Robert Plant will take Saving Grace and Suzi Dian on the Root & Branch tour next summer, with headline shows at Lincoln Castle, Scarborough Open Air Theatre and The Piece Hall, Halifax, plus a Dublin date. The run opens with the Hampton Court Palace Festival date on Saturday 19 June, then moves on across the UK and Ireland.
Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 6 November via Ticketmaster.
Award-winning folk artists Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman join as special guests at Lincoln, Scarborough and Halifax. They are not listed for Hampton Court or Dublin.
Robert Plant and Saving Grace, Root & Branch tour 2027
- Saturday 19 June: Hampton Court Palace Festival, London
- Thursday 24 June: Lincoln Castle, Lincoln (with Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman)
- Saturday 26 June: Scarborough Open Air Theatre (with Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman)
- Sunday 27 June: The Piece Hall, Halifax (with Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman)
- Tuesday 29 June: Trinity College Summer Series, Dublin
The dates follow last month’s EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters, now out digitally on Nonesuch after a Record Store Day vinyl release, and a recent run of US shows. The four tracks continue the folk and Americana thread of Plant’s 2025 album Saving Grace: traditional songs The Blackest Crow and Two Coats, Gillian Welch’s Orphan Girl, and Bert Jansch’s Poison. Both records feature Suzi Dian and musicians from the English countryside Plant calls home.
Saving Grace began at Plant’s home on the Welsh borders in 2019. The group, vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown, had been playing together for barely a year, including a low-key support slot with Fairport Convention, when the pandemic paused formal plans. Once restrictions allowed, they recorded informally in a barn or outdoors, then booked small venues without fanfare. The line-up is built around blues, folk, gospel, country and the ground between them. Earlier this year Plant received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Music Association Awards.
Kate Rusby is billed as one of England’s finest folk singers, known for traditional songs and her own writing, a run of BBC Radio 2 awards, and music used in television and film. Seth Lakeman broke into the mainstream with a 2005 Mercury Prize nomination for Kitty Jay. The follow-up, Freedom Fields, went gold and marked its 20th anniversary this year. His latest studio album, The Granite Way, arrived in 2025, recorded with longtime collaborators and drawing on the West Country stories that shaped his early work.
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