Gillian Welch

Gillian has just been confirmed as the Saturday night headliner for the Calgary Folk Music Festival on July 28th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The 4-day festival is from July 26th to the 29th. Other artists include Iron & Wine, Beirut, Chris Isaak, and Randy Newman. You can find more info at the festival website, and you can buy tickets online here.

The Sante Fe, NM, show on 6/4 is now Sold Out. All other shows on the spring tour are on sale and still have tickets available. Visit the tour page for more info.

Gillian and Dave will be back on the road in May and June for a two-week tour through the Southwest US. All shows go on sale this Friday, April 20th. Some of the shows will have a special presale on Thursday, April 19th, from 10 am to 10 pm. See the tour page details!

We are excited to announce the launch of a project that’s been a long time coming: the online Gillian Welch Archive. Starting with Live Show setlists and setlist photos from the 2011 The Harrow & The Harvest tour, we have created a way for you to easily browse and search through Gillian Welch shows.

You can browse through the archive by viewing a list of shows by year, click through show-by-show with the previous show/next show arrows, or you can use the search bar on each page to search for a specific song, venue, city, state, or country. You can also add comments to each show.

All throughout next week, we will be adding YouTube clips, show posters pics, lives shots, and more to each show page, so keep checking back for updates. Click here to view the archive.

Click here to watch Gillian and David’s entire performance from the Warren Hellman tribute in San Francisco, CA, on Sunday, February 19th. There are markers for each set, and Gillian’s begins at the 3:15 mark.

The Warren Hellman Public Celebration, a free concert paying tribute to the founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, is taking place this Sunday, February 19th, in San Francisco, and featuring performances by Gillian and David, Old Crow Medicine Show, Emmylou Harris, and many more. The event begins at 11am PST and goes to 6pm PST, and it is free! More details about location, transportation, and more can be found on the FAQ page.

For those of you not in San Francisco this weekend, the event can be streamed live online at www.strictlybluegrass.com.

Don’t forget to tune in this Sunday, February 12th, to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS. Gillian and David’s 2011 release The Harrow & The Harvest is nominated for two Grammys this year, one for Best Folk Album and another for Best Engineered Album. These categories will most likely be aired during the Pre-Telecast Ceremony from 1-3 pm PST, which can be accessed at the live online stream on Grammy.com. The live telecast begins at 5 pm PST on CBS.

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!