Gillian Welch to Play Royal Oak, MI...

Gillian Welch has confirmed a headlining North American tour. This initial leg of touring has Welch and David Rawlings playing in 35 cities, beginning June 30 in Quincy, CA, for the High Sierra Festival, and ending September 17 at the Austin City Limits Festival. They will also be performing at the Newport Folk Festival.

Welch will play the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan on July 23rd.

The tour is in support of Welch’s new record, The Harrow & The Harvest, which is due to be released on June 28. The Harrow & The Harvest, “is a new Southern sound,” writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, “with the sort of songs you wouldn’t be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia; Songs you’d expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening. Songs with the wry humor of the back porch. Listen to this record with the lights low. Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.”

June
30 – Quincy, Calif. @ High Sierra Music Festival

July
6 – Santa Cruz, Calif. @ Cocoanut Grove Ballroom
7 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
9 – Grants Pass, Ore. @ Rogue Theatre
10 – Eugene, Ore. @ McDonald Theatre
12 – Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Theater
13 – Seattle, Wash. @ Moore Theatre
15 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Vancouver Folk Festival
16 – Olympia, Wash. @ Capitol Theatre
17 – Missoula, Mont. @ Wilma Theater
20 – St. Paul, Minn. @ Fitzgerald Theater
21 – Madison, Wis. @ Capitol Theatre
22 – Chicago, Ill. @ VIC Theatre
23 – Royal Oak, Mich. @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
25 – Toronto, Ontario @ Phoenix Concert Hall
30 – Newport, R.I. @ Newport Folk Festival

August
2 – Bethesda, Md. @ Music Center at Strathmore
3 – Raleigh, N.C. @ North Carolina Museum of Art
4 – Winston-Salem, N.C. @ Ziggy’s
5 – Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
6 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
11 – New Orleans, La. @ Tipitinas Uptown
12 – Birmingham, Ala. @ Workplay Soundstage
13 – Huntsville,Ala. @ Von Braun Center Concert Hall
14 – Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre
17 – Roanoke, Va. @ Jefferson Cent/Shaftman Performance Hall
18 – Charlottesville, Va. @ Paramount Theatre
19 – Richmond, Va. @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
20 – Charlotte, N.C @ Knight Theater at Levine Cent. for the Arts
21 – Greenville, S.C. @ Peace Center Concert Hall
23 – Bristol, Va. @ Paramount Center for the Arts
24 – Knoxville, Tenn. @ Tennessee Theater
27 – Wilmington, N.C. @ Winoca Festival – Battleship Park
28 – Charleston, S.C. @ Charleston Music Hall

September
17 – Austin, TX @ ACL Festival