The group is slated to tour North America for 'P1ustage H: Most Wanted' and the first stop will be Newark on Sept. 27.
It will then visit six more in the US — Fairfax, Fort Worth, Duluth, Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland — and Toronto, Canada until Oct. 21. The upcoming tour marks its debut at Intuit Dome in LA, where it will be the second K-pop musician to perform, after NCT Dream.
On Oct. 24, it will begin touring Latin America going live in four cities: Sao Paulo, Lima, Santiago and Monterrey, Mexico.
The band will kick off the tour with a two-day show in Seoul next month and is planning to perform in four cities in Asia as well in Sydney, Australia.
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