Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Announce 2025 25-Date Tour In Cities Including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, And Nashville

Today, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” announce their 25-date 2025 tour in cities including Los Angeles, Chattanooga, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Nashville and more (full dates below). Tickets for this tour will go on sale to the general public here on Friday, November 15 at 10am local time, aside from New York’s Carnegie Hall, which will go on sale at 11am local, with several pre-sales beginning on Tuesday, November 12th at 11am local time. Welch and Rawlings will kick off the third leg of their 35-date 2024 tour on Nov 20 in Louisville, KY with additional tour dates in Port Chester, Detroit, and Philadelphia (full dates below). These dates are on sale now here.

Last week, Welch and Rawlings were nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY for their 10th studio album, Woodland, as well as the Best Americana Performance GRAMMY for “Empty Trainload of Sky” off the album. The duo has previously won two Grammys, 2021’s Best Folk Album for All The Good Times (2020) and the 2002 Album Of The Year Grammy for O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Soundtrack. This is their 9th Grammy nomination in total. Woodland is out now digitally here and vinyl and CD versions will be available here this Friday, November 15th.

Woodland was named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio, they said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do and has been for the last twenty some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.” The new 10-song collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism and cements the pair’s iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music. Woodland is the duo’s first album since 2020’s All the Good Times, a collection of covers and classic folk songs which earned the duo the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album, and their first album of new original music since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack.

The vinyl edition of Woodland is mastered by David Rawlings directly from the original analog master tapes to his custom Neumann VMS-80 lathe. Acony Records is proud to be partnering with the all-new Paramount Pressing & Plating, a joint venture between Rawlings and esteemed plating craftsman Gary Salstrom, to produce superior vinyl records. Paramount Pressing, located in Denver, CO and built from the ground up from Salstrom's specifications, is dedicated to producing the highest quality vinyl records available, using state of the art Pheenix Alpha and Viryl presses and the experience of some of the greatest record pressing engineers and record producers in the business.

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS- WOODLAND TRACK LISTING

Empty Trainload Of Sky

What We Had

Lawman

The Bells And The Birds

North Country

Hashtag

The Day The Mississippi Died

Turf The Gambler

Here Stands A Woman

Howdy Howdy

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GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS TOUR DATES (NEW DATES IN BOLD)

Nov 20 – Louisville, KY at The Brown Theatre SOLD OUT

Nov 21 – Cincinnati, OH at Taft Theatre

Nov 22 – Detroit, MI at The Masonic Temple SOLD OUT

Nov 23 – Akron, OH at Goodyear Theater SOLD OUT

Nov 25 – Pittsburgh, PA at Byham Theater SOLD OUT

Nov 26 – Ithaca, NY at State Theatre of Ithaca SOLD OUT

Nov 27 – Troy, NY at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall SOLD OUT

Nov 30 – Kingston, NY at Ulster Performing Arts Center SOLD OUT

Dec 1 – Boston, MA at The Wilbur SOLD OUT

Dec 2 – Concord, NH at Chubb Theatre SOLD OUT

Dec 3 – Portland, ME at State Theatre SOLD OUT

Dec 5 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre SOLD OUT

Dec 6 – Philadelphia, PA at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts –

Zellerbach Auditorium SOLD OUT

Dec 7 – Baltimore, MD at The Lyric Baltimore

Dec 8 – Tysons, VA at Capital One Hall SOLD OUT

Feb 28 – Santa Fe, NM – Lensic Performing Arts Center

Mar 1 – Santa Fe, NM - Lensic Performing Arts Center

Mar 3 – Tucson, AZ – Fox Tucson Theatre

Mar 4 – Phoenix, AZ – Orpheum Theatre

Mar 6 – El Cajon, CA – The Magnolia

Mar 7 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern

Mar 9 – Santa Barbara, CA – The Granada Theatre

Mar 10 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre

Mar 12 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic

Mar 13 – Sacramento, CA – Crest Theatre

Mar 14 – Santa Rosa, CA – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts – Ruth Finley Person Theater

Apr 2 – Chattanooga, TN – The Walker Theatre

Apr 3 – Athens, GA – The Classic Center

Apr 4 – Boone, NC – Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts [RESCHEDULED DATE]

Apr 5 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium [RESCHEDULED DATE]

Apr 30 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre

May 1 – Winston-Salem, NC – The Ramkat

May 3 – Raleigh, NC – Memorial Auditorium at Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

May 4 – Richmond, VA – The National

May 5 – Wilmington, DE – The Grand Opera House – Copeland Hall

May 7 – New York, NY – Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

May 10 – Boston, MA – Wang Theatre – Boch Center

May 11 – New London, CT – Garde Theater

May 13 – Charlottesville, VA – The Paramount Theater

May 22 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium