Sam Amidon Announces UK Autumn Tour, Begins North American Tour

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Sam Amidon has announced a UK tour for October, with shows in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Newcastle, in addition to previously announced summer festival sets. He begins a North American spring tour at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville this Friday, with shows in Lexington, Philadelphia, NYC, Brattleboro, Cambridge, Montreal, Toronto, Ann Arbor, and Chicago, plus sets at the MusicNow festival in Cincinnati.

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Sam Amidon has announced a tour of the UK for this October, featuring music from his new album, The Following Mountain. The tour includes performances in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Newcastle, in addition to previously announced festival appearances this summer. Tickets for the October dates go on sale this Friday, March 23, at 10am local time.

Amidon begins a North American spring tour at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee, this Friday as part of the Big Ears Festival. The tour includes headline shows in Lexington, Philadelphia, New York, Brattleboro, Cambridge, Montreal, Toronto, Ann Arbor, and Chicago, plus sets as part of the MusicNow festival in Cincinnati.

See below for all of the currently announced tour dates. For all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

To pick up a copy of The Following Mountain, head to iTunes, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout, and listen to the album on Apple Music and Spotify.

SAM AMIDON ON TOUR

Mar 23 Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN
Mar 25 The Burl Lexington, KY
Mar 27 Bourbon & Branch Philadelphia, PA
Mar 28 (le) poisson rouge New York, NY
Mar 29 The Stone Church Brattleboro, VT
Mar 30 Club Passim Cambridge, MA
Mar 31 O Patro Vys Montreal, QC
Apr 1 Rivoli Toronto, ON
Apr 26 The Ark Ann Arbor, MI
Apr 27 MusicNOW Cincinnati, OH
Apr 28 MusicNOW Homecoming Cincinnati, OH
Apr 29 Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago, IL
     
May 1 Green Note w/Olivia Chaney - Sold Out London, UK
May 5 More Music Morecambe, UK
May 11 Musikhalle Ludwigsburg w/Pekka Kuusisto Ludwigsburg, GERMANY
May 13 Baltimore Fiddle Fair Baltimore, UK
May 31 Nattjazz Bergen, NORWAY
Jun 2 Fire in the Mountain Aberystwyth, UK
Jun 6 De Barra Clonakilty, IRELAND
Jul 22 Folk Forest Festival Sheffield, UK
     
Aug 5 Pickathon Happy Valley, OR
     
Oct 20 The Cuban Embassy Birmingham, UK
Oct 22 The Hope and Ruin Brighton, UK
Oct 23 The Louisiana Bristol, UK
Oct 24 Night and Day Manchester, UK
Oct 26 Brudenell Social Club Leeds, UK
Oct 27 Pleasance Cabaret Bar Edinburgh, UK
Oct 29 The Greystones Sheffield, UK
Oct 30 The Cluny 2 Newcastle, UK
     


 

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Sam Amidon: sword, shield and banjo

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