MONTANA – This week I'll start a solo tour of Montana with two nights at Live from the Divide in Bozeman (SOLD OUT/wait-list), and two nights up at the truly magical Home Ranch Bottoms in Polebridge (6/11-12), then back down to the Covellite Theater in Butte (6/13), out to the One Legged Magpie in Red Lodge (6/14) and finishing up in Whiter Sulphur Springs with a very low-key show at the Ringling Social Club on Sunday (6/15). Christy Hays opens Butte, and Jackson Holte opens Bozeman. If you missed the boat in Bozo, maybe drive up to Butte, or down to Red Lodge, both of which are in Montana.

FLOODWATER – Some of my favorite shows the last couple years have been at the tiny Floodwater Brewing Company in Shelburne Falls, MA. It's a great little bar, weird, quiet, no TV. The kind of place that might be packed any night of the week if anything's going on, and frequently what's going on is music. I asked the owner, Zack, a few years ago if Billy and I could come down and just play unannounced on a night-off between shows. It turned out to be the last real show we ever got to play together, and it was magic. So the joint is haunted, and in the right way. Shows there more often than not reach the place that we're all trying to get to, where nothing else matters, and people might dance. I've got two shows at Floodwater this summer, one under my own name (6/21) and one as the Sunday Singdown (7/13), with Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass, Don McAulay on drums, Kris Delmhorst on guitar and fiddle, and a variety of special guests, all trading songs around a single microphone in the middle of the bar, Irish session style. No cover.

NORTH DAKOTA / IOWA – In the first week of July I'll play the Broadway Square Summer Music Series in downtown Fargo, ND (7/2) backed by Erik Koskinen on guitar. Later that week I'll share a split bill at Turkey River Cabin Concerts in Elkader, IA, (7/5) with my hero and old friend Dave Moore whose deep and vital albums on Red House Records – Jukejoints and Cantinas, Over My Shoulder, and Breaking Down to the Three – were, and are, so important to me, and whose songwriting and playing (guitar, blues harp, and button accordion) are a little known national treasure. I've had my eye on this gig for a while because it ticks all the boxes: small, rural, and has river right in the name. This is going to be a special show and if you live in the Driftless, I hope you'll try to get there.

RHODE ISLAND – July 18th I have a show at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, Rhode Island. We were trying for an All-Bird-Sanctuary Tour but this is as far as we got.

WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA / MICHIGAN – In August I'll play a few shows in the upper Midwest, starting at Milk and Honey Ciders in St. Joseph, MN (backed by and sharing the bill) with Erik Koskinen and his band, then solo at the Cafe Carpe, my old home bar, in Fort Atkinson, WI (8/20) and Gibson Music Hall in Appleton, WI, on my way north to perform at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival in Ontonogan, MI., again with Erik Koskinen and his band.

EUROPE – In late August we'll start a full-band European tour for The Universal Fire with a return appearance at the wonderful Tønder Festival in Denmark (8/27-30) alongside friends and correspondents met and unmet, like John Smith, Lyle Lovett, Joe Henry, Charles Wesley Godwin and a pile of others. From there we'll head down into Germany and points south with shows at The Music Bar in Norderstedt, DE (8/31), The Singers and Players Theater in Oldenburg, DE (9/1), De Amer in Amen, NL (9/2), Thiemeloods in Nijmegan, NL (9/3), and LantarenVenster in Rotterdam, NL (9/4), SPOT (at De Oosterport, the Binnenzaal) in Groningen (9/6), with further dates TBA. Erik Koskinen opens the tour and slings the hollow-body electric.

FALL – October I'll play around New England and then out in the Pacific Northwest, November I'll be in California, and December I'll be in the Midwest. Keep an eye on the TOUR page for details.

We'll see you out there this summer somewhere.

June 2025