Gillian Welch

Gillian and Dave stopped by WFUV last year to talk about the making of The Harrow & The Harvest, as well as their extensive 2011 tour. They perform 4 songs live in the studio. Listen here!

A Warren Hellman tribute concert is planned for Sunday, Feb. 19, in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. It will be a two-stage, one-day event in the style of Hellman’s wildly popular Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Hellman, who passed away late last year at the age of 77, is best known for funding the free bluegrass festival almost completely out of his own pocket every year since 2001, calling it his “selfish gift” to the city. Gillian and Dave will be joined by Old Crow Medicine Show, Emmylou Harris, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, and Warren’s own band, The Wronglers. More details to follow!

Check out our Best-Of Page to see our favorite end-of-year lists featuring Gillian from 2011, ranging from Concert of the Year to Best Album Artwork, to Album of the Year. You can also look back over the 90+ shows Gill and Dave played last year but looking at the tour page.

Click here to browse some photos from the 2011 H&H World Tour.

Redefine Magazine recently did an interview with the artist John Dyer Baizley, who created the album cover artwork for The Harrow & The Harvest.

“Gillian is great at building narratives within her songs and in finding an implied storyline across the course of her records. Clearly, any complimentary artwork would include elements of the pastoral and Gothic allegories for which Gillian is so renowned. ”
Click here to read the full interview!

“It’s a little weird to feel like veterans in the scene. I’m not really used to that, but I’ll take it. I feel like we’ve staked out some really good ground where now there are a lot of people. It’s kind of a party.” READ THE COVER STORY

Click here to read the review from the Boston Globe of the 12/13/11 at the Wilbur Theatre, the final show of the 2011 Tour that included over 90 tour dates! Also great reviews of the Boston shows featured on Relix, digboston.com, and berkleegroove.com.

The best of the 2011 lists are starting to roll in, and we’re collecting our favorites on a new page on the website. Click here to read some of the great press The Harrow & The Harvest is receiving at the end of its first year.

Congratulations to Gillian and Dave on their Grammy Nomination for Best Folk Album! Engineer Matt Andrews and Mastering Engineer Stephen Marcussen were also nominated for their work on The Harrow & The Harvest in the Best Engineered Album category. A full list of nominees and details on the February 12 broadcast can be found here.