Sufjan Stevens Announces Tour Dates and Includes Nashville

Following a critically-lauded, national tour this spring, Sufjan Stevens is set to embark on a tour of the U.S. this fall, playing dates in Santa Barbara, Nashville, Atlanta and Miami. Tickets will be available today Friday, July 24 via www.carrieandlowell.com

Carrie & Lowell was recorded by Stevens alongside Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett. Named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather, the 11 songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200, selling 50,538 albums in its first week and marking Stevens’ highest chart debut to date.

A singer-songwriter currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Stevens’ preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10),  a BAM-commissioned programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE), two collaborations with New York City Ballet choreographer and dancer Justin Peck, and an instrumental accompaniment to slow-motion rodeo footage—a second BAM-commission. In 2010 Stevens released an expansive EP (All Delighted People) and the full length The Age of Adz.

SUFJAN STEVENS LIVE

July 25                       Newport, RI                           Newport Folk Festival
August 14                  Lyons, CO                             Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
October 24                 Santa Barbara, CA                 The Arlington Theatre
October 25                 Phoenix, AZ                           Orpheum Theatre
October 26                 Albuquerque, NM                  Popejoy Hall
October 28                 Omaha, NE                            Orpheum Theater
October 30                 Buffalo, NY                           The Center for the Arts University at Buffalo
October 31                 Jersey City, NJ                      Loews Jersey Theatre
November 1               Baltimore, MD                       Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
November 3               Pittsburgh, PA                       Heinz Hall
November 4               Charlotte, NC                         Ovens Auditorium
November 5               Atlanta, GA                            Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
November 6               Orlando, FL                          Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center
November 7               Miami, FL                              Olympia Theater at Gusman Center
November 9               Charleston, SC                       North Charleston Performing Arts Center
November 10             Birmingham, AL                    Alabama Theatre
November 11             Nashville, TN                         Ryman Auditorium
November 12             Louisville, KY                        Robert S. Whitney Hall, The Kentucky Center
November 13             Cincinnati, OH                       Aronoff Center