Punch Brothers will return to Europe in January 2027 to tour in support of their forthcoming new record, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, due July 24 on Nonesuch Records. The 12-date run marks the band’s first shows in Europe in almost a decade, and will feature music from across Punch Brothers’ extensive back catalogue alongside tunes from their new album. The tour begins in the UK on January 14, before moving on to Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czech Republic and Switzerland; please see below for the full schedule. Tickets go on sale on Friday May 15at 10am BST/11am CET, except for Hamburg (on sale May 19) and Luxembourg (on sale in November, date TBS).

‘Song of the Water Kelpie (unsung)’, the second track to be released from the band’s new record, is available today along with a performance video, directed by Josh Goleman, which is available to view here.

On May 14 the band will embark on a sixty-four city North American tour – their most extensive tour since 2019 – performing through the spring, summer, and autumn, with headlining shows at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and festival performances including Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Spoleto Festival. Visit punchbrothers.com for more information.

The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is the seventh album from the Grammy-winning band – and its first comprising all instrumental tunes as well as its first with fiddle player Brittany Haas, who joined the quintet in 2023. The album features eight new original compositions by Punch Brothers as well as three traditional songs they arranged, and is produced by the band and engineered by Joseph Lorge, who most recently received a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album/Non-Classical for his work on Pino Palladino and Blake Mills’ That Wasn’t a Dream.

The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers European tour
Jan 14  – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon
Jan 15  – Glasgow, UK – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Celtic Connections)
Jan 17  – London, UK – Barbican
Jan 19  – Dusseldorf, DE – Savoy Theatre
Jan 20  – Paris, FR – Le Bataclan
Jan 21  – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Jan 22  – Hamburg, DE – Elbphilharmonie
Jan 23  – Luxembourg, LU – Philharmonie Luxembourg
Jan 25  – Berlin, DE – Konzertsaal UdK
Jan 26  – Brno, CZ – Sono
Jan 27  – Zurich, CH – Kirche Neumünster

Recorded at Guilford Sound Studio in Vermont last fall and winter, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is an album of music without words. Mandolinist Chris Thile, who founded the band in 2006, says, “This music is the result of what feels to me like our deepest but also most joyful exploration of the American string band in the twenty years we’ve been making music together. Something about the dichotomy of all the water under the bridge plus a new, brilliant teammate in Brittany. We all felt like kids in a candy store … so many possibilities and so much energy with which to pursue them, except with the kind of collective discipline and clarity of intent that only decades of collaboration affords.”

Punch Brothers is known for pushing the boundaries of acoustic music. In addition to Thile, the band currently comprises guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Brittany Haas. Punch Brothers has garnered critical acclaim, including a Grammy for Best Folk Album for All Ashore (2018). The Times praised their work as “brilliant, audacious, original and, above all, entertaining”.

Over the past two decades, Punch Brothers has become a pioneer in modern string music, with albums like Antifogmatic (2010), Who’s Feeling Young Now (2012), and The Phosphorescent Blues (2015) showcasing the group’s genre-defying sound. The Financial Times cites “the sinuous way that the five musicians move between different styles of music shows how far they have progressed beyond the ‘progressive bluegrass’ tag,” cementing their reputation as trailblazers in contemporary acoustic music. The band’s most recent album, Hell on Church Street (2021), is a reimagining of, and homage to, the late bluegrass great Tony Rice’s landmark solo album Church Street Blues.

Most recently, Punch Brothers have been focused on the band’s musical variety show, The Energy Curfew Music Hour. Season One is available on all podcast platforms, with season two exclusively out on Audible. Season 1 was nominated for a Webby Award in the ‘Podcast: Features, Experimental & Innovation’ category; it also won ‘Most Innovative Audio Experience’, ‘Best Live Podcast Recording’, and ‘Best Sound Design’ in the Listener’s Choice category of the 2025 Signal Awards.