Alice Cooper has announced that guitarist Orianthi will be joining his band on the Too Close for Comfort Tour from January 31st through February 16th, filling in for Nita Strauss.

Orianthi toured with Coopr from 2011 to 2014, along with longtime band members Chuck Garric, Glen Sobel, Tommy Henriksen, and Ryan Roxie. Cooper says in a statement: “When Orianthi moved on to pursue her own career in 2014, we were lucky to find Nita. Over the past decade, Nita, Chuck, and Tommy have also launched their own projects, and we always try to coordinate our schedule so we can keep the band together, but these shows came up after Nita had already committed to another tour. So I reached out to Orianthi, and thankfully she was available to jump back in, so we’re all really looking forward to doing these shows with her. I’m so fortunate to always have such great musicians to work with.”

Additional dates with Nita Strauss include shows on May 9th at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio, and August 15th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Lincoln Financial Field with My Chemical Romance. More dates are expected to be added.  Head HERE for information.

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