Viral country-rock stars The Red Clay Strays are hitting the road this year! The group from Mobile, Alabama, found massive viral success in late 2022 with their single Wondering Why, leading to their first-ever appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 and a record deal with RCA. After winning Emerging Artist of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards in 2024, they are definitely one to watch!

Formed over ten years ago, this country/folk band has gone from strength to strength over the years, with one of their major successes being 2015's #1 album Jekyll + Hyde, which sold over 200,000 copies in its first week alone! 2026 sees Zac and his fellow bandmates trekking through North America with support from Old Crow Medicine Show, Brothers Osborne, Grace Potter, and Fitz and The Tantrums. Zac Brown Band will be playing their acclaimed new album of the same title, so make sure you don't miss this expansive new outing!

Indie folk darlings The Head and The Heart are heading out on tour to bless your ears with their plethora of hit tracks and a first listen to some brand new music! Formed in 2009 the six-piece have enjoy a stratospheric rise to stardom. Their 2016 release Signs of Light saw the group hit the top five in the US charts!

Seattle natives Minus The Bear combine sophisticated math rock time signatures with ear-burrowing melodies and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. With song titles Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! and Lemurs, Man, Lemurs, the quartet indeed marches to the beat of their own intriguing odd-metered drums. Bursting out of the windy city with their prog-tinged indie rock in 2001, the band hit their stride six years later with the release of seminal fan favorite Planet Of Ice, since then the band has gone from strength to strength and solidified their name in the genre.

Hitting the road in North America this year is Leonid and Friends, the YouTube sensation tribute band to Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire and others, from Eastern Europe! Despite never having seen Chicago live (they never toured to band leader Leonid Vorobyev's home country of Russia), the group became a global hit for their stunning recreation of the music of the legendary American soft-rockers.

Folk-adjacent indie rock pioneers Lord Huron have made a name for themselves conjuring the mysticism of the American wilderness with eerie, echoing acoustic guitars, haunting vocal harmonies and philosophical lyrics. Don't mist their wistful melodies and reverb-laden Americana-tinged anthems as they hit the road on their latest tour!