Melanie Martinez announces 2023 North American tour

It looks like Melanie Martinez’s “Cry Baby” character is coming back to the touring stage, this time as a four-eyed, pink-skinned ethereal creature.

Martinez announced the upcoming tour on social media on Monday, sharing news with a short video set in the same mystical forest as her other ‘Portals’ related posts, with audio from the song ‘Nymphology’ from ‘Portals’.

The ‘Portals’ tour will span 29 North American cities, beginning on May 30 in Denver, Colorado. She’ll then make her way to the West Coast of the United States, heading to the Los Angeles area on June 9 in Inglewood.

She’ll then shift over to the East Coast on June 20 in Tampa, Florida, stopping in New York on June 28, and ending with two shows in Canada, July 14 in Toronto, and July 15 in Montreal.

The upcoming tour will be Martinez’s first major tour dates since the ‘K–12 Tour’ was cut short as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tour will be in support of her new album of the same name, which was released on Friday, March 31.

The artist is fresh off performing a handful of shows in South America at the series of Lollapalooza shows in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile between March 17th and 26th.

At these performances, Martinez was seen fully dressed as the new iteration of her “Cry Baby” persona, complete with spray-painted pink skin, and eye and ear prosthetics.