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 Harrow & The Harvest, “is a new Southern sound,” writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, “with the sort of songs you wouldn’t be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia; Songs you’d expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening. Songs with the wry humor of the back porch. Listen to this record with the lights low. Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.”
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 Theatr
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
In the week leading up to release, 46 independent record stores across the country will be hosting special preview listening parties for The Harrow & The Harvest. Here is the full list of stores:
Bull Moose Bangor Bangor, ME
Bull Moose Brunswick Brunswick, ME
Bull Moose Portland, ME
Bull Moose Portsmouth Portsmouth, NH
Bull Moose Scarborough Scarborough, ME
Cactus Music & Video Houston, TX
CD Central Lexington, KY
CD World Eugene, OR
Criminal Records Atlanta, GA
Dearborn Music Dearborn, MI
Decatur CD Decatur, GA
Disc Exchange Knoxville, TN
Down Home Records El Cerrito, CA
Ear X-tacy Louisville, KY
Earshot Greenville, SC
Elderly Instruments Lansing, MI
Euclid Records St. Louis, MO
Fingerprints Long Beach, CA
Good Records Dallas, TX
Grimey’s Nashville, TN
Harvest Records Asheville, NC
Homestead Pickin’ Parl Richfield, MN
Horizon Greenville, SC
Landlocked Music Bloomington, IN
Love Garden Sounds Lawrence, KS
Music Millenium Portland, OR
Park Avenue CD Orlando, FL
Plan 9 Richmond, VA
Pure Pop Reco Burlington, VT
Ramalama Rec Toledo, OH
Shake It Cincinnati, OH
Silver Platters Seattle, WA
Sonic Boom Records – Ballard Seattle, WA
Sound Garden Baltimore Baltimore, MD
Sound Garden Syracuse Syracuse, NY
Streetlight Records – San Jose San Jose, CA
Streetlight Records – Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA
Strictly Discs Madison, WI
Telegraph New London, CT
The Executive Co. #6 Milwaukee, WI
Twist & Shout Denver, CO
Vintage Vinyl Fords Fords, NJ
Waterloo Austin, TX
Zia Enterprises, Inc. #70 Tucson, AZ
Zia Records #45 Las Vegas, NV
Zia Records Tempe #20 Tempe, AZ
Visit gillianwelch.com for up to the minute tour dates and album news.
