Shovels & Rope

WHEELS OF SOUL TOUR 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT! Thrilled to be joining this annual traveling glorious music explosion next summer with the mighty Tedeschi Trucks Band and Blackberry Smoke! All ticket info and the full list of dates is on the tour page here and on the website. Most tickets go on sale this friday at 10AM EST. We've got an insane amount of things in store for next year...we're just getting started... - El Jefe 6/28/19 Jacksonville, FL 6/29/19 Boca Raton, FL 6/30/19 St. Petersburg, FL 7/03/19 Orange Beach, AL 7/05/19 Charleston, SC 7/06/19 Simpsonville, SC 7/07/19 Charlotte, NC 7/09/19 Raleigh, NC 7/13/19 Gilford, NH 7/14/19 Saratoga Springs, NY 7/16/19 Canandaigua, NY 7/19/19 Cincinnati, OH 7/20/19 Huber Heights, OH 7/23/19 Rochester Hills, MI 7/24/19 Indianapolis, IN 7/26/19 Morrison, CO 7/27/19 Morrison, CO 7/30/19 St. Louis, MO 7/31/19 Brandon, MS 8/02/19 Atlanta, GA 8/03/19 Atlanta, GA

Virginia! We're comin' in hot next May!

HIGH WATER 2019 ON SALE NOW! High Water Festival is officially on sale as of....NOW! We've been blessed to sellout in our first two years so get em quick if you know you'd like to join us. Thank you to everyone who helps us make this weekend possible. All ticket info and purchase links can be found here. Go give em hell. https://highwaterfest.com/tickets/ - El Jefe

Michael and Cary Ann had a little chat with the lovely humans over at Garden & Gun Magazine about High Water Festival. Go forth and read, and don't forget...HW 2019 goes on sale TOMORROW at 10AM EST! - El Jefe

Well...hold on to your butts...After months of planning and plotting, we are very pleased to reveal our High Water Festival lineup for 2019! Like previous years, we've cooked up a musical stew of some of our absolute favorite live bands, some dear friends, and selfishly some artists we love that don't always tour through Charleston, in hopes that yall might love em as much as we do. In short, it's a festival that WE would love to go to...so we do genuinely hope that yall feel the same. Tickets go on sale THIS THURSDAY at 10AM EST, check the festival page for full details on everything. We appreciate you, Charleston. Follow Your HW Fest 2019 Dreams. http://on.highwaterfest.com/trk/Jjd - El Jefe Leon BridgesThe Head and The HeartLord HuronMitskiJenny LewisDr#dogPhosphorescentJ Roddy Walston and The BusinessThe War and TreatyDurand Jones & The IndicationsButch WalkerBlitzen TrapperRanky TankyHayes CarllThe Secret SistersLera LynnLilly HiattThelma and the SleazeMichael Nau

HIGH WATER PRESALE NOW! Here we go....if you've joined us for High Water Festival before, and you know you wanna be there next year, we thought we'd give yall a chance to lock down some early tickets while we finish crossing the T's and dotting the I's on the 2019 linuep! Previous buyers should have an email with info on how to go pick up some tickets, go look at your electronic screen messages for all of the info! - El Jefe

Charleston, you made us feel loved af this weekend, THANK YOU!! Before we retreat to the depths of Johns Island to make a record, the High Water Festival 2019 excitement begins NOW. We’ve been working so hard to make this years fest the best yet, and the lineup y’all...hold on to your butts. It’s GOOD. Head to the fest site for All the info and keep watching the socials. We’ll keep letting you know what’s happening. @highwaterfest will be the very first show after this past weekend for us, and that feels as it should be. We love you charleston, let’s get into it! - El Jefe

SWIMMIN' TIME LAGER! A few months ago the good people over at Commonhouse Aleworks asked us if we would be up for collaborating on a beer as a way to raise money for charity in North Charleston. We were honored to be asked. We love North Charleston. And beer is good. So here it is, “Swimmin’ Time Lager”, available starting Oct 26th at Commonhouse Aleworks in Park Circle. Sales of the beer will support the wonderful humans running Metanoia, a non profit dedicated to helping build up the established and growing communities in N CHS. So get some beer, and do a little good at the same time. - MT & CA Glorious can design by the one and only Gil Shuler!

Charleston Pour House 10/28 - Tickets On Sale Now! Link Below! - Jefe

HEY EVERYBODY! We just wrapped up our road doggin’ for the year and we gotta say, its been a damn good run. We are looking forward to hanging out in Charleston, catching up with good friends, and finishing up a new record that we hope you will all enjoy. We are excited to play a rock n roll show in our home town at The Royal American (out door stage) on Oct 27th. It sold out quick, so we figured why not make it a homecoming weekend and throw a little rock show at the venue that raised us from greasy baby rug-rats. We are making the long trek down the road to 1977 Maybank Hwy to bring it home to Charleston Pour House for a one night stand! Come hear some of these new tunes as well as some of your old favorites and see whats left of Shovels & Rope before we hang it up till 2019. - CA & MT Photo Credit: Todd Cooper --------- Tickets go on sale this Friday 10/12 at 12 Noon EST. Link below!

