April 2025

NORTHEAST – In April we have a run of full-band shows in New England, starting at one of our favorite rooms, the Cock'n'Bull in Galway, NY (4/23), a massive old barn converted into a lovely restaurant; a room that always sounds great and where they treat everyone like family. From there, we'll head back east to play the House Theater at Treehouse Brewing Company in South Deerfield, MA. (4/24 twenty seats left at last count), return to The Town and The City Festival in Lowell, MA. (4/25), and finish up at ArtsRiot in Burlington, VT. (4/26). Our friends in the Minnesota band Wild Horses join us to open the shows in Galway and Deerfield, and Lucy Chapin opens Burlington. 

TEXAS – In May I'll return to the Kerrville Folk Festival (5/22) in the Texas hill country, twenty-five years after driving down there from Wisconsin for the first time as a youngster who'd written about twenty songs, and discovering that it was the hottest fucking place I'd ever been in my life until that point. Plenty of old friends on the bill. Look for me at the beer tent, or neck deep in the Medina river.

MONTANA – In June I'll be running around Montana solo, playing shows and fishing. Some of those shows are announced and some are not yet, but I know I'll play two nights at Live from the Divide in Bozeman (6/6-7), and two up at Home Ranch Bottoms in Polebridge (6/11-12). Keep an eye on the TOUR page as more dates fill in.

SUMMER – In August I'll play a few shows in Wisconsin and Michigan, starting at the Cafe Carpe, my old home bar, in Fort Atkinson, WI (8/20 - Note: This will sell out quickly), and then Gibson Music Hall in Appleton, WI, on my way north to perform at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival in Ontonogan, MI. where Erik Koskinen will join me on the electric guitar.

EUROPE – In late August we'll start our full-band European tour for The Universal Fire, with a return appearance at the wonderful Tønder Festival in Denmark. We'll announce dates when the tour is finalized. Meanwhile, please write directly to our European agent if you have a bright idea for us to come your home country. Don't tell me. Telling me is useless. I know nothing. Erik Koskinen opens the tour.

THE CURRENT – Back in December the band returned to the jungles of central Saint Paul to play The Current on Minnesota Public Radio, a Midwestern institution, and a reminder what a great publicly-funded cultural facility can be. We played a few songs from the new record in their beautiful studio, including a full-band version of East of the Sunrise, and I sat down for an interview with our old friend Mike Pengra.

KRIS DELMHORST – This month Kris Delmhorst, to whom I have acted as Trophy Husband these last twenty years, released a new album called Ghosts in the Garden, a gorgeous record of haunting and complex songs by a writer and human who continues to freedive into soul territory most people never wade into. You can order the album on vinyl or CD, and find Kris and the band on the road this spring, with upcoming tours of the west coast and northeast. 

Other things may happen, and some of them will happen, but these are things I know about right now. I'll see you out there.