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Updated 09/03/25
Old
news
Bonnie Prince Billy:
USA:
15/04/25 Lexington, KY, Recital
Hall at Singletary Center for the Arts (info)
Europe:
10/05/25 Leuven, Het Depot (info)
11/05/25
Antwerpen, Arenberg - De Grote (info)
12/05/25 Nijmegen, Doornroosje (info)
13/05/25 Amsterdam, Paradiso (info)
15/05/25 Kortrijk, Het Wilde
Westen (info)
17/05/25 Nantes, Stereolux
18/05/25 Paris, La Cigale
20/05/25 Warsaw, Pardon To Tu (info)
21/05/25 Warsaw, Pardon To Tu
USA:
06/08/25 Washington, DC, Miracle
Theatre
07/08/25 Philadelphia, PA,
Harrison Auditorium at Penn
08/08/25 Brooklyn, NY, Pioneer
Works
09/08/25 Northampton, MA, Iron
Horse Music Hall
10/08/25 Portsmouth, NH, The
Press Room
05/09/25 Toronto, ON, The Concert
Hall (info)
06/09/25 Detroit, MI, Third Man
Records Cass Corridor (info)
07/09/25 Sawyer, MI, Out There
08/09/25 Evanston, IL, Evanston
Space (info)
09/09/25 Evanston, IL, Evanston
Space
11/10/25 Ford Wayne, IN, Brass
Rail
Old tourdates:
USA:
All dates with Dave Ferguson:
07/02/25 Santa Cruz, CA, Vet's
Hall
08/02/25 San Francisco, CA, Grace
Cathedral
09/02/25 Grass Valley, CA, Center
for the Arts
10/02/25 Sonoma, CA, Sebastiani
Theatre
12/02/25 Ojai, CA, Topa Bowl
14/02/25 Los Angeles, CA, Pico
Union Project
28/01/25 New
York, Rough Trade NYC - Bonnie Prince Billy will be appearing in person at
Rough Trade NYC at 6pm, for a live performance and signing in
support of his new album ‘The Purple Bird’
20/12/24 Louisville, KY,
Headliners -An
Evening of Louisville and Kentucky Music and Songs to benefit
Dare To Care with The Everybody Band, including Bonnie Prince
Billy and many others
UK:
01/12/24 London, Rough Trade East, instore (live
& signing)
USA
14/11/24 Louisville, KY, Bomhard
Theatre, Festival of Faiths - (look) (info)
Germany:
09/10/24 Karlsruhe, Tollhaus
10/10/24 Frankfurt, Zoom
11/10/24 Erlangen, Redoutensaal
12/10/24 Regensburg, Audimax
13/10/24 München, Kammerspiele
15/10/24 Essen, Lichtburg
16/10/24 Leipzig, Peterskirche
17/10/24 Hamburg, Kampnagel
18/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
19/10/24 Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Saal (info)
USA:
21-22/09/24 Accord, NY, Arrowood
Farm Brewery, Woodsist Festival (info)
07-08/09/24 Evanston, IL, Dawes
Park, Evanston Folk Festival (info)
UK:
29/08/24 Salisbury, End Of The
Road Festival (info)
30/08/24 Manchester, New Century
Hall (info) (look at the gig)
31/08/24 Glasgow, Queen Margreat
Union (info)
01/09/24 Birmingham, Supersonic
Festival (info)
Ireland:
22/08/24 Clonakilty, DeBarras (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
23/08/24 Cork, The Everyman (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
24/08/24 Limerick, Dolan's
Warehouse (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
25/08/24 Galway, Roisin Dubh (w/
Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary) (photos)
26/08/24 Dublin, National Concert
Hall (w/ Nuala Kennedy, Eamon O'Leary)
27/08/24 Dublin, Whelan's (look and look)
26-28/07/24
Nelsonville, OH, Nelsonville Music Festival (info)
01-04/08/24 Portland, OR, Pickathon
(info) (check out In The
Wilderness)
25/07/24
Louisville, Headliners (info) (with Dave Howard, Dane
Waters, Sara Callaway, Jacob Duncan and Thomas Deakin)
Listen back from here
14/07/24
Lexington, KY, Kentucky Theatre, Harry Dean Stanton Fest
Will Oldham will join the This Must Be The Place screening and do a
Q&A before the screening to discuss his participation in the
film
Italy:
15/05/24 Torino, Spazio 211 (info) (video)
16/05/24 Milano, Santeria Toscana
31 (info)
17/05/24 Parma, Teatro Farmesee (info)
18/05/24 Padua, Anfiteatro Del
Venda (info)
19/05/24 Pesaro, Mengarden
21/05/24 Perugia, Auditorio San
Francesco al Prato
22/05/24 Roma, Monk - Sala Teatro
23/03/24 Knoxville, TN, Big Ears
Festival (info)(tickets)
•Tiny
Room Records is celebrating
its 10th anniversary with a very special release: Foundlings Vol. 1 & 2.