COLUMBIA! We are gassing up the van for a quick hop, skip, and jump to come and play for yall at The Senate Columbia. We can't wait to hang with our neighbors up the "street." Come on Columbia, lets dance. Ticket link below! - Jefe https://www.ticketweb.com/event/shovels-rope-the-senate-tickets/8617205?pl=tinroofAEG

CHS! Our friends at @theroyalamerican are telling us tickets likely won’t last before the end of the day, so if you’re hoping to come hang Oct 27th, this is likely last call! - Jefe

CHARLESTON. HALLOWEEN WEEKEND. ON SALE NOW. The Royal American Come get some, Charleston. We’ll see you Oct 27th. - Jefe https://www.citypapertickets.com/events/57419594/shovels-amp-rope

Pickathon, we love you. Always a pleasure to be a part of what makes you so unique and beautiful. Thank you! - Jefe

ATTN CHARLESTON: HI. WE MISS YOU. It has become painfully obvious to us that we haven’t played a club show in our hometown in quite some time so here’s what we’re gonna do about it. On 10/27 (Halloween weekend) we’re going to do a show at The Royal American (outside stage) and would love to see you all there (costumed or non costumed). -MT & CAH -------------- Ok folks, let's get weird together this October! This is gonna be all kinds of fun. Tickets go on sale this Friday Aug 10th at 10 AM EST. Per usual, check the website for ticket link info or hit the link below. Come get some... And Follow Your Royal American Dreams. https://www.citypapertickets.com/events/57419594/shovels-amp-rope -Jefe Photo: Curtis Wayne Millard

This is Cary Ann! Im highjacking the ShoRo Facespace to tell you that my fun country band, Marshgrass Mamas, have a performance at the Charleston Music Hall this July 13th. Its me and my homegirls from Johns and Wadmalaw Island. Since me and Mike are always on the road, its a super rare treat for me to get to play a gig with the Mamas, so I'm real excited. check out Charleston Music Hall or click below for ticket link. We will be playing about 75 minutes of old timey fiddle tunes, not very fast marsh grass music (the opposite of blue grass music, actually) and crazy swampy versions of songs that are not blue nor grass of any kind. Another fun fact, The Mamas got some dope tee shirts and posters for you to secure to you can support the lazy efforts of some of charlestons most charming and least ambitious women. Fiddles? We got em. Banjos, we got one. We got at least 5 singers. its shit hot. See y'all at the Hall. byeeeeee

PREDECESSORS PRE-ORDER NOW! Surprise! A message from Michael and Cary Ann: It’s been about 10 years since we started playing music together. We made the side project record that became known as 'Shovels & Rope' back in 2008. Both 'The Winner' and 'Lions and Lambs', presented to you here now, were both released in 2010. It wasn’t until 2012 that 'O’Be Joyful' would qualify Shovels & Rope as a working band with a synonymous catalogue. That’s a lot of music and a whole history that predicates our work together as it is understood today. We were living and working together, pursuing endeavors separately from each other, having no idea at the time that work, fate, and luck would steer us towards a destiny that is our life as Shovels & Rope. These were the albums that we made right as we stepped onto a new string in the universe. We had a long conversation on the way to a rock show that changed our lives. We didn’t exactly shelve these two records... we worked them on the road as a three-fer special along with the original Shovels & Rope record and somehow convinced people to leap into a 25 dollar 30 song catalog of music in a time when music was moving into the Wild West of streaming media we know today. How lucky can you get? As a bonus, we’ve included some of our very first home recordings, made on a dinosaur Macintosh laptop in a small apartment we used to share on Pitt street in downtown Charleston. They are rough and kind of precious to us...like a wrinkly old photo. Enjoy! - MT & CAH ---------------- You can head to our site and pre-order Predecessors today! Vinyl ships in July! Follow Your Historical Shovels & Rope Dreams - Jefe http://shovelsandrope.com/

CHARLESTON...the rock gods are smiling down upon you this weekend...JD McPherson last night and our other brother from another mother Matthew Logan Vasquez plays TONIGHT at The Royal American. Matt is a force to be reckoned with, come get your head knocked around with us tonight! For shame if you missed last night and don't see the show tonight...- El Jefe

ATTENTION CHARLESTON! Our brother from another mother, JD McPherson is playing at Charleston Pour House tomorrow night! Whatever you think you’re doing tomorrow night, cancel it right now and get tickets to this rock show. Just do it. You can thank us later. He’s a hero, a torch bearer for all that is good about rock n roll in the 21 st century! Just get there! - el jefe

Shows all weekend in the Carolinas! Tonight at House of Blues Myrtle Beach, tomorrow at Moo and Brew Fest in Charlotte, and Sunday at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro. Come on out!

SUPPORTING JOHN PRINE OCT 6 / RYMAN AUDITORIUM With great pleasure we can announce that we will be supporting one of our heroes, John Prine, at the Mother Church on Oct 6th. This is an honor to say the least, someone’s gonna have to pinch us all kinds of hard to know it’s real. See you there! - Jefe

Big news time... we'll be back at Pickathon this year!

Well we have a pretty busy month coming up... We're psyched for High Water Festival in our hometown of Charleston, but we know it's sold out and some of y'all can't get tickets. If you live in the area and want to see us in April, come to Charlotte for the Moo and Brew Fest! It supports the Second Harvest Food Bank and it's gonna be a good time.

SECOND UPDATE: It's sold out!! Good work, y'all. UPDATE: 2-day passes went like hotcakes. Single day passes will be released on Friday! What a dream... a festival in wine country with so many friends! Tickets just went on sale for the Sonoma Harvest Music Festival, go get 'em!

GREAT, AMERICA (2017) ON SPOTIFY & iTUNES! Behold! For your listening convenience and pleasure, you can now listen to 'Great, America (2017)' on the streaming internets! Check out the tune on Spotify and iTunes, and share it with your friends, family, cats, dogs, and pet lizards. It's meant for everyone! - El Jefe