Gillian Welch back on tour

Good news! Gillian Welch is on the road again. She is heading out with David Rawlings, and play 31 cities in July and August, beginning July 6 in Santa Cruz, CA and ending August 28 in Charleston, SC.  They are also playing 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  Austin City Limits Festival in September. All of this 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 Theater

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

Also, the week before The Harrow & The Harvest comes out, a whole bunch of record stores around the country will be hosting listening parties.  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