To mark this milestone a double album will come out with
‘foundlings’—unreleased tracks from artists in and
around the label.
It has contributions by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Karl Blau, Perry Owen Wright, Coaster, Ilsha,
Combo Qazam, and many more (06/02/25)
•Check out Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief in
Los Angeles. It contains
62 tracks and among those is a new version of West Palm Beach by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Sascha)(06/02/25)
•Here's the 3rd single of the new album: Downstream (feat. John Anderson), video by Michael Cullen (07/01/25)
•Here's the 2nd single of the new album: London May, video by Sai Selvarajan
(03/12/24)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy comes up with a
new album: The
Purple Bird. Recorded with David Ferguson. Pre-order here, here, here. To be released January 31.
Watch the first single of the album: Our Home (feat. Tim O'Brien)(23/10/24)
•Cardinals At My Window, is a compilation that has, next to the
other 136 contributions, a song by S.G. Goodman featuring Bonnie Prince
Billy (thanks
Jonathon)(10/10/24)
100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of
Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR),
and BeLoved Asheville.
•Finally to be seen, Burn To Shine 4: Louisville. Recorded November 27, 2005 with Paul & Will Oldham, Parlour, Magik Markers and others
(thanks Sascha)(09/10/24)
•Vague news, but it seems a new Bonnie Prince Billy album will appear in about 4 months or so
(13/09/24)
•High and High and Mighty by Bonnie Prince Billy is released on vinyl
through No Quarter (07/09/24)
•Listen to Liffeyside by Nuala Kennedy
& Eamon
O'Leary with Will Oldham singing along in the Liffeyside Chorus
(21/06/24)
•To be released May 31: Hear The Children Sing The Evidence by Bonnie Prince Billy, Nathan Salsburg
& Tyler Trotter. On No
Quarter (thanks
Leon)(25/04/24)
•Listen to episode 1623: Will Oldham
at WTF with Marc Maron (thanks Joshua)(09/03/25)
•Listen to NTS with Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Marc)(09/03/25)
•Listen here to Transmissions: with Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks ray)(21/02/25)
•Listen here to Will Oldham
and how he ended up conducting Johnny Cash in the recording booth
(thanks ray)(21/02/25)
•You can read We’ve Got A File On You: Bonnie “Prince” Billy at Stereogum (thanks ray)(06/02/25)
•Listen to Kreative Kontrol Ep. #944 with Bonnie “Prince” Billy (thanks Marc)(30/01/25)
•In The Independent you can read how Bonnie Prince Billy wrote a song that made his legs turn to jelly
(thanks John)(30/01/25)
•Check Will
Oldham on Office Hours (was live) at around 20 minnutes in (thanks
Marc)(30/01/25)
•There's a interview with Bonnie Prince Billy in The Guardian, you can read here (thanks Charles)(19/01/25)
•On Januray 30 there's a listening party on Bandcamp.
Join Bonnie
Prince Billy for this party
on the eve of "The Purple Bird". Hear the record, chat with fellow fans and
BPB himself! (19/01/25)
•Check out two video where Will Oldham is playing New Pony by Bob Dylan and
Cherry by JJ Cale (thanks
John)(15/12/24)
•Listen to episode 99 of The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast
for Kids and Families.
Bone Wars
and The Ghost Town Rhyolite:
This episode features the narration talents of musician Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie Prince Billy. Will
tells the story of Rhyolite,
a town once founded in Death Valley after the discovery of gold
by Frank “Shorty” Harris. Today it is a ghost town
(thanks ray)(06/11/24)
•Will
Oldham on the building blocks of music (thanks ray)(29/08/24)
•Listen here to Bonnie Prince Billy's random playlist at the Freak Zone Playlist
(while it lasts) (thanks ray)(21/08/24)
•Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White
form new band The Hard Quartet, read about it here (thanks John)(20/07/24)
•If you're a member you can read The Aquarium Drunkard interview about the latest output covering Lungfish (thanks ray)(14/06/24)
•Listen to Will Oldham
at Big Ears Music Festival 2024 (thanks ray)(01/06/24)
•Will Oldham on Steve Albini (thanks ray)(17/05/24)
•Swimsuit released a coverversion of One With The Birds, check it out here (thanks Karl)(10/05/24)