As the band themselves announce 2027 UK dates.
The Felice Brothers are to be celebrated in the album Felice County Fair, a tribute album exploring and reimagining the band’s back catalogue, which will be released Oct 16th via Free Flight Records/Sun Mountain Records. “A couple of years ago, a friend and advocate of the band named Brandy Schultz called us with a vision to create a tribute record to our band and wanted to ask for our blessing,” comments Ian Felice in a note to fans. “Brandy is a uniquely powerful force of nature who usually has the ingredients to make margaritas in a cooler in her car. It’s two years later now, and somehow, by her sheer will and the devotion of many wonderful musicians and producers, her vision has become a reality. The fact that so many artists have contributed to this project simply out of a love for our music fills us with both bewilderment and gratitude.”
Brandy Schultz, wife of Wesley of The Lumineers, is the aforementioned driving force behind the project, and Wesley comments, “When Brandy and I first started dating, we each made a mix CD for each other, like a playlist. We each put Felice Brothers on our playlists…it was then I knew she was a keeper. A lot of our initial falling in love was listening to The Felice Brothers.” he adds, “My favorite thing to say about other artists is: ‘I wish I would’ve written that.’ The envy is the only way I know someone wrote a good song. And that’s so true with many Felice Brothers songs; when I play someone a Felice Brothers song, they always leave as a fan wanting more. It’s just a matter of getting the word out.
Felice County Fair features more than twenty-four tracks from the band’s decades-long career, and they’re covered by friends and fans, who really are a who ‘s-who of modern Americana. The album can be preordered here
“Whatever little check marks in my heart need to be checked to make the perfect music, they check all those things,” said Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst. “The poetry is there, the soulfulness is there, the song craft. Everything is so genuine. I want the world for them, and I want people to have the same experience I’ve had with how they’ve transformed my life with their art.”
The first releases – Bright Eyes’ take on Wonderful Life, The Lumineers’ The Kid, Dawes’ Jazz on the Autobahn, Bebe Stockwell’s TV Mama and Nathaniel Rateliff’s Aerosol Ball are available now. Additional album highlights include Old Crow Medicine Show’s version of Penn Station, while other contributors include Brandon Flowers, Deer Tick, and many more. Further details to be revealed soon. Simultaneously, a documentary about the band, directed by Tiller Russell and produced by Gabriela Hearst, the artist collective Love and Squalor Quarterly, and Sony Music Nashville, is scheduled to premiere concurrently with the album in October.
Meanwhile, the band themselves have several upcoming UK live dates confirmed. Tickets available here. Here’s to a Wonderful Life
The Felice Brothers 2026/27 UK Tour Dates
Aug. 29 / Found Festival / Middle Claydon, U.K.
Aug. 30 / The Long Road Festival / Lutterworth, U.K.
Sept. 1 / Norwich Arts Centre / Norwich, U.K.
Sept. 2 / 100 Club / London, U.K. (sold out)
Sept. 3 / The Boileroom / Guildford, U.K.
Sept. 6 / End of the Road Festival / Salisbury, U.K.
Feb. 10 / Irish Centre / Leeds, U.K.
Feb. 11 / Gorilla / Manchester, U.K.
Feb. 12 / The Fire Station / Sunderland, U.K.
Feb. 13 / Queen’s Hall / Edinburgh, U.K.
Feb. 16 / The Globe / Cardiff, U.K.
Feb. 17 / Lantern Hall / Bristol, U.K.
Feb. 18 / O2 Shepherds Bush Empire / London, U.K.
Feb. 19 / Rescue Rooms / Nottingham, U.K.
Feb. 20 / The Crossing / Birmingham, U.K.
