Willie Watson announces UK headline tour for January 2025

Following the release of his widely acclaimed new album, and US tour, Willie Watson, the singer-songwriter, poet, actor and multi-instrumentalist will be coming to the UK at the start of 2025 for a headline tour. Additionally he will be appearing as part of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.

He will be playing the following shows:

January 2025

25th Nottingham Bodega

26th Leeds The Old Woollen

27th Liverpool Leaf

28th Glasgow Celtic Connections @ Cottiers Theatre

30th Manchester Night & Day

31st Bristol Thekla

February 2025

1st London 100 Club

Watson comments, “These songs of mine... they’ve rung out and sung out so clear and true on stages here at home in America. I can’t wait to hear how they feel on the stages across the sea in Great Britain!”

Bringing his beautiful songs to life, Watson has many years of musical output to draw from. However, the centrepiece of the performances will be Watson’s first-ever solo album of original material which, over 20 years into his career, was released worldwide last month.

The former founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show has been a part of numerous musical projects, soundtracks, and films. Yet this new collection of songs is honest and potent, an unadorned reflection of Watson’s life, his mistakes, his traumas, and his gratitude to still be here, to still be alive, and to still be loved. It's the type of record that can’t come early in one’s career and was won after a life of hard battles and difficult lessons.