Article Contributed by Calabro Music Media
Published on 2026-08-05
Oliver Wood, acclaimed frontman and founding member of The Wood Brothers, has announced five solo shows across the Northeast this September.
The run begins September 25 at Hollerhorn Distilling in Naples, New York, before continuing through Saratoga Springs, Arundel, Exeter, and Northampton. Ric Robertson will provide direct support at all five shows.
Tickets go on sale Friday, August 7, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
Before the Northeast run, Wood will appear September 12 at the Grassroots & Nudie Suits Festival at Harken Hall in Nashville on a bill featuring Lola Kirke and Carlene Carter.
Fresh off The Wood Brothers’ extensive summer tour, Wood will turn his attention to material from his two solo albums, 2021’s Always Smilin’ and 2024’s Fat Cat Silhouette, along with select renditions of songs that reflect his love of mid-20th-century country blues.
In the solo setting, Wood will also revisit material from King Johnson, his former Atlanta-based band that became a cult favorite on the Southern music circuit during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Wood recently released the self-titled debut album from Slow Accordion, a band he formed with three Nashville musicians and longtime friends: multi-instrumentalist Matt Glassmeyer, bassist Ted Pecchio, and drummer Mark Raudabaugh.
The project shifts Wood’s focus toward pure guitar improvisation and reveals a different side of his musical range, one more closely aligned with the exploratory work of his brother Chris Wood in Medeski Martin & Wood.
No Depression praised the album as “an intoxicating, purely improvised conversation between four seasoned players operating on pure instinct.”
The record was captured live in a circle directly to four-track reel-to-reel tape, preserving the spontaneous interaction among the musicians.
September 12 – Nashville, TN – Harken Hall
September 25 – Naples, NY – Hollerhorn Distilling
September 26 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Putnam Place
September 28 – Arundel, ME – Vinegar Hill Music Theatre
September 29 – Exeter, NH – The Word Barn, two shows
September 30 – Northampton, MA – The Iron Horse
Ric Robertson will provide direct support for the September 25–30 Northeast dates.
