Midnight North Announces Summer Tour 2022 & New Live Album

Midnight North confirmed details of their 2022 Summer Tour dates. The Americana act, who will release a live album entitled Selections From Levon Helm Studios on May 20 via Americana Vibes, will hit the road for concerts this June, July and August.

Co-founding Midnight North member Grahame Lesh will do double duty on June 4 when the band opens the trek by supporting Phil Lesh & Friends at Frost Amphitheater in Palo Alto, California. Grahame is part of his father, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh‘s band, at the Frost along with guitarists Scott Metzger and John Scofield, keyboardist Benmont Tench and drummer Joe Russo. Midnight North then plays the Redwood Mountain Faire in Felton, California on June 5.

After a few weeks off, Midnight North returns to the road to kick off the next leg of the tour in Nashville on June 23. Dates follow in Atlanta (June 24); Asheville, North Carolina (June 25) and Charleston, South Carolina (June 26) ahead of the band’s appearance at The Peach Music Festival on June 30.

July starts for the group in Canandaigua, New York on the 1st. Additional July performances come in Baltimore (July 6); Albany, New York (July 7); Marshfield, Massachusetts (July 9); Freehold, New Jersey (July 28) and Townshend, Delaware (July 30). Midnight North then breaks up a month-long break with a set at the Days Between Festival in Laytonville, California on August 7 before ending the month with a rare trip to the Midwest for gigs in Madison, Wisconsin (August 25); Bridgeview, Illinois (August 26); Buchanan, Michigan (August 27) and Columbus, Ohio (August 28).

Tickets for all dates are on sale now. Check out the band’s full itinerary below along with Selections From Levon Helm Studios details and its lead single:

Selections From Levon Helm Studios documents Midnight North’s November 9, 2019 concert at the famed Woodstock, New York venue. “It is still one of our favorite shows we’ve ever played and a pristine recording that we’ve been holding on to ever since in order to find the right time to release this music,” explained Grahame Lesh.

Read more from Grahame Lesh regarding the upcoming live album:

“It was a night filled with special moments. We had our dear friend Jason Crosby with us on keyboards for the whole show, plus we co-headlined with the Cris Jacobs Band and had all of those amazing musicians join us. We also debuted Elliott’s classic song ‘Coyote’ around one microphone, and we felt like Levon & our Woodstock family were with us the entire time. This album captures the magic of that night, and we are so excited to share it with you all.”

Stream the album’s first single, a cover of Gram Parsons’ “Luxury Liner”:

Selections From Levon Helm Studios Tracklist

1. Earthquakes
2. Good For You I Guess
3. Wind and Roses
4. If It Takes A Lifetime (Jason Isbell)
5. Everyday
6. Luxury Liner (Gram Parsons)
7. Coyote
8. Playing a Poor Hand Well
9. Under the Lights
10. Don’t Do It (The Band)