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Old Crow Medicine Show brings back Holiday Hootenanny tour

The string band's second annual festive run kicks off December 7 with stops across the Northeast.

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Old Crow Medicine Show onstage in warm light, a player in a straw hat working a resonator guitar in front, a fiddler and an upright bass behind, mason-jar lights hanging overhead.
Old Crow Medicine Show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., on August 2, 2012. Photo: ChunkyGlasses, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Old Crow Medicine Show has announced the return of its Holiday Hootenanny Tour for a second year, running December 7 through 13 across the Northeast.

The string band opens the run December 7 at Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut, before continuing through New England with stops in Portland, Maine on December 8, Lebanon, New Hampshire on December 10, and Beverly, Massachusetts on December 11. The tour wraps with two Pennsylvania dates, in Glenside on December 12 and Williamsport on December 13.

The tour follows the band's 2025 release OCMS XMAS, its first full-length Christmas album, featuring original songs written for the season alongside new takes on holiday classics. Old Crow Medicine Show worked material from the record into setlists for the inaugural Holiday Hootenanny Tour last December, and this year's run gives those songs a second outing in front of Northeast audiences.

The seasonal tour arrives in a busy year for the band, which spent the summer extending its Union Made Tour into the fall and joining Darius Rucker for a rendition of "Wagon Wheel," the country and Americana staple the group co-wrote nearly two decades ago, at Red Rocks. It joins a run of country tour news this year, following Wynonna Judd's Hard Truth Tour opener and Ashley Cooke's acoustic pop-up run.

Pre-sale tickets for the Holiday Hootenanny Tour are on sale now using the code HOLIDAY, with general on-sale beginning Friday, August 28 at 10am ET; the full run is listed alongside other winter dates in the tour guide.

The facts

  • Second annual Holiday Hootenanny Tour runs December 7-13
  • Opens at Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut
  • Wraps with Pennsylvania dates in Glenside and Williamsport
  • Follows 2025 Christmas album OCMS XMAS
  • General on-sale begins Friday, August 28

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