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A close-up of Foy Vance.

Foy Vance

media release: Northern Ireland-born, Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter Foy Vance announces The Wake World Tour. The 60-date tour – in celebration of Vance’s March 13 album, The Wake – will kick off in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 3rd and wrap in Boston, on May 1, 2027.

Foy Vance will stop in Madison at Atwood Music Hall on April 16, 2027.

The world tour will start in Europe and the UK with stops including Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, London (two nights) and Dublin. The US portion includes Los Angeles (two nights), Denver, Nashville, Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York City.

Artist pre-sale begins February 24th at 10am local time and general on sale begins February 27th at 10am local time. Fans can learn more and get their tickets here:

https://www.foyvance.com/tour/

Out March 13 via Rounder Records, The Wake marks the completion of a 26-year grief journey, defined by Vance’s tireless soul-searching and life-altering revelation to create a series of seven albums following the passing of his father in 1999. He has carried one of his father’s favorite sayings -- “Give me the boy until he is 7, and I will show you the man” -- like a compass ever since, and The Wake finds Vance at the seventh album, marking the end (or beginning) of a chapter.

Produced by Ethan Johns (the Brit Award–winning producer known for his work with Paul McCartney, Ray LaMontagne, and more), the 13-track album brings Vance’s gritty vocal work to a potent convergence of folk, soul, and Southern blues, instilling every moment with unbridled vitality. At turns devastating, ecstatic and wildly illuminating, The Wake carries a title that reflects both sorrow and the promise of healing, and reveals an artist highly attuned to the task of preserving the human spirit in an often-unforgiving world.

The Wake World Tour will follow a series of special record store performances and intimate, sold-out album release shows in March. Plus, he’ll play a special hometown show, A Celebration of Life with Foy Vance, at Custom House Square in Belfast in August.

Across the decades, Vance has built a body of work where emotional immediacy meets sweeping, soulful sound — stories told with a kind of fearlessness and fragile humanity that feel hand-carved from his own life. Albums like Joy of Nothing, From Muscle Shoals, Signs of Life, and To Memphis have shaped his singular blend of Americana, folk, and soul, drawing praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, and Billboard, and earning admiration from artists including Ed Sheeran, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves, and Sir Elton John.