LEON BRIDGES ANNOUNCES 2022 UK/EU TOUR

Since Leon introduced himself with the vintage soul of his debut LP Coming Home back in 2015, he’s remained an ever-evolving and unpredictable artist with each new release. What does remain constant however, is Leon’s smooth, sultry vocal and a fiercely collaborative spirit that has seen him share the studio with the likes of Diplo, Lucky Daye, Kacey Musgraves, Noah Cyrus, John Mayer, Shawn Mendes, Anderson .Paak, Terrace Martin, The Avalanches, and an ongoing series of EP releases with fellow Texans, Khruangbin.  On Gold-Diggers Sound, Leon found the unlikely sweet spot where R&B, jazz, soul, afrobeat and psych co-exist in a deeply personal record that moves his musical narrative two steps left and ever forward-facing.

Grammy Award-winning R&B recording artist and songwriter Leon Bridges will release his third studio album Gold-Diggers Sound on July 23rd. Gold-Diggers Sound is the third solo from Leon Bridges in a career trajectory that saw him going from working as a dishwasher and busking on the streets of his beloved Fort Worth, TX to being signed to a major label and performing at the White House for Former President Barack Obama within a two-year span. Following the release of his Grammy Award winning sophomore album, Good Thing, Leon issued a steady stream of music including tracks with John Mayer, Kacey Musgraves, Kiana Ledé, Lucky Daye and Noah Cyrus as well as Texas Sun, a collaboration project with fellow Texans, Khruangbin. Other career highlights include opening for Harry Styles on an arena tour, his breakout track “River” being certified Platinum, portraying Gil Scott Heron in Damien Chazelle’s First Man, appearing in a global GAP holiday campaign, garnering a CMT Award for his Crossroads collaboration with Luke Combs, performing at the Tom Ford NYFW show and MoMA’s Film Benefit honoring Tom Hanks, selling out Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Hollywood Bowl and back to back nights at Radio City Music Hall. 

The shows will be the Grammy Award winning artist’s first outside of the US since the release of his acclaimed third album, Gold-Diggers Sound back in July, and his first across the Atlantic since November 2018.

The tour kicks off in Stockholm on 13th June (preceded by a festival performance at Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands), concluding at Tonhalle in Munich on 6th July. It arrives in the UK on 17th June for a night at Manchester’s Apollo, followed by shows in Birmingham, Bristol, London’s Eventim Apollo, Dublin and Edinburgh, before heading back to Europe and Paris on 30th June. See below for full tour details.