Alison Krauss & Union Station Reunite for MAJOR Tour, New Album
For the first time in nearly a decade, the legendary pairing of Alison Krauss and Union Station will be officially reuniting for a massive nationwide tour in 2025. In total, the pairing will perform some 70+ tour dates in the United States and Canada.
Even more exciting for fans of Alison Krauss and Union Station, the announcement comes with the promise of a new album on the way as well, which will be the first from the pairing in nearly 15 years—since 2011’s award-winning Paper Airplane. The name of the tour is “Arcadia,” which could be the name of the new album as well.
Also as part of the tour, Alison Krauss and Union Station have announced their newest band member, Russell Moore from the bluegrass band IIIrd Tyme Out. As the band’s frontman, Moore won six IBMA Awards as Male Vocalist of the Year. He will join Ron Block (banjo, guitar, vocals), Barry Bales (bass, vocals), and of course bluegrass Hall of Famer Jerry Douglas on dobro and vocals. Dan Tyminski, who was a long-time Union Station member, is not being mentioned as part of the lineup.
“I’m so grateful to get to make music again with my comrades of 40 years,” said Alison Krauss in a statement. “They’ve always accomplished incredible work individually and have been constantly traveling because of it. We’re very inspired to experience this new exciting chapter in the band’s history.”
Opening the tour will be Willie Watson, with an undisclosed “special guest” appearing on the first three dates of the tour. Not all of the dates have been announced just yet, but the dates that have been will go on sale Friday, December 6th, with presales available from Wednesday, December 4th at 10AM local through Thursday, December 5th at 10PM local.
For more info and tickets visit alisonkrauss.com.
Alison Krauss & Union Station Tour Dates:
- Thursday, April 17, 2025 | The Louisville Palace | Louisville, KY*
- Friday, April 18, 2025 | The Louisville Palace | Louisville, KY*
- Saturday, April 19, 2025 | Mershon Auditorium | Columbus, OH*
- Friday, April 25, 2025 | Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park | Atlanta, GA
- Saturday, April 26, 2025 | Live Oak Bank Pavilion | Wilmington, NC
- Sunday, April 27, 2025 | Koka Booth Amphitheatre | Cary, NC
- Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Bell Auditorium | Augusta, GA
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | The Adderley Amphitheater | Tallahassee, FL
- Friday, May 2, 2025 | The Wharf Amphitheater | Orange Beach, AL
- Saturday, May 3, 2025 | Brandon Amphitheater | Brandon, MS
- Sunday, May 4, 2025 | BJCC Concert Hall | Birmingham, AL
- Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Orpheum Theatre | Memphis, TN
- Monday, May 12, 2025 | First Security Amphitheater | Little Rock, AR
- Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | The Criterion | Oklahoma City, OK
- Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Saint Louis Music Park | Maryland Heights, MO
- Friday, May 16, 2025 | Walmart AMP | Rogers, AR
- Saturday, May 17, 2025 | Starlight Theatre | Kansas City, MO
- Thursday, May 29, 2025 | Smart Financial Centre | Sugar Land, TX
- Friday, May 30, 2025 | Whitewater Amphitheater | New Braunfels, TX
- Saturday, May 31, 2025 | The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory | Irving, TX
- Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | PNC Pavilion | Cincinnati, OH
- Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater | Decatur, IL
- Friday, June 6, 2025 | BMO Pavilion | Milwaukee, WI
- Saturday, June 7, 2025 | The Chicago Theatre | Chicago, IL
- Sunday, June 8, 2025 | The Ledge | Waite Park, MN
- Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | Vetter Stone Amphitheater | Mankato, MN
- Wednesday, June 11, 2025 | Bayfront Festival Park | Duluth, MN
- Friday, June 13, 2025 | McGrath Amphitheatre | Cedar Rapids, IA
- Saturday, June 14, 2025 | Denny Sanford Premier Center | Sioux Falls, SD
- Sunday, June 15, 2025 | The Astro Amphitheater | Omaha, NE
- Monday, June 16, 2025 | Hartman Arena | Park City, KS
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | Morrison, CO
