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Carlos Santana with Santana performs in concert at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida on August 1, 2010. UPI/Michael Bush
Carlos Santana with Santana performs in concert at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida on August 1, 2010. UPI/Michael Bush 
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Published: April 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM

LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- The rock band Santana announced Monday a string of North American concert dates to support its forthcoming album.

The Shape Shifter Tour 2012 is to kick off July 7 at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Hinckley, Minn.

Other highlights include concerts at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in West Toronto; the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston; and two dates at the Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

The tour follows the May 15 release of the band's 13-song instrumental set "Shape Shifter." One song also features singing by Santana's lead vocalists Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay.

The album features "mostly original compositions that [front man] Carlos [Santana] has been setting aside for such an instrumental project," the band's label Starfaith Records said in a news release Monday.

On the Shape Shifter Tour 2012, Santana will perform selections from its new album, as well as classics from the group's more than four-decades-long career.

Santana is to begin a 2-year residency next month at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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