GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS
ANNOUNCE OCTOBER 2025 UK & IRELAND LIVE
DATES
THEIR FIRST HEADLINE TOUR ON THESE SHORES
SINCE 2011
ONLY EUROPEAN SHOWS FOR 2025
GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ALBUM WOODLAND OUT
NOW
“When Gillian Welch and David Rawlings sing
together, it feels as if our hectic world stops turning” - The Sun
“Never is it more moving than when they are
simply playing together” – Uncut
“How Welch and Rawlings can sound so steeped
in timeless tradition and yet so in the moment here and now is one of the
musical miracles of our times.” -
Hi-Fi News
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings have
announced long awaited live dates for the UK and Ireland in October 2025. This
marks their first headline tour this side of the pond since 2011’s run in
support of that year’s The Harrow & The Harvest album.
Following the release of their lauded new
record Woodland (Acony), which scooped the 2025 Grammy Award for Best
Folk album and graced many Best of the Year lists, the duo will play Dublin,
Manchester, London and Glasgow in what is sure to be one
of the most highly anticipated tours this year. Dates, which will be the only
European shows in 2025, are as follows:
Tickets on-sale Friday, March 14 at 10 am
local: https://www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com/
Welch & Rawlings, whom the New York Times
has hailed as “American folk masters,” are widely recognised as leading
exponents of their genre, with every new release a notable event. Their 10th
studio album Woodland (2024), now available on all formats, was named
for and recorded at their own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, which they
rebuilt following the devastation of the 2020 tornado. The new 10-song
collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied
together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism.
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 Viryl presses and
the experience of some of the greatest record pressing engineers and record
producers in the business.
Alongside the Best Folk Album Grammy in 2025
(their third Grammy), the duo won International Album of the Year and
International Single of the Year for Woodland and its lead single “Empty
Trainload Of Sky” at the 2025 UK Americana Awards. On its release, Woodland was
greeted with widespread praise, from The Observer to The Sun, The Times to The
Mirror, and triumphed in the UK music press, including Albums of the Year in
Uncut (#2), Mojo (#4, #1 in Americana), Songlines (#1, Americas) and Classic
Rock.
About Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are
pillars of the modern acoustic music world, and their rich and remarkable
careers span over twenty-five years.
After moving to Nashville in the
1990s, Welch was launched into the public consciousness when Emmylou
Harris recorded a cover of Welch’s “Orphan Girl.” Her career continued to
flourish as her 1996 debut Revival, produced by T Bone Burnett, was
released to critical acclaim. Welch and Rawlings followed up that
GRAMMY nominated album release with 1998’s Hell Among The Yearlings,
a stark duet record that further solidified the duo as a force in the folk
music scene.
In 2000, Welch was awarded the Album of the
Year GRAMMY for her work as Associate Producer as well as a performer and
songwriter on the eight times platinum O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack.
Welch and Rawlings were simultaneously nominated for Time (The
Revelator) which Rolling Stone called one of the best albums of the
2000s and is widely considered by critics and fans to be one of the best albums
of all time.
Beginning with Time (The Revelator), all
of Welch and Rawlings albums have been self-produced and self-released on their
own record label, Acony Records, helping to establish the duo’s fierce
commitment to independent music.
2003’s Soul Journey was the
pair’s first experimentation with a fuller, electric sound, which paved the way
for the Dave Rawlings Machine project, and their first release under Rawlings’
name (A Friend of A Friend, 2009), which was accompanied by a time
period of heavy touring and headlining major festivals.
The Harrow and The Harvest returned to the duet sound and was nominated for Best Contemporary
Folk Album and Best Engineered Album at the 2012 GRAMMYs and won Artist of the
Year (Welch) and Instrumentalist of the Year (Rawlings) at the Americana Honors
& Awards. The album garnered glowing reviews and topped multiple year end
“Best Of” lists.
Nashville Obsolete, the last project to be released as Dave Rawlings Machine in 2015,
showcased Rawlings’ expanding pallet as a producer with more lavish
arrangements, strings, and guest musicians. He also produced albums by Willie
Watson, Dawes, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Robyn Hitchcock. “Cumberland Gap”
from Poor David’s Almanack in 2017 was nominated for Best
American Roots Song and was featured in Guy Ritchie’s film The
Gentlemen and has since become one of the duo’s highest streaming
songs.
In celebration of the twenty-year anniversary
of the Welch-Rawlings partnership, the two launched an archival branch of
Acony Records, entitled Boots, dedicated to releasing outtakes,
demos, bootlegs, and live recordings from their copious vault. Thus far they
have released five album’s worth of music with more on the way.
In 2018, Welch was the first
musician to receive the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Literature. The award is
bestowed by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Department of English
& Comparative Literature and recognizes contemporary writers with a
distinguished body of work. 2019 saw Welch and Rawlings
nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” where they
performed their singing cowboy duet live on the Oscars. “When A Cowboy Trades
His Spurs For Wings” was written for the Coen brothers’ film The Ballad
Of Buster Scruggs. In 2020, the duo released All the Good
Times, the first album under both their names, and won the GRAMMY
for the Best Folk Album.
Recently, they were crowned with the Berklee American Masters Award and honored
by Americana Music Association with a Lifetime Achievement for Songwriting.
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