Punch Brothers are hitting the road harder than they have in years, and they’ve got a new album to back it up.
The Grammy-winning quintet, mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Brittany Haas, launches a 64-city North American tour on May 14, their most extensive run since 2019. The tour celebrates the upcoming seventh album ‘The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers,’ due July 24 from Nonesuch Records, and it’s a genuine cross-continental undertaking, covering the East Coast, South, Midwest, Rockies, Southwest, West Coast and Canada with headline stops at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, plus festival appearances at Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Spoleto Festival.
‘The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers’ is fully instrumental, eight original compositions and three arranged traditional songs, and the title carries real meaning. Without lyrics, these are stories told entirely through melody and rhythm across five strings. It’s also the first album to feature Haas, who joined the band in 2023. “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,” says Thile. “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.” The record was produced by the band and engineered by Joseph Lorge, whose work on Pino Palladino and Blake Mills’ ‘That Wasn’t a Dream’ earned him a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
The band won their Grammy for Best Folk Album for ‘All Ashore’ in 2018 and have spent the years since expanding their reach through “The Energy Curfew Music Hour,” their musical variety podcast, which won Most Innovative Audio Experience, Best Live Podcast Recording and Best Sound Design at the 2025 Signal Awards. Punch Brothers have partnered with PLUS1 for the tour, with $1 from every ticket supporting organizations working for equity, access and dignity. General on-sale begins May 8 at 10:00 AM local time, with VIP packages available throughout.
Punch Brothers Tour 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
September 9 — Grand Rapids, MI — Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
September 10 — Royal Oak, MI — Royal Oak Music Theatre
September 11 — Evanston, IL — Cahn Auditorium
September 13 — Milwaukee, WI — The Pabst Theater
September 15 — Rochester, MN — Mayo Civic Center, Presentation Hall
September 16 — Iowa City, IA — Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa
September 17 — Goshen, IN — Sauder Concert Hall
September 18 — Columbus, OH — Southern Theatre
September 19 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Cain Park Evans Amphitheater
October 1 — Seattle, WA — The Moore Theatre
October 2 — Portland, OR — Revolution Hall
October 3 — Bend, OR — Tower Theatre
October 7 — Santa Barbara, CA — TBA
October 8 — Los Angeles, CA — TBA
October 9 — San Diego, CA — Epstein Family Amphitheater
October 10 — Scottsdale, AZ — Virginia G. Piper Theater, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
October 11 — Albuquerque, NM — KiMo Theatre
October 13 — Beaver Creek, CO — Vilar Performing Arts Center
October 14 — Denver, CO — Paramount Theatre
October 15 — Boulder, CO — Boulder Theater
October 17 — Manteo, NC — Outer Banks Bluegrass Island Festival
November 4 — New York, NY — Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall
November 5 — Glenside, PA — Keswick Theatre
November 6 — Washington, DC — Warner Theatre
November 7 — Storrs, CT — Jorgensen Center For The Performing Arts
November 8 — Rutland, VT — The Paramount Theatre
November 11 — Portland, ME — State Theatre
November 12 — Concord, NH — Capitol Center for the Arts, Chubb Theatre
November 13 — Boston, MA — Boch Center, Shubert Theatre
November 14 — Ithaca, NY — State Theatre
November 15 — Buffalo, NY — Center for the Arts
November 17 — Toronto, ON — Koerner Hall
November 19 — Louisville, KY — The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Brown Theatre
November 21 — Nashville, TN — Ryman Auditorium