- Friday, June 20, 2025 | Dillon Amphitheater | Dillon, CO
- Saturday, June 21, 2025 | Kit Carson Park | Taos, NM
- Friday, July 11, 2025 | Arizona Financial Theatre | Phoenix, AZ
- Saturday, July 12, 2025 | The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park | San Diego, CA
- Sunday, July 13, 2025 | Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA
- Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | Santa Barbara Bowl | Santa Barbara, CA
- Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | The Mountain Winery | Saratoga, CA
- Friday, July 18, 2025 | Grand Theatre | Reno, NV
- Saturday, July 19, 2025 | Redding Civic Auditorium | Redding, CA
- Sunday, July 20, 2025 | Edgefield Amphitheater | Troutdale, OR
- Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | Wine Country Amphitheater | Walla Walla, WA
- Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden | Boise, ID
- Saturday, July 26, 2025 | Theatre at the Brick | Bozeman, MT
- Sunday, July 27, 2025 | BECU Live at Northern Quest | Airway Heights, WA
- Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | Grey Eagle Resort & Casino | Calgary, AB
- Thursday, July 31, 2025 | TCU Place | Saskatoon, SK
- Friday, August 1, 2025 | Centennial Concert Hall | Winnipeg, MB
- Tuesday, August 19, 2025 | Massey Hall | Toronto, ON
- Thursday, August 21, 2025 | Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park | Indianapolis, IN
- Friday, August 22, 2025 | Ascend Amphitheater | Nashville, TN
- Saturday, August 23, 2025 | The Tennessee Theatre | Knoxville, TN
- Sunday, August 24, 2025 | The Tennessee Theatre | Knoxville, TN
- Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium | Chattanooga, TN
- Thursday, August 28, 2025 | The Dome | Virginia Beach, VA
- Friday, August 29, 2025 | Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront | Richmond, VA
- Saturday, August 30, 2025 | Earl Scruggs Music Festival | Mill Spring, NC +
- Saturday, September 6, 2025 | Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre | Sterling Heights, MI
- Sunday, September 7, 2025 | Jacobs Pavilion | Cleveland, OH
- Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | Wolf Trap | Vienna, VA++
- Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark | Philadelphia, PA
- Friday, September 12, 2025 | Beacon Theatre | New York, NY
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | Veterans Memorial Auditorium | Providence, RI
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Leader Bank Pavilion | Boston, MA
- Friday, September 19, 2025 | BankNH Pavilion | Gilford, NH
- Saturday, September 20, 2025 | The Green at Shelburne Museum | Shelburne, VT
- Sunday, September 21, 2025 | Artpark Mainstage Theater | Lewiston, NY
- Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Salem Civic Center | Salem, VA
- Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Credit One Stadium | Charleston, SC
- Friday, September 26, 2025 | The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre | St. Augustine, FL
- Saturday, September 27, 2025 | The BayCare Sound | Clearwater, FL
- Sunday, September 28, 2025 | Hard Rock Live | Hollywood, FL
*denotes Special Guest TBD, all other dates featuring Special Guest Willie Watson
+denotes tickets already on sale on the festival website
++denotes artist pre-sale happening February 11, 2025 followed by public on-sale
December 3, 2024 @ 7:34 pm
“of 40 years…” That’s only because she joined the band as a 14 yr old prodigy. 🙂
December 4, 2024 @ 9:58 am
Union Station existed before Bales, Block & Tyminski joined the band. Viktor Krauss played in the earliest configurations of the group as did Jeff White and later, Allison Brown. The aforementioned musicians were in a band at ETSU I believe, called Dusty Roads, when Alison hired them.
December 3, 2024 @ 8:07 pm
So…Dan Tyminskis out of the band? Hmmm. Kinda bummed about that.
I do like Russell Moore, he is as pure trad-grass as you can get. Alison, at one point many years ago was trad-grass as well. But shes morphed into something of a hybrid mix of styles. Curious if the new album will feature some up-tempo strong banjo lead kinda stuff, or if it will be more morose.
