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Punch Brothers Add 31 Dates To North American Tour 

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Punch Brothers – mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Brittany Haas – begins a 64-city North American tour on May 14 performing throughout the spring, summer and fall. The tour celebrates the band’s new album The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, which is due on July 24 from Nonesuch Records.

This marks the band’s most extensive tour since 2019 and includes stops across the East Coast, South, Midwest, Rockies, Southwest, West Coast and Canada, with headlining shows at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Festival stops include Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Spoleto Festival, among others.

Punch Brothers partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting organizations working for equity, access and dignity for all. VIP packages are available throughout the tour. Presales are available now with the general on sale begins May 8 at 10:00 AM local time.

The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is the seventh album from the Grammy-winning band and the first with fiddle player Brittany Haas, who joined the quintet in 2023. The record features eight new original compositions by Punch Brothers as well as three traditional songs they arranged.

The fully instrumental album’s title is more than a play on words: without lyrics to guide the listener, these are stories, impressions and emotions communicated entirely with strings through melody and rhythm. The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is produced by the band and engineered by Joseph Lorge, who most recently received a Grammy award for Best Engineered Album/Non-Classical for his work on Pino Palladino and Blake Mills’ That Wasn’t a Dream.  

Thile, who founded the band in 2006, said of the record, “This music is the result of what feels to me like our deepest but also most joyful exploration of the American string band in the twenty years we’ve been making music together. Something about the dichotomy of all the water under the bridge plus a new, brilliant teammate in Brittany. We all felt like kids in a candy store. …so many possibilities and so much energy with which to pursue them, except with the kind of collective discipline and clarity of intent that only decades of collaboration affords.” 

The band has garnered critical acclaim, including a Grammy for Best Folk Album for All Ashore (2018). The Washington Post applauded them for taking “bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage, drawing equal inspiration from the brain and the heart.” 

Most recently, Punch Brothers have been focused on the band’s musical variety show, “The Energy Curfew Music Hour.” Season One is available on all podcast platforms, with season two exclusively out on Audible. Season 1 was nominated for a Webby Award in the Podcast: Features, Experimental & Innovation category; it also won Most Innovative Audio Experience, Best Live Podcast Recording, and Best Sound Design in the Listener’s Choice category of the 2025 Signal Awards. 

Punch Brother Dates:

May 14 – Morristown, NJ, Mayo Performing Arts Center  

May 15 – Allentown, PA, Archer Music Hall  

May 16 – Rocky Mount, VA, The Harvester Performance Center  

May 17 – Durham, NC, The Carolina Theatre  

May 19 – Charlotte, NC, Knight Theater  

May 21 – Richmond, VA, Maymont  

May 22 – Cumberland, MD, DelFest  

May 23 – Wilmington, NC, Greenfield Lake Amphitheater  

May 24 – Charleston, SC, Spoleto Festival  

May 26 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall  

May 27 – Birmingham, AL, Avondale Brewing Company  

May 28 – Knoxville, TN, Tennessee Theatre  

May 29 – Pelham, TN, The Caverns  

May 30 – Atlanta, GA, The Eastern  

June 20-21 – Telluride, CO, Telluride Bluegrass Festival  

June 23 – Kansas City, MO, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts  

June 24 – St. Louis, MO, Powell Hall  

June 25 – Owensboro, KY, ROMP Fest 

June 26 – Cincinnati, OH, Taft Theatre  

June 27 – Boone, NC, Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts  

July 18 – Katonah, NY, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts/Venetian Theater  

July 19 – Hammondsport, NY, Concerts at Point of the Bluff  

July 21 – South Deerfield, MA, Tree House Brewing Company/Deerfield  

July 22 – Bar Harbor, ME, Criterion Theatre  

July 24 – Hiram, ME, Ossipee Valley Music Festival  

July 25 – Newport, RI, Newport Folk Festival 

July 26 – Lyons, CO, RockyGrass Festival 

July 27 – Teton Village, WY, Grand Teton Music Festival 

Sept. 9 – Grand Rapids, MI, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park 

Sept. 10 – Royal Oak, MI, Royal Oak Music Theatre 

Sept. 11 – Evanston, IL, Cahn Auditorium 

Sept. 13 – Milwaukee, WI, The Pabst Theater 

Sept. 15 – Rochester, MN, Mayo Civic Center/Presentation Hall 

Sept. 16 – Iowa City, IA, Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa 

Sept. 17 – Goshen, IN, Sauder Concert Hall 

Sept. 18 – Columbus, OH, Southern Theatre 

Sept. 19 – Cleveland Heights, OH, Cain Park Evans Amphitheater 

Oct. 1 – Seattle, WA, The Moore Theatre 

Oct. 2 – Portland, OR, Revolution Hall 

Oct. 3 – Bend, OR, Tower Theatre 

Oct. 7 – Santa Barbara, CA, TBA 

Oct. 8 – Los Angeles, CA, TBA 

Oct. 9 – San Diego, CA, Epstein Family Amphitheater 

Oct. 10 – Scottsdale, AZ, Virginia G. Piper Theater/Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts 

Oct. 11 – Albuquerque, NM, KiMo Theatre 

Oct. 13 – Beaver Creek, CO, Vilar Performing Arts Center 

Oct. 14 – Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre 

Oct. 15 – Boulder, CO, Boulder Theater 

Oct. 17 – Manteo, NC, Outer Banks Bluegrass Island Festival  

Nov. 4 – New York, NY, Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall 

Nov. 5 – Glenside, PA, Keswick Theatre 

Nov. 6 – Washington, DC, Warner Theatre 

Nov. 7 – Storrs, CT, Jorgensen Center For The Performing Arts 

Nov. 8 – Rutland, VT, The Paramount Theatre 

Nov. 11 – Portland, ME, State Theatre 

Nov. 12 – Concord, NH, Capitol Center for the Arts, Chubb Theatre 

Nov. 13 – Boston, MA, Boch Center, Shubert Theatre 

Nov. 14 – Ithaca, NY, State Theatre 

Nov. 15 – Buffalo, NY, Center for the Arts 

Nov. 17 – Toronto, ON, Koerner Hall 

Nov. 19 – Louisville, KY, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts/Brown Theatre 

Nov. 21 – Nashville, TN, Ryman Auditorium 

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