Leif Vollebekk Announces World Tour
Leif Vollebekk is thrilled to finally announce new North American and European concert dates. After having to postpone much of his New Ways tour dates due to the global pandemic back in March 2020, Vollebekk can’t wait to get back on the road and reunite with his fans, in the biggest concert venues he’s ever played to date in every city.
‘I had to pinch myself when they told me we were going back on tour,’ tells Leif. ‘All that comes to mind are the timeless words Willie Nelson : Just can’t wait to get on the road again / The life I love is making music with my friends.’
His most recent full-length, “New Ways”, was a sonic documentation of everything that Leif felt at the time; tenderness and violence, sex and rebirth. ‘Anything that I wouldn’t ever want to tell anyone – I just put it on the record,’ he says. It was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and Breakglass Studios in Montreal, and it features Olivier Fairfield (Timber Timbre) and Homer Steinweiss (The Dap-Kings, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson) on drums, and additional vocals by Angie McMahon. It was mixed by Chris Allen in NYC (Yoko Ono, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Rós, Margaret Glaspy) and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound (David Byrne, The War On Drugs, Gregory Alan Isakov, Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Bob Dylan, Patrick Watson). The album now has over 21 million streams.
This past June, during the first wave of the pandemic, Leif shared a short EP of two songs, “Rest”, a release that complemented his quiet introspection during these strange times and included an acoustic version and b-side from his 2017 breakthrough album “Twin Solitude”. That album had landed a spot on the Polaris Music Prize 2017 shortlist, a Juno nomination and is now at 40 million streams.
Tour Dates
Thu, Oct 14 – Quebec City, QC @ Palais Montcalm (SOLO)
Fri, Nov 19 – Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre
Sat, Nov 20 – Edmonton, AB @ Union Hall
Tue, Nov 23 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Wed, Nov 24 – Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom
Fri, Nov 26 – Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Ballroom
Sat, Nov 27 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange
Sun, Nov 28 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
Sat, Feb 19 – Montreal, QC @ M Telus
Thu, Feb 24 – Ottawa, ON, Bronson Centre
Sat, Feb 26 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Fri, Mar 4 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
Sat, Mar 5 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Sun, Mar 6 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Tue, Mar 8 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Wed, Mar 9 – Fort Collins, CO @ The Armory
Thu, Mar 10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Sat, Mar 12 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
Sun, Mar 13 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
Tue, Mar 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
Wed, Mar 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
Thu, Mar 17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Mon, Mar 21 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theater
Wed, Mar 23 – Fayetteville, AR @ Roots HQ
Fri, Mar 25 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Sat, Mar 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Smith’s Olde Bar
Sun, Mar 27 – Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records
Mon, Mar 28 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
Wed, Mar 30 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Thurs, Mar 31 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
Fri, Apr 1 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
Sat, Apr 2 – Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios
Sun, Apr 3 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room
Wed, Apr 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live Downstairs
Thu, Apr 7 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Fri, Apr 8 – Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
Sat, Apr 9 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Tue, Apr 26 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans
Thu, Apr 28 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Fri, Apr 29 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
Sat, Apr 30 – Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
Tue, May 3 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
Thu, May 5 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton
Fri, May 6 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Sat, May 7 – Brighton, UK @ CHALK Live
Mon, May 9 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephémère
Tue, May 10 – Brussels, BE @ AB Brussels
Wed, May 11 – Cologne, DE @ Artheater
Fri, May 13 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
Sat, May 14 – Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
Sun, May 15 – Vienna, AT @ Chelsea
Tue, May 17 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
Wed, May 18 – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
Thu, May 19 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
