Acony Records is excited to announce that Gillian Welch has confirmed the first leg of a North American tour. Welch and David Rawlings will play 31 cities in July and August, beginning July 6 in Santa Cruz, CA and ending August 28 in Charleston, SC. In addition, they will play the High Sierra Music Festival on June 30 as well as the Vancouver Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. More dates will be added in the fall, including the already announced Austin City Limits Festival in September.
The tour is in support of Welch’s new record, The Harrow & The Harvest, which is due to be released on June 28.
The complete list of dates is below:
Thu Jun-30 Quincy, CA High Sierra Music Festival
Wed Jul-06 Santa Cruz, CA Cocoanut Grove Ballroom
Thu Jul-07 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
Sat Jul-09 Grants Pass, OR Rogue Theatre
Sun Jul-10 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
Tue Jul-12 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Wed Jul-13 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Fri Jul-15 Vancouver, BC Vancouver Folk Festival
Sat Jul-16 Olympia, WA Capitol Theatre
Sun Jul-17 Missoula, MT Wilma Theater
Wed Jul-20 St. Paul, MN Fitzgerald Theater
Thu Jul-21 Madison, WI Capitol Theatre
Fri Jul-22 Chicago, IL VIC Theatre
Sat Jul-23 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
Mon Jul-25 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Hall
Sat Jul-30 Newport, RI Newport Folk Festival
Tue Aug-02 Bethesda, MD Music Center at Strathmore
Wed Aug-03 Raleigh, NC North Carolina Museum of Art
Thu Aug-04 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
Fri Aug-05 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
Sat Aug-06 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Thu Aug-11 New Orleans, LA Tipitinas Uptown
Fri Aug-12 Birmingham, AL Workplay Soundstage
Sat Aug-13 Huntsville,AL Von Braun Center Concert Hall
Sun Aug-14 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre
Wed Aug-17 Roanoke, VA Jefferson Cent/Shaftman Performance Hall
Thu Aug-18 Charlottesville, VA Paramount Theatre
Fri Aug-19 Richmond, VA Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Sat Aug-20 Charlotte, NC Knight Theater at Levine Cent. for the Arts
Sun Aug-21 Greenville, SC Peace Center Concert Hall
Tue Aug-23 Bristol, VA Paramount Center for the Arts
Wed Aug-24 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theater
Sat Aug-27 Wilmington, NC Winoca Festival – Battleship Park
Sun Aug-28 Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hall
Sat Sep-17 Austin, TX ACL Festival
