WATCHHOUSE RITUALS TOUR 2025
Americana/Bluegrass/Country/Newgrass
Opener: Evan Honer
Doors: 5pm / Show: 7pm
Tickets: $49.58 - $69.56 (inclusive of all fees/sales tax added at checkout; $1.00 Sweet Relief Artist's Charity Fee Added To Each Ticket)
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Watchhouse, the North Carolina based duo of Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz, have announced a new studio album Rituals, due out May 30, 2025 via Tiptoe Tiger Music / Thirty Tigers. The collection marks the band’s first release of all new, original songs since their 2021 self-titled album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and earned praise from Rolling Stone (“pristine acoustic picking collides with hazy, dream-like psychedelia”) Mojo, NPR Music, American Songwriter and more.
Rituals, co-produced with Ryan Gustafson (The Dead Tongues), explores the boundaries between identity and awareness, and how we often confuse patterns with truths. The 11-song collection muses on the endless nature of evolution, asking questions like: how can we have a positive relationship with change? How can we meet our ends gracefully? “Is the world on fire or at home in the sun?”
“All Around You,” the first track released from the album, features layered guitars, a steady beat and floating vocal harmonies. The song wrestles with how we often view home as a destination, just as we look back longing for the past. It ultimately arrives at an understanding that wherever we are, we are already home, emphasizing that trusting in our own awareness allows us to face the future with the wisdom we’ve acquired.
Starting over a decade ago playing coffee shops and local restaurants around North Carolina, Watchhouse is a grassroots success story that’s been driven by Marlin’s poignant songwriting. With sold-out shows at legendary venues like Red Rocks and the Ryman Auditorium, and hundreds of millions of streams, they’ve earned a reputation for creating music that “redefines roots music for a younger generation” (Washington Post). The duo - now with a family of their own - are two singers and musicians with profound chemistry, performing earnest yet masterfully crafted songs that encompass the unknowable mysteries, existential heartbreak, and communal joys of modern life. The forthcoming album is no exception.
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Evan Honer was still a college student in Southern California when his music — a mix of acoustic folk, indie-Americana, and alternative pop, delivered by a young songwriter who's never been afraid to blur the boundaries between genres — began earning a global audience. It happened fast. One minute, he was uploading performance videos to social media with little response. The next, he was a viral success, earning 100 million streams with his version of the Tyler Childers deep cut "Jersey Giant" and building a following with his original music, too. On graduation day, Honer released West On I-10, a debut album that quickly led to viral success as well as months of sold-out headline shows across America and Europe.
For his sophomore album Fighting For, Honer decided to keep things simple. Turning down seven-figure offers from virtually every major label & grammy award winning producers, Fighting For was recorded by close friends in small studios, churches, Air Bnb's and living rooms and is being released by Evan's own independent label Cloverdale Records. With 500 million streams and counting and carving a new path in the music industry as a 100% independent artist, this is still just the beginning of Evan's journey.
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