December 3, 2024 @ 8:31 pm
Yeah, I’d say a majority of what she has been remembered for is not bluegrass, which I am not a fan of. Her voice just comes off as whiny when she plays all her slow songs
December 4, 2024 @ 7:53 am
Saw her and Union Station around 1992. I’ve always loved Alison Krauss. My gf did not, her opinion was like yours, Rose. Me and gf split up 🙂 She got married, and her husband’s a HUGE Alison Krauss fan 🙂 ………… happy chuckles
72 shows, wow. Maybe she’ll come up with a song along the lines of “I’ve Been Everywhere”
December 4, 2024 @ 3:11 pm
Interesting opinion. I don’t view her voice as whiney at all and she doesnt rely on vocal vibrato as a crutch. Her voice is very clean and pure sounding.
People perceive vocals differently. I hate the sound of Rascall Flatt’s vocalist with every fiber of my being. I also can’t listen to a lot of the semi-famous Americana women because of their fake vocal twang which is just hillbilly singing in cursive.
December 3, 2024 @ 8:50 pm
People have been blowing me up all day asking where Dan Tyminski is. Honestly, bluegrass is not really my beat, so I don’t have a ton of insight here, though I have put out some feelers. But a 72-date commitment is a big one, and Dan these days doesn’t really need to play second fiddle to anyone. My guess is trying to get Alison’s, Dan’s, and Jerry’s schedules to align is one of the reasons they haven’t toured in 10 years.
December 3, 2024 @ 11:50 pm
Trig,
Dan T. is happy as can be. He recently did a podcast with Bluegrass Unlimited expressing how very delighted he is with his current band and his place in life. It’s a great Podcast if you want to know what he’s up to these days. Also… he just released a live from the Ryman album. It’s a solid bluegrass record with exceptional singing and playing.
December 4, 2024 @ 7:54 am
Yeah, that’s my read on the situation. His live album from the Ryman was just nominated for a Grammy Award. I appreciate the nostalgia factor for some having him in Union Station, but I don’t even think of Dan Tyminski as being tied to Union Station anymore. I just think of Dan Tyminski as Dan Tyminski.
December 4, 2024 @ 5:11 am
Russell Moore has effectively replaced Dan Tyminski as AKUS’ guitar/mandolin player, and vocalist. Historically, it makes since for AKUS, since a different person tends to fill that role every couple albums or so. Granted, Dan has been with AKUS the longest since Tim Stafford left the band in the early 90’s. Not a single other member of AKUS has gained national acclaim like Alison has aside from Dan, (which was due to the ‘Oh Brother’ fame), so I can understand how it’s a bit more shocking for the fans, and the music industry as a whole. But as a longtime AKUS fanatic, I’m excited to hear their new sound and see them on tour once again.
December 3, 2024 @ 9:46 pm
Looking forward to a whole weekend of Alison in Knoxville next August.
December 3, 2024 @ 11:47 pm
Finally AKUS is back! That damn Robert Plant is finally out of the picture. I’ve seen AKUS, Dan Tyminski Band and Russell Moore & Third Tyme Out dozens of dozens of dozens of times and I can GUARANTEE you Russell with AKUS will be ear candy for all. This is the best news, (although I knew about it months ago, because Bluegrass is still thankfully a small circle).
December 5, 2024 @ 7:22 am
I wonder if the new album will be more bluegrass-centric like AKUS’ older material due to Russell’s inclusion? I’d love to hear Alison play some killer fiddle breaks again. As good as Paper Airplane was, that was my biggest criticism with it. Alison did virtually no fiddle playing on the album.
December 5, 2024 @ 7:40 am
Hard to tell regarding bluegrass content on a new album. Just like Russell, Dan T is as bluegrass as it gets.
December 5, 2024 @ 10:06 am
Being somewhat knowledgeable of the Grass scene and Union Station, Dan’s role in the band as i saw it, was to provide some harder charged driving Bluegrass to the mix as a counter balance to Alison’s oft sad and slow Americana ballad material. She has a thing for hopelessly sad love songs and thats by her own admission. But you could always count on Dan to bust out a fast Jimmy Martin or Flatt and Scruggs style tune with a ripping banjo lead, thanks to Ron Block. As great as Alison is, left entirely to her own devices, she would likely stay in the slow lane, without the aid of Union Station.
December 4, 2024 @ 3:31 am
The only fault I see in the Atlanta venue is the crowd – Chastain Park is a nice outdoor setting, but the locals come late, talk and talk and talk, and feel they can get up and wander… plus there’s a curfew of 11:00 or so, so if the band gets into a groove and wants to do an extended set or additional encore they’ll be playing with their eye on the clock and not muse…
December 4, 2024 @ 5:05 am
Talk and talk and talk seems to be standard at any show anywhere. STFU and listen
December 4, 2024 @ 11:51 am
I have asked people to stop talking at shows a number of times. At an All For The Hall show at the Ryman years ago, a drunk and loud guy next to me kept flapping his lips to his drunk friends behind us. I said “I didn’t come here to listen to you talk.” He exploded and started swearing at me. He was much bigger than I am.
I simply said, “my brother is the head of security here. If you’d like, I can go talk to him and have you removed.” The guy settled down, and said, “you don’t have to be such an asshole.” Me, the one not talking, was the asshole in his eyes. He shut his mouth, and the couple next to me thanked me.
After the show, I walked to the first security guard I saw, and struck up a conversation while the guy and his group of friends filed past me. I expected I might run into him on Broadway later, but I never saw him.
Great news about Alison and US.
December 4, 2024 @ 12:43 pm
Jimmy
Thanks for your response. Over the summer we saw 3 shows at 3 different venues in the span of a week and 1/2
At Cody Jinks wsg Blackberry Smoke, the people behind us yelled the whole time. At Jamey Johnson, we got up and moved; only to have a larger group of couples move near us, and talked and talked and talked
At Jim Messina, the guy behind my wife dropped f bomb after f bomb & his buddy tried to yell all the lyrics and scat sing the instrumental solos
Of course at all 3 shows too much alcohol was involved with the other people
Years ago, when I was at my worst, falling down drunk/high as a kite, I still knew I was there to listen. I don’t know why crowds today are there, given the ticket prices
December 6, 2024 @ 11:06 am
I sympathize with you Jimmy and applaud your actions. I’m trying to think up a strategy for me in future – maybe –
in full view, open my (cheap) flipfone and say “This is great, I’m recording your thoughts to listen back to later in reminiscence!)
December 4, 2024 @ 7:23 am
I’ll definitely be getting tickets to the KC show, but I am pretty bummed that Dan tyminsky won’t be involved. Some of my favorite akus songs are led by tyminsky and I’m curious if they were even attempt those.
December 4, 2024 @ 3:06 pm
I am very tempted to get tickets to this even though I am bummed that Dan Tyminski is not in the lineup. DT has been in and out of the band during their history so I don’t view this as a reason to not see it as a valid lineup despite it being dissapointing.
Two years ago I saw Alison Krauss with Robert Plant and it was a good show.
December 4, 2024 @ 4:48 pm
I also recall a recent podcast with news that Dan Tyminski had officially left AKUS, though I can’t find the specific podcast in question. Sorry!
He was definitely a large part of AKUS and will be missed, but I’m sure she’ll be just as amazing both live and on record, as usual.
She a national treasure if you ask me.
December 4, 2024 @ 9:59 pm
I will definitely buy tickets for my wife and me to see them at Wolf Trap. I’m sorry Dan Tyminski is no longer part of the ensemble, but I wish him well. He’s a tremendous artist. Russell Moore seems like a fine new addition, and I’m looking forward to new AKUS music after such a long hiatus.
December 6, 2024 @ 2:42 pm
For those concerned Russell is one of the best singers in bluegrass and has been for decades. Great picker and as good a singer as anybody. Will definitely boss Dan is a monster too but I wouldn’t worry, as mentioned above this is par for the course for bluegrass bands and Russell has a back catalogue of his own that ppl who aren’t hip will be delighted to hear. This is nothing but good news, can’t wait to catch a show.
December 10, 2024 @ 4:48 am
Why not the Netherlands?😟
I got tickets for her concert together with Robert Plant. Wich was canceled 2 hours before.
Woud love to seen her perform live with union station. The album Paper airplane is still a favorite for me and my daugter of 20❤️ greetings to all😊