Bright Eyes Outlines Fall 2026 Tour Dates

Bright Eyes announced Fall 2026 U.S. tour dates in October. The newly reunited Lullaby for the Working Class will serve as support for all dates.

Lullaby for the Working Class features Bright Eyes members Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, who will each perform with both bands. The tour launches October 3 at First Avenue in Minneapolis and wraps October 18 at The Sovereign in St. Louis, with stops in Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Asheville (North Carolina), Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Austin, Dallas and Kansas City along the way.

Tickets for all 13 shows go on sale Friday, June 26 at 10 a.m. local time.

Mike Mogis said the following regarding the return of Lullaby for the Working Class:

“Lullaby for the Working Class was the band I was in before Bright Eyes (1994–1999). Ted Stevens (Cursive, Mayday) and I started the band as an experiment to try and make more folk-based music with all-acoustic instruments. Up until that point, we had only really played in loud punk and rock bands, so it was an entirely new approach and a new world for us.

“I learned so much from my time with Ted and Lullaby, both as a musician and an engineer/producer, that I would go on to employ heavily when I started working with this weird little kid named Conor, who Ted was friends with. We also took Conor on some of the earliest Bright Eyes tours, opening for Lullaby with us acting as his backing band.

“When we started recording and needed some trumpet on our first records, the Consolation EP and Blanket Warm, I heard about this high school kid, Nate Walcott, and got his number from a mutual friend. He ended up playing on all our records and going on some tours with us.

“I have great memories of us all piled into our old Chevy Transvan, driving around the country and playing anywhere that would have us. We also went on a really long tour of Europe in the fall of 1997, and that was the first time any of us had been there. Back then, everything was strange, new, and exciting.

“Lullaby ran its course, and I went on to play in Bright Eyes full-time (along with Nate, eventually), while Ted joined Cursive and continued making his own records in Mayday and other projects.

“We reunited once in 2010 when Conor organized the Concert for Equality in Omaha to fight against a racist, anti-immigration law that had passed in Nebraska. That is the only time we played this century!

“So I am extremely excited to tell you guys that we are going on tour again. The tables have turned, so we will be opening for Bright Eyes, but we will still all be playing together for both sets, just like the old days.

“I am really looking forward to it, and I hope some of you can make it out and join us at one of the shows.”