Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy has announced an intimate run of North American shows for this fall. A Promised Return Tour will bring him to Canada for a pair of performances in Vancouver and Toronto in October.
"It's a lyric I wrote in a song recently, and in this context I love it because I feel so excited to return to you guys and see you again, but this is also a return to a feeling," Kennedy wrote of the tour in an Instagram post. "These are the kind of shows I dreamed of before I had a career. Just me and my lyrics, playing in quiet theatres, all of us getting what we need from the words. In the last 10 years, I still haven't come across a feeling better than that."
The trek kicks off on Canadian turf with a gig on October 7 at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre. From there, the artist will make his way across the US, revisiting Canada within a couple weeks to play Toronto's History on October 23. The tour wraps up stateside on October 28 in Silver Spring, MD.
Tickets go on general sale next Friday (May 23), with presales beginning May 21 at 10 a.m. local time. Check out the full schedule of dates below, in addition to finding more upcoming shows through Exclaim!'s Canadian concert listings.
Dermot Kennedy 2025 Tour Dates:
10/07 Vancouver, BC - Orpheum Theatre
10/10 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
10/11 Los Angeles, CA - Orpheum Theatre
10/14 Denver, CO - Summit
10/16 Dallas, TX - Majestic Theatre
10/18 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
10/19 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
10/21 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
10/23 Toronto, ON - History
10/25 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
10/27 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
10/28 Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore