49 Winchester have announced their first ever European live dates as direct support for Luke Combs‘ 2023 World Tour. Kicking off on September 30 in Oslo, Norway, the 14 date trek will conclude with a 2-Night Stand at London’s O2 Arena. 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson said, “Luke is someone whose music and approach we’ve admired for years. We are beyond grateful and excited to hit the road with him in Europe this fall, and take the 49 show worldwide on the biggest stages of our career. See ya’ll out there!”
49 Winchester have been on the road for the past year in support of their critically acclaimed New West Records debut Fortune Favors the Bold. The new album has quickly generated over 40 million global streams and over 17 million global streams for the single ‘Russell County Line‘. The band has also been selected as a Spotify “Hot Country Artist to Watch in 2023” and an Apple Music “Country Riser in 2022.” Fortune Favors the Bold debuted at #7 on the Billboard Top New Artist Chart, #7 on the Billboard Current Country Chart, and #10 on the Billboard Folk Americana Chart as well.
Met with critical acclaim, Rolling Stone called them “Country Music’s Buzziest of Buzz Bands,” and also named the album one of the “25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2022.” Bandcamp named Fortune Favors the Bold one of the “Best Country Records of 2022,” as did No Depression, Holler, PopMatters, Whiskey Riff, WMOT, and more.
49 Winchester have steadily become a must-see live act. Prior to their European tour supporting Luke Combs, the band will make their London debut at the C2C: Country to Country Music Festival (March 10-12) alongside Zac Brown Band, Midland, and more. They will return to the historic Grand Ole Opry stage for their second appearance & make their StageCoach debut in April. In September, the band will also return to the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, where they have solidified themselves as a fan favorite every year. Please see all dates below.
Formed on Winchester Street in the small mountain town of Castlewood, Virginia (population: 2,045), 49 Winchester started as a group of neighborhood teenage friends set on a calculated DIY path. In 2014 they independently released their eponymous debut, followed by 2018’s The Wind, and 2020’s celebrated III. Reflecting on his early days as a jack-of-all-trades stone mason, where it was about trying to make ends meet in an effort to keep the band rolling along, frontman Gibson can’t help but be grateful for a well-earned notion at the core of the band’s ethos — anything worthwhile in life is built brick-by-brick. “Everything has to be built. And very few people are going to achieve success overnight,” says Gibson. “We didn’t start out as a bunch of hot shot pickers out of Nashville. We started out on the ground floor — very basic songwriting and instrumentation. But we kept working at it, always progressing in what we wanted to do and how we wanted to sound — each song better than the previous one, the show this evening better than last night.”
49 Winchester’s Fortune Favors The Bold is available NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.
49 Winchester On Tour:
March 10-12 – London UK – C2C Music Festival, O2 Arena
March 17 – Anderson SC – Wendells Dippin Branch
March 18 – Columbia SC – St. Pat’s in Five Points
March 31 – Bristol TN – Paramount Center for the Arts *Night 1
April 1 – Bristol TN – Paramount Center for the Arts *Night 2
April 5 – Oxford OH – Brick Street
April 6 – Columbus OH – A&R Music Bar
April 7 – Pittsburgh PA – Thunderbird Cafe
April 14 – Mccaysville GA – TOONEYS Music Venue
April 15 – Helena AL – Helena Amphitheater
April 18 – Nashville TN – Grand Ole Opry
April 20 – Oklahoma City OK – Beer City Music Hall
April 22 – Fort Worth TX – Tulips FTW
April 25 – Tucson AZ – Rialto Theatre
April 27 – Phoenix AZ – Valley Bar
April 28 – Flagstaff AZ – The Museum Club
April 30 – Indio CA – Stagecoach Festival
May 2 – Santa Fe NM – Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery
May 4 – Denver CO – Bluebird Theater
May 5 – Hays KS – Fox Theatre
May 6 – Kansas City MO – Knuckleheads
May 12-13 – Huntersville NC – North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival
May 19 – Winchester VA – Katie’s House Country Music Festival
May 21 – Richmond VA – Dominion Riverrock Festival
May 27 – Worcester MA – Country Carnival Music Festival
June 1 – Decatur IL – Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater
June 3 – Chattanooga TN – Riverbend Festival
June 4 – Lexington KY – Railbird Music Festival
June 9-10 – Pineville KY – Laurel Cove Music Festival
June 16 – Wise VA – VA-KY District Fair
June 23 – New Martinsville WV – Back Home Festival
June 24 – Hamilton OH – Whimmydiddle Festival
July 14-16 – Whitefish MT – Under the Big Sky Festival
July 21 – Yerington NV – Night in The Country
July 28-29 – Fort Smith AR – Peacemaker Festival
August 3 – Huber Heights OH – Rose Music Center at the Heights
August 4 – Cincinnati OH – PNC Pavilion
August 5 – Charlottesville VA – Ting Pavilion
September 8-10 – Bristol TN – Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
September 30 – Oslo NO – Spektrum #
October 1 – Stockholm SE – Avicii Arena #
October 4 – Copenhagen DK – VEGA Forum #
October 6 – Hamburg DE – Barclays Arena #
October 7 – Amsterdam NL – AFAS Live #
October 8 – Paris FR – La Cigale #
October 10 – Zurich CH – The Hall #
October 11 – Brussels BE – Ancienne Belgique #
October 13 – Dublin IE – 3 Arena #
October 14 – Belfast UK – SSE Arena #
October 16 – Glasgow UK – OVO Hydro Arena #
October 17 – Manchester UK – AO Arena #
October 19 – London UK – O2 Arena *Night 1 #
October 20 – London UK – O2 Arena *Night 2 #
# supporting Luke Combs
49winchester.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
