The Carolina Chocolate Drops brought the latest leg of their US summer tour to a close with a free concert at the Radio Summer Camp Backyard BBQ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. Up next, the Drops bring the music of their Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig, to Europe for a brief tour through the summer festival circuit there, with stops at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Scotland's Southern Fried Festival, Norway's Notodden Blues Festival (the band's Norwegian debut), and Belgium's Dranouter Folk Festival.

The US tour resumes at the end of August. Before then, and before the band heads off to Europe, fans in New York City can catch Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens when she joins Sxip Shirey for a performance at City Winery on July 24.

Prior to yesterday's show in Milwaukee, the band made a quick return home to North Carolina to perform at the 13th Annual MusicFest 'n Sugar Grove earlier this month. While there, the trio sat down for a quick video chat about that festival and the upcoming European tour. You can watch it here:

For more on the upcoming European tour and the band's return to the States, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. To pick up a copy of Genuine Negro Jig, now out on vinyl, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders include instant downloads of all the album tracks as MP3s, plus seven exclusive bonus MP3s recorded live.