Julian Taylor announces 2025 UK and Ireland tour

Toronto singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has announced a tour of the UK and Ireland for early 2025.

The tour is set to kick off on January 16 in Killarney’s Your Roots Are Showing, followed by stops in Cork’s Levis’ Corner House (January 17), Banteer’s Glen Theatre, where he will be support Ashley Campbell and Thor Jensen (January 18), and Wexford’s Colfers Pub (January 19).

Taylor will then head to the UK for eight dates in London, Sheffield, Glasgow and more, before wrapping up in Dumfries on February 1.

The tour follows the release of Taylor’s latest record Pathways, which features the title track released in collaboration with Grammy winner Allison Russell, nominated for the UK Americana Music Awards International Song of the Year category. The musician describes the record as speaking to finding “righteousness, acceptance, and enlightenment.”

Taylor his breakthrough year in 2020 with his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earning more than five million plays on Spotify, winning the musician Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and nominations for two Juno Awards, the Polaris Prize Long List, a Summer Solstice Indigenous Award, a Canadian Music Week INDIES Award, and an additional Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination in the English Songwriter of the Year category.

In following years, Taylor won best male artist in the International Acoustic Music Awards and scored five Native American Music Award nominations, followed by a nomination in the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards in the Roots Artist of the Year category, and a further nomination for a Juno Award in the Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year category.

Tickets for Julian Taylor’s 2025 tour are available now here.

Find the full list of dates below:

January 16 - Your Roots Are Showing, Killarney, IE
January 17 - Levis' Corner House, Cork, IE
January 18 - Glen Theatre, Banteer, IE*
January 19 - Colfers Pub, Wexford, IE
January 21 - Americana Music Week, London, UK
January 24 - Secret Venue, Leicestershire, UK (address provided upon purchase)
January 25 - Cafe 9, Sheffield, UK
January 26 - The Musician Pub, Leicester, UK
January 27 - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham, UK
January 29 - Celtic Connections, Glasgow, UK
January 30 - Gullivers NQ, Manchester, UK
February 1 - Theatre Royal, Dumfries, UK