Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, who celebrates Friday's release of their new album, The Past Is Still Alive, with the launch of a months-long headline tour in New Orleans on Sunday, will join Norah Jones on her North American tour this summer. The nine-city run starts in Colorado with shows at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail and Red Rocks in Morrison on July 22 and 23, respectively, followed by stops in Utah, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, and Oregon, culminating in San Francisco August 3.
Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra—who won the International Folk Music Awards 2024 People’s Voice Award last night; releases their new album, The Past Is Still Alive, tomorrow; and launches a months-long headline tour in their hometown of New Orleans on Sunday—will join Norah Jones on her North American tour this summer. The nine-city run starts in Colorado with shows at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail and Red Rocks in Morrison on July 22 and 23, respectively, followed by stops in Utah, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, and Oregon, culminating at the Masonic in San Francisco on August 3. General on-sale begins next Friday, March 1. See below for details and tickets, and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
“I’m so in love with the music,” Norah Jones said of Hurray for the Riff Raff, on her podcast Norah Jones Is Playing Along, last August, when Segarra was a guest. “I’ve been listening to Hurray for the Riff Raff for a long time. And their voice is just breathtaking to me.” You can hear the episode, in which Jones and Segarra talk about Segarra’s life and music and duet on several songs together, including Lucinda Williams’ song “Drunken Angel,” from Williams' 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, and three from Hurray for the Riff Raff’s 2022 album, LIFE ON EARTH, and more, here. You can watch them perform "Drunken Angel" here:
Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) created The Past Is Still Alive during a period of personal grief, when they found inspiration in radical poetry, railroad culture, outsider art, the work of writer Eileen Myles, and activist groups like ACT UP and Gran Fury. Segarra uses their lyrics as a way to immortalize and say goodbye to those they have loved and lost, and to honor both the heartbroken and the hopeful parts of themselves. Though made in North Carolina by the Bronx-born, New Orleans-based Segarra and produced by Brad Cook, the record brings listeners to places far beyond, evoking vivid experiences of small shops and buffalo stampedes in Santa Fe, childhood road trips and Florida storms, struggles of addiction in the Lower East Side, and days-long journeys to outrun the cops in Nebraska.
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF ON TOUR
| Feb 25 | Tipitina's | New Orleans, LA |
| Feb 27 | Masquerade | Atlanta, GA |
| Feb 28 | Motorco | Durham, NC |
| Feb 29 | Atlantis | Washington, DC |
| Mar 1 | Foundry | Philadelphia, PA |
| Mar 3 | Levon Helm Studios | Woodstock, NY |
| Mar 5 | Music Hall of Williamsburg | Brooklyn, NY |
| Mar 6 | The Sinclair | Cambridge, MA |
| Mar 7 | Brewbakers | Keene, NH |
| Mar 9 | Higher Ground | Burlington, VT |
| Mar 10 | Great Hall | Toronto, ON |
| Mar 12 | Skully's | Columbus, OH |
| Mar 14 | Lincoln Hall | Chicago, IL |
| Mar 15 | Amsterdam Bar & Hall | St. Paul, MN |
| Mar 22 | Big Ears Festival | Knoxville, TN |
| Mar 28 | Aladdin Theater | Portland, OR |
| Mar 29 | Neumo's | Seattle, WA |
| Apr 1 | August Hall | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 2 | Harlow's | Sacramento, CA |
| Apr 4 | Voodoo Room | San Diego, CA |
| Apr 5 | Belasco | Los Angeles, CA |
| Apr 6 | Pappy & Harriet's | Pioneertown, CA |
| Apr 7 | Valley Bar | Phoenix, AZ |
| Apr 9 | Urban Lounge | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Apr 10 | Larimer Lounge | Denver, CO |
| Apr 12 | Tulips | Fort Worth, TX |
| Apr 13 | 3TEN | Austin, TX |
| Apr 14 | White Oak Music Hall | Houston, TX |
| Apr 27 | New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | New Orleans, LA |
| May 10 | Button Factory | Dublin, IRELAND |
| May 11 | Deaf Institute | Manchester, UK |
| May 12 | Mono | Glasgow, UK |
| May 14 | Brudenell Social Club | Leeds, UK |
| May 15 | Castle & Falcon | Birmingham, UK |
| May 16 | Strange Brew | Bristol, UK |
| May 17 | Electric Brixton | London, UK |
| May 19 | La Maroquinerie | Paris, FRANCE |
| May 20 | Botanique | Brussels, BELGIUM |
| May 21 | Tolhuistuin | Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS |
| May 23 | Privatclub | Berlin, GERMANY |
| May 24 | Tomavistas | Madrid, SPAIN |
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF ON TOUR WITH NORAH JONES
| Jul 22 | Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater | Vail, CO |
| Jul 23 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | Morrison, CO |
| Jul 25 | Sandy Amphitheater | Sandy, UT |
| Jul 26 | Outlaw Field at Idaho Botanical Garden | Boise, ID |
| Jul 27 | Wine Country Amphitheater | Walla Walla, WA |
| Jul 29 | Woodland Park Zoo | Seattle, WA |
| Jul 30 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | Vancouver, BC |
| Aug 1 | The Cuthbert Ampitheater | Eugene, OR |
| Aug 3 | The Masonic | San Francisco, CA |
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