Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Announce “Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Play Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning” April Tour Dates

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS ANNOUNCE “GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS PLAY GRATEFUL DEAD ACOUSTIC RECKONING” APRIL TOUR DATES CONFIRM “GRATEFUL DEAD ACOUSTIC RECKONING” PERFORMANCE AT NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 2026 6-DATE TOUR INCLUDES SHOWS IN PORT CHESTER, NY, OAKLAND, CA, NEW ORLEANS, LA HEADLINE SHOWS ON SALE HERE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 AT 10AM LOCAL TIME   GRAMMY-WINNING 10TH STUDIO ALBUM WOODLAND OUT NOW

Today, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” announce their “Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Play Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning” tour. Welch shares about the new tour dates, “The Grateful Dead flirted with acoustic music throughout their career, until they released the Reckoning album, 45 years ago.  We have flirted with Grateful Dead music throughout our career, until this anniversary was suggested as a good reason to book these shows. We know the Dead’s music is a mountain, and we’re hoping to start up from base camp this Spring in celebration of their legacy.” The 6-date April tour will include three shows at Port Chester, NY’s The Capitol Theatre, two dates at Oakland, CA’s Fox Theater and one show at New Orleans, LA’s Saenger Theatre. Additionally, the duo will return to Newport Folk Festival, where they closed the festival in 2024, to perform their “Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning” show on July 25th. Tickets for these new headlining dates will go on sale here on Friday, February 13 at 10am local. Recently Welch and Rawlings returned to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert to perform the songs “Empty Trainload Of Sky,” “Lawman,” and “Hashtag” off their 10th studio album Woodland, as well as their celebrated song “Revelator” off their 2001 album, Time (The Revelator). The performance served as victory lap for the duo who recently won the 2025 Best Folk Album GRAMMY for Woodland, performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and recently wrapped a 34-date headlining tour. Watch Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert here. Welch and Rawlings’ 10th studio album, Woodland, is out now on all formats. 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 Vinyl 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   GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS PLAY GRATEFUL DEAD ACOUSTIC RECKONING TOUR DATES April 9 - Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre April 10 - Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre April 11 - Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre April 17 - Oakland, CA at Fox Theater April 18 - Oakland, CA at Fox Theater April 23 - New Orleans, LA at Saenger Theatre July 25 – Newport, RI at Newport Folk Festival