Punch Brothers have announced an extensive spring and summer US tour. The shows start at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey, on May 14, and continue with shows in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Colorado, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. Details below. Pre-sale and VIP tickets for most newly announced shows begins this Wednesday, March 4, at 10am local time via punchbrothers.com. General on-sale will follow this Friday. More shows will be announced soon.

Punch Brothers' latest album, 2022's Hell on Church Street, is the band's reimagining of, and homage to, the late bluegrass great Tony Rice’s landmark solo album Church Street Blues, featuring an inspired collection of songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Monroe, and others. Recorded in November 2020, Hell on Church Street had been intended as both its own work of art and a gift to Rice, who died later that year. "After we got over the shock of losing our hero and friend," Noam Pikelny says, "we realized what Tony had left with us was his music, his spirit, and his legacy." "We spent a lot of time contemplating what happened when Church Street Blues hit our ears as a band," Chris Thile says: "we held it out, we conversed with it, and now we’re handing it to you." You can get the album and hear it here.

Chris Thile is currently touring Europe solo with music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more. On the album, he performs Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. For his second recording of Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas, 12 years after the first volume, the mandolin virtuoso opted for a more personal approach, allowing himself to take liberties with the scores, which he recorded in multiple, somewhat untraditional, locations of personal significance. “My mentor, Edgar Meyer, has shown me ... you practice Bach ... because it makes your life better," Thile says. "Because it makes the world around you seem like a better, happier place. Because communing with something that beautiful, made by a human being, continuing to be made and enjoyed by so many human beings, makes you proud to be human ... I love practicing Bach, and I wanted to try and share how that ongoing process feels and sounds to me." You can get the album and hear it here.

PUNCH BROTHERS ON TOUR