Alison Tours with Willie Nelson

ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION ANNOUNCE CO-HEADLINING 2014 TOUR DATES with COUNTRY SUPERSTAR WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

Rounder Records has announced that music legends and Grammy Award winning artists Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas will be touring together throughout the spring and summer. 

The 35 city US tour will kick off May 1 in Murray, KY at the CFSB Center at Murray State University and run through July 18 in Toledo, OH.

The tour will mark the first time that Willie Nelson and Family & Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas have shared the stage together.

The two groups’ unique personalities combined with impeccable musicianship and decades of award-winning songs are sure to create a show full of unforgettable moments.
 

With a six-decade career and 200 plus albums, Willie Nelson is the creative genius behind the historic recordings of “Crazy”, “Red Headed Stranger” and “Stardust.” He has earned every conceivable award as a musician and amassed reputable credentials as an author, actor and activist.  Heroes, his 2012 release and first album for Legacy Recordings, spent five weeks at #1 on the Americana Radio Chart. His book, Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die, landed in the Top 10 on The New York Times' best-seller list.  In 2013, Willie's albums included April's Let's Face The Music And Dance, an album of deep pop country repertoire classics performed with transformative patented ease by Nelson and Family, his long-time touring and recording ensemble; and October's To All The Girls… which features 18 duets with music's top female singers including Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, and Shelby Lynne.

Alison Krauss is a virtuoso who effortlessly bridges the gap between roots music and country, rock and pop.  Since signing with Rounder Records at the age of 14, Krauss has sold over 12 million albums and won 27 Grammy Awards, the most for any female and the second most of any recording artist in Grammy history. Paper Airplane is the latest masterpiece in Krauss’ illustrious career.  Recorded in partnership with her remarkably skillful and renowned band, Union Station, the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass and Folk Album Charts upon its release.  Union Station – Jerry Douglas (dobro, lap steel, vocals), Dan Tyminski (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal), Ron Block (banjo, guitar) and Barry Bales (bass, vocals), with Krauss on lead vocal and fiddle – are five distinct personalities who come together to form something truly unique as a band.  Each bandmate has his own bustling career, but when these singular musicians come together, they’re an airtight unit devoted to the process of making music together.  Indeed, their connection is so close and deep that they’ve come to think of each other as family.

 
2014 TOUR DATES: (All dates are subject to change.)
 
May 1               Murray, KY                   CFSB Center/Murray State University*
May 2               Atlanta, GA                  Chastain Park Amphitheatre *
May 3               Knoxville, TN               Thompson Boling Arena*
May 4               Cary, NC                       Koka Booth Amphitheatre*
May 6               St. Augustine, FL        St. Augustine Amphitheatre*
May 8               Daniel Island, SC         Family Circle Cup Stadium*
May 9               Simpsonville, SC         Charter Amphitheatre*
May 10             Greensboro, NC           White Oak Amphitheatre*
May 11             Huntington, WV           Big Sandy Superstar Arena*
May 13             Roanoke, VA                Roanoke Civic Center*
May 14             Columbus, OH              Schottenstein Center*
May 16             Nashville, TN                The Woods at Fontanel*
May 17             Birmingham, AL            BJCC*
May 18             Augusta, GA                 James Brown Arena*
June 5              Southaven, MS             Snowden Grove Amphitheater #
June 6              Louisville, KY               Waterfront Park+
June 7              Lewiston, NY                Artpark #
June 8              Bethel, NY                     Bethel Woods Center For the Arts #
June 10            New York, NY                Radio City Music Hall #
June 13            Philadelphia, PA           Mann Center #
June 14            Columbia, MD               Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 15            Simsbury, CT                Simsbury Meadows #
June 17            Boston, MA                   Blue Hills Bank Pavilion #
June 19            Bangor, ME                   Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion #
June 20            Gilford, NH                    Bank of NH Pavillion at Meadowbrook #
June 21            Canandaigua, NY         CMAC Performing Arts Center #
July 6               Kansas City, MO           Starlight Theatre ~
July 7               Rogers, AR                   Arkansas Music Pavilion ~
July 9               Oklahoma City, OK       Zoo Amphitheatre ~
July 11             Council Bluffs, IA         Harrah’s Stir Cove~
July 12             Chicago, IL                    Ravinia Festival~
July 13             Detroit, MI                      Freedom Hill~
July 15             Rama, ON                       Casino Rama
July 17             Interlochen, MI              Kresge Auditorium~
July 18             Toledo, OH                    Toledo Zoo