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Florence + The Machine just finished up leg five of the High As Hope tour (U.S., Canada and Mexico), which started almost a year ago, just after the band’s fourth album was released. The jaunt concludes late September with two shows at the almost 2,000-year-old Herodion Theatre in Athens, Greece. MAGNET photographer Chris Sikich caught up with Ms. Welch and band at Columbia, Md.’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, which turns 52 on Sunday.
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