Steve Earle, Allison Russell, Richard Thompson, and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze are among the many artists on the total invoice for the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival, newly introduced by organizers.
Friday’s line-up (June 23) is headlined by the Saw Doctors, preceded by Earle. Russell can be on that invoice together with such names as Newton Faulkner, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, and Seth Lakeman. Saturday is headlined by former Squeeze, Ace, and Mike and the Mechanics member, and solo soul-pop favourite Paul Carrack, preceded by Glen Hansard, Tilbrook along with his band Beautiful Landing, Thompson, Badly Drawn Boy, the Sharon Shannon Trio, the Magic Numbers, and others.
Sunday’s acoustic stage festivities are headlined by Rickie Lee Jones, on a invoice that additionally options enduring singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan, Laura Cantrell, Rumer, and Toyah Willcox and husband and King Crimson mainstay Robert Fripp. Also taking part in is Naomi Kimpenu, a finalist in Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition 2023, supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation.
Tilbrook and his band will play three warm-up reveals for Glastonbury at Arc in Stockton on June 10; Brudenell, Leeds (11), and The Brook, Southampton (16). Earle is among the many different artists on tour within the UK with a Glastonbury look because the centerpiece of their schedule. After a Grand Ole Opry present this Saturday (27), he travels to Europe for reveals in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, earlier than beginning his UK and Irish itinerary at a June 9 present on the Grand Opera House in York. His particular visitor on the dates is Scottish singer-songwriter Roseanne Reid.
Earle has no fewer than 14 dates, together with one in the course of the run in Spain, earlier than his final present on June 29 in Dublin. With admirable stamina, he then begins an enormous American tour on July 1, which concludes at his personal Camp Copperhead in Big Indian, NY on September 5, with company Shawn Colvin and Anders Osborne.
Listen to Steve Earle’s basic 1988 album Copperhead Road.