Josh Ritter Plays Prospect Park Bandshell Tonight

Josh Ritter will be performing songs off his latest album, Sermon On The Rocks, at Prospect Park Bandshell (Celebrate Brooklyn) tonight, July 8th.

Additional dates with Jason Isbell extend Ritter's ongoing North American tour with The Royal City band, continuing this May with stops at Celebrate Brooklyn, New Orleans' Civic Theatre, Birmingham's Saturn, Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and more. This extensive run of tour dates supports Ritter's acclaimed new album, Sermon On The Rocks (Pytheas Recordings/Thirty Tigers).

Sermon On The Rocks continues to receive widespread critical praise, with his song "Getting Ready To Get Down" being featured as one of NPR Music's "Best Songs of 2015," and The New York Times raving, "The literary-minded songwriter Josh Ritter...recharges his music on his eighth studio album, Sermon on the Rocks...Harking back to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and maybe a little Mark Knopfler, Mr. Ritter has always been a slinger of serious ideas and high-flown imagery."

Watch his recent performances on "CBS This Morning - Saturday": "Homecoming"; "Getting Ready To Get Down"; and "To The Dogs Or Whoever."

Produced by Ritter and Trina Shoemaker (Queens of the Stone Age, Emmylou Harris), Sermon on the Rocks was recorded over two weeks at New Orleans' The Parlor Recording Studio and features Matt Barrick from The Walkmen on drums, Zachariah Hickman on bass, Josh Kaufman on guitar and Sam Kassirer on piano.

Of his inspiration behind Sermon on the Rocks, Ritter comments, "I wanted to play messianic oracular honky-tonk."

Over the course of his acclaimed career, Ritter has released seven full-length albums, including his most recent, 2013's The Beast In Its Tracks, which debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the Top Rock Albums chart.

Additionally, in 2011, Ritter made is debut as a published author with his New York Times best-selling novel, Bright's Passage (Dial Press/Random House).

Josh Ritter AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND 2016 TOUR:
*appearing with Elephant Revival
**appearing with JJ Grey and Mofro
***supporting Jason Isbell

June 23 /// Edmonton, AB /// Canada-McDougall United Church
June 24 /// Calgary, AB /// Canada-Knox United Church
July 8 /// Brooklyn, NY /// Celebrate Brooklyn
July 9 /// Somerset, KY /// Master Musicians Festival
July 11 /// Omaha, NE /// Slowdown
July 12 /// Boulder, CO /// Boulder Theater
July 13 /// Aspen, CO /// Belly Up
July 14 /// Salt Lake City, UT /// Red Butte Garden**
July 15 /// Boise, ID /// Idaho Botanical Garden**
July 16 /// Missiula, MT /// The Wilma**
July 17 /// Alta, WY /// Targhee Fest
July 20 /// Buffalo, NY /// Tralf Music Hall
July 21 /// York, PA /// Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
July 22 /// Albany, NY /// The Egg Performing Arts Center
July 23 /// Camden, NJ /// XPoNential Music Festival
July 24 /// Pittsburg, PA /// Hartwood Acres Park
August 10 /// Portsmouth, NH /// Prescott Park Arts Festival
August 28 /// Florence, MA /// Look Memorial Park
September 24 /// Atlanta, GA /// Fox Theater (w/ Jason Isbell)
September 25 /// Cincinnati, OH /// MidPoint Music Festival
September 29 /// Louisville, KY /// Louisville Palace***
October 8 /// New Haven, CT /// College Street Music Hall***
October 2 /// Des Moines, IA /// Hoyt Sherman Place***
October 3 /// Grand Rapids, MI /// DeVos Performance Hall**
October 5 /// Hershey, PA /// Hershey Theatre***
October 6 /// Syracuse, NY /// Landmark Theatre***
October 11 /// Burlington, VT /// Flynn Theatre***
October 13 /// Concord, NH /// Capitol Center For The Arts
October 14 /// Red Bank, NJ /// Count Basie Theatre***
October 15 /// Greensboro, NC /// White Oak Amphitheatre***
October 16 /// Columbia, SC /// Township Auditorium***
October 18 /// Fort Myers, FL /// Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center***
October 19 /// Clearwater, FL /// Ruth Eckerd Hall***
October 21 /// Mobile, AL /// Saenger Theatre***

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