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2x GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Patty Griffin has announced an eagerly awaited series of 2026 live shows, including headline performances and very special double bills with 5x GRAMMY® Award-winning blues icon Taj Mahal and legendary 2x GRAMMY® Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones. Dates get underway February 11 at Albuquerque, NM’s KiMo Theatre and then travel through the month. All tickets are on sale this Friday. For complete details and ticket information, please visit pattygriffin.com/tour.
The new dates join a series of previously announced live performances for Griffin, including a hometown holiday headline show at Austin, TX’s Paramount Theatre (December 19), a top-billed appearance on Sixthman’s beloved Cayamo: A Journey Through Song cruise (sailing March 13-20, 2026 from Miami, FL to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cayo Levantado, Dominican Republic), and a pair of summer shows supporting Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, set for Lenox, MA’s Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood (July 28) and Vienna, VA – Filene Center at Wolf Trap’s (July 29).
The upcoming live run celebrates the acclaimed release earlier this year of Griffin’s 11th studio collection and first new album in over six years, Crown Of Roses, available everywhere now on her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. Produced by longtime collaborator Craig Ross and featuring musical contributions from Griffin’s trusted band members David Pulkingham (guitar) and Michael Longoria (drums), Crown Of Roses drifts from spare folk to gauzy Americana to sly gospel blues over the course of eight moody new songs that evoke the scrubby west of Griffin’s adopted Texas and the calming verdancy of her home state of Maine. From the atmospheric “Born In A Cage” and the spectral “Long Time” (which includes a backing vocal cameo from Robert Plant) to the sparse, emotional authenticity of “Way Up To The Sky,” Crown of Roses is among Patty Griffin’s most profound works to date, continuing her exceptional talent for translating thorny concepts and finely wrought character studies into songs that speak as much to her own experience as they do to the lives of those who have loved her music now for more than three decades.
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PATTY GRIFFIN - TOUR 2025-2026
DECEMBER
19 – Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre
FEBRUARY 2026
11 – Albuquerque, NM – KiMo Theatre
13 – Santa Fe, NM –The Lensic
15 – Tucson, AZ – La Rosa
17 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theatre *
18 – El Cajon, CA – The Magnolia *
19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern *
22 – Menlo Park, CA – The Guild Theatre
24 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall †
25 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall †
26 – Seattle, WA,– Moore Theatre †
MARCH 2026
13-20 – Miami, FL – Cayamo: A Journey Through Song (SOLD OUT)
JULY 2026
28 – Lenox, MA - Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood ^
29 – Vienna, VA – Filene Center at Wolf Trap ^
* w/ Taj Mahal
† w/ Rickie Lee Jones
^ w/ Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
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PRAISE FOR PATTY GRIFFIN + CROWN OF ROSES
“So much turmoil is woven into Crown of Roses, eight tracks about family, love and politics that play out as country waltzes, little symphonies and jagged blues.”
– NEW YORK TIMES
“‘Crown of Roses presents a version of Griffin so sure of herself, so comfortable in the dim candlelight of the unknown. Her voice is colored with character that feels earned,
like leather softened from years of loving wear, with gradations
that make it seem new and different when the light hits just so.”
– NO DEPRESSION
“Patty Griffin’s songwriting only seems to grow richer and more intense with time...
Crown of Roses succeeds via its concentrated hush,
a rootless simmer that suggests the imminent arrival of a full storm.”
– UNCUT (“AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE MONTH,” 9/10)
“Worth the wait. Her voice is in excellent form
and her band has its understated arrangements down to an art.”
– MOJO
“As always, (Griffin’s) strength doesn’t lie in a simple confessionalism, but in connecting her meditations to broader ideas: family history, the world around her, and cultural concerns. Crown of Roses peers deep inside, particularly influenced by Griffin‘s evolving relationship with her late mother, but it also expands enough to let in any openhearted listener.”
– POPMATTERS
“(Crown of Roses) is finely balanced between consolation and a harder emotional terrain…
A victory of perseverance.”
– FINANCIAL TIMES (****)
“Griffin’s new album is a reclamation of sorts…
Its eight tracks showcase why she is so revered.”
– THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
“Quality shines from every bar of music and every syllable of the lyrics…Let’s hope that we don’t have to wait another six years for another record from Griffin.”
– AMERICANA UK
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ABOUT PATTY GRIFFIN:
Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over the course of three decades, the 2x GRAMMY® Award winner – and 8x nominee – has crafted an exceptional, still-evolving body of work that prompted the New York Times to hail her for “(writing) cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people…(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.” 2019 saw the acclaimed release of Griffin’s GRAMMY® Award-winning 10th studio recording, PATTY GRIFFIN, which made a top 5 debut on Billboard’s “Independent Albums” chart amidst unprecedented worldwide acclaim, and later, a prestigious GRAMMY® Award for “Best Folk Album.” Among her many other accolades, Griffin has garnered three prominent Americana Music Honors & Awards, including the esteemed “Lifetime Achievement Award,” and “Album of the Year” (for 2007’s Children Running Through) and “Artist of the Year,” making history as one of but a small group of female artists to win the latter award alongside Loretta Lynn, Gillian Welch, Brandi Carlile, and Sierra Ferrell. In addition to her remarkable creative career, Griffin has also devoted considerable energy and focus towards the well-being of the planet as well as showing compassion for the less fortunate among us via personal and public acts of charity. Having crafted a rich catalog that chronicles love and death, heartache and joy, connection and detachment, Crown of Roses now sees Patty Griffin continuing to push her miraculous art forward, as always imbuing every effort with compassion and craft, uncanny perception, and ever-increasing ingenuity.
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