The Dead South at The Fillmore

USA Summer Tour 2025

Months before their flight to Australia and New Zealand in late 2025, The Dead South plots the feet-sweeping conclusion to their “USA Summer” Tour. And it’s all going down at the Big Easy. Catch Canada’s most prolific bluegrass group — featuring Nathaniel Hilts, Scott Pringle, Colton "Crawdaddy" Crawford, and Danny Kenyon at The Fillmore New Orleans this 31st day of August. Official announcements of the 15-city tour dropped during the end of a sold-out EU/UK series last spring, headlining the band’s fourth studio album, Chains & Stakes (2024).

The Dead South dubbed themselves the dark, violent “evil twins” of British folk-rock legends Mumford and Sons. Punk-drunk bluegrass. They cover the usual suspects:  “Loving, cheating, killing, and drinking.” Through four studio records spaced across a decade, they bring the Old Western ways back in three-part string harmony, just for you. On Sunday, this Canadian quartet will slam NOLA with the reckoning of their multi-award-winning shelf, originating with 2014’s riotously worshipped Good Company. The debut effort charted the Dead South’s two flagship hits: “In Hell, I'll Be In Good Company” and the bitingly satirical “Banjo Odyssey.”

Within five years from their first, they released the follow-up albums Illusion & Doubt (2016) and Sugar & Joy (2019), which earned back-to-back Junos for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. Pulling from this period, the Dead South will play you the untamed melodies of “Black Lung” and “Broken Cowboy,” with hit singles “Delirium,” “Miss Marry,” “Boots,” and “Diamond Ring.” We jump into covers of “You Are My Sunshine” and “People Are Strange” as they enter the 2020s, finally landing onto last year’s Chains & Stakes, their second Billboard Bluegrass number-one. “Tiny Wooden Box.” “A Little Devil.” “Yours to Keep.” If you’ve been tapping your toes to these moody little tales, you’ve found the perfect weekend getaway for summer near the gorgeous, lackadaisical Mississippi.

The Dead South cornered a uniquely transporting region of unconventional bluegrass (or “alternative Americana,” as some would say). Our host seeks to capture their acoustic aesthetic down to the lick. Emphasizing precision and immersive accuracy, The Fillmore in New Orleans presents these folk music pioneers on a well-built stage inspired by the city’s stylish identity and the psychedelic 1960s. Score tickets now through the above link!