First Aid Kit Announces Rebel Heart Tour
Swedish Sister Duo First Aid Kit will be making their way to the United States and parts of Europe as part of the extensive Rebel Heart Tour in 2018. The sisters will be in the United States in June, and then again in September through October. In July and August they will be touring in Europe. The North American leg will include marquee performances at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee, the Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas, and a date with Ryan Adams at the breathtaking Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.
Supporting on the tour on select dates will be up-and-coming country artist Jade Bird from Britain, Australian alt-country singer and songwriter Julia Jacklin, and M. Ward, of M Ward.
First launching their careers with a very ethereal and roots-inferred sound, sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg received recognition in Europe and the United States for breathtaking compositions such as “Emmylou” and “The Lion’s Roar.” Their second album Stay Gold brought them further worldwide recognition, leading to 2018’s Ruins, of which the duo is now touring behind. The new album was recorded in Portland, OR, and centers mostly around the the breakup of Klara Söderberg from her fiancee, and featured a more stripped-down and rootsy sound.
Tour Dates:
06/08 – Raleigh, NC North Carolina Museum of Art (w/ Jade Bird)
06/09 – Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
06/10 – St. Louis, MO The Pageant (w/ Jade Bird)
06/12 – Kansas City, MO The Truman (w/ Jade Bird)
06/13 – Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium (w/ Jade Bird)
06/30 – Ewijk, NL – Down the Rabbit Hole
07/01 – St. Gallen, CH – Openair St. Gallen
07/02 – Milan, IT – Garden Triennale
07/03 – Luxembourg City, LX – Den Atelier
07/05 – Roskilde, DK – Roskilde Festival
07/06 – Werchter, BE – Rock Werchter
07/08 – Turku, FI – Ruisrock
07/10 – Montreux, CH – Montreux Jazz Festival
07/12 – Helsingborg, SE – Sofiero Slott
07/14 – Skelleftea, SE – Nordanåområdet
07/17 – Rättvik, SE – Dalhalla
07/19 – Tonsberg, NO – Slottsfjell
07/21 – Salisbury, UK – Larmer Tree Festival
08/01 – Glasgow, UK – Kelvingrove Bandstand
08/03 – Cambridge, UK – Cambridge Folk Festival
08/04 – Wareham, UK – Bestival
08/05 – Waterford, IE – All Together Now Festival
08/17 – Leipzig, DE – Parkbühne GeyserHaus
08/24 – Boulogne-Billancourt, FR – Rock En Seine
08/31 – Stockholm, SE – Popaganda Festival
06/14 – Morrison, CO Red Rocks (w/ Ryan Adams)
09/06 – Portland, ME State Theatre (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/07 – Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/08 – Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore Philadelphia (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/10 – Washington D.C. The Anthem (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/11 – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/14 – Asheville, NC Highland Brewing Company (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/17 – Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/18 – Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/19 – Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/21-23 – Las Vegas, NV Life is Beautiful Festival
09/21 – Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/22 – Phoenix, AZ The Pressroom
09/25 – San Diego, CA Observatory North Park (w/ Julia Jacklin)
09/26 – Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre (w/ M. Ward)
09/28 – San Francisco, CA The Masonic (w/ M. Ward)
10/01 – Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
10/02 – Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/03 – Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
hoptowntiger94
May 13, 2018 @ 8:42 am
I get First Aid Kit and Milk Carton Kids mixed up.
Mike2
May 13, 2018 @ 11:02 am
Jade Bird isn’t really a country artist. She’s pop, but in a good way.
Cool Lester Smooth
May 13, 2018 @ 3:34 pm
Jade opened up for Colter when I saw him…and completely stole the show, haha.
There’s a lot of pop in there, but it comes from a country base and the kid’s absurdly talented.
Mike2
May 13, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
No disagreement there. She totally stole the show when I saw her open for First Aid Kit too. Even Klara said she was a tough act to follow up.
Cool Lester Smooth
May 13, 2018 @ 9:50 pm
I’m very, very excited for her first full-length. Seeing her in Dublin in November.
Kent
May 14, 2018 @ 5:58 am
Yes, she is even more pop than First Aid Kit but she has an amazing voice and loads of charisma. And she sings well and are only twenty something. And hasn’t even release a full album yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkXjtMqN0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07TXOoWI8wk
I think First Aid Kit should be careful it can be bit risky to have a opener that is more popular than yourself. 🙂 🙂
Cool Lester Smooth
May 14, 2018 @ 1:42 pm
Not even “20 something.” She’s 20, full stop.
So, so, staggeringly talented.
Kent
May 14, 2018 @ 2:45 pm
She’s 20, full stop”
Yes, I’ve read that she was twenty but it was a few months ago, so I
wasn’t sure whether she turned twenty-one yet or not.
I hope she continues to make music as now she does have her own style. Hope she doesn’t meet any producer who ruins her.
Another woman I hope will get her breakthrough is Courtney Marie Andrews.
She also has a wonderful voice and write such good songs.
First Aid Kit like here as well. They played her “Kindness Of Stranger” while hosting
a show on BBC 6 music in UK. They also talked about her in a Swedish Music Magazine.
Cool Lester Smooth
May 14, 2018 @ 3:53 pm
Yeah, I saw Courtney in March or April.
Absurdly talented human, and also better than the album.
Every song was at the intensity of “Two Cold Nights in Buffalo.”
Margo Price was great live, too. She really, really needs a better producer, because the records somehow manage to make her voice sound thin.
Blackh4t
May 13, 2018 @ 12:57 pm
Saw them in Sydney a month or so ago. Smoking hot band, incredible sound.
Audience was a total bunch of hipsters though and too much man-blaming especially from the support act.
Cool Lester Smooth
May 13, 2018 @ 3:36 pm
Shit, I’m moving to Ireland between their Waterford show and their Boston show, haha.
I’ll just miss ’em, on both ends!
Clyde
May 13, 2018 @ 4:00 pm
Found out about them from your playlist. Really like them. Might try to catch them in DC.
Nicolas Racine
May 14, 2018 @ 5:41 am
They’re great! I saw them in Montreal in Feb. One of my best shows this year.
Kent
May 14, 2018 @ 6:00 am
I wonder have this tour will work out for them. I’ve listening to videos from their concerts
and I think the songs from the new album is more difficult to sing live in particular songs like “To live a life and “Ruins”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaNdY_25nvQ
And it’s a bit ironic since the reason that they recordet most of the songs on Ruins live. Was because people have told them that the sound better live then on their albums…
But on the other hand the song that has lowest number of streams on spotify seem to work better live… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaG4XaMa6sU
Another thing I was afraid would happen did happen…They replaced on of their most popular “live song”, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d21IMXlkRk with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDFa6zrNsbk
And I have on more complaint their covers aren’t as good as they use to be. This is a cover of song by Heart and it isn’t even close to the original and Klara’s attempt to play the guitar intro that Nancy Wilson plays is almost embarrassing. Klara has simplify it but still don’t get the flow Nancy had and her singing isn’t as subtle as Ann’s… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2PypoG9PoY