The Lumineers Tour 2026

Inside The Lumineers

The Lumineers are the Denver-based American folk-rock band whose stomp-and-shout 2012 breakout Ho Hey effectively reset what a folk-rock single sounded like on US radio for the rest of the decade. The core of the project has remained the same for the band's entire studio life: Wesley Schultz on lead vocals and acoustic guitar and Jeremiah Fraites on drums, piano and percussion — the songwriting partnership the two have run since they were teenagers in Ramsey, New Jersey in the early 2000s, before Schultz's cousin (and Fraites' older brother) Josh Fraites died of a drug overdose in 2002 and the surviving pair moved together to Denver in 2009 to start the band that would become The Lumineers. The lineup expanded across the studio releases and the touring cycles to include cellist Neyla Pekarek from 2010 through 2018, bassist Ben Wahamaki and later Byron Isaacs, multi-instrumentalist Stelth Ulvang on piano, accordion and mandolin, guitarist Brandon Miller, and violinist Lauren Jacobson, with rotating session musicians filling out the live string and brass sections. Five studio albums in — The Lumineers (2012), Cleopatra (2016), III (2019), Brightside (2022) and Automatic (2025) — the band have sold more than 5 million albums in the US alone, scored two Diamond-certified singles, headlined arenas and amphitheaters across North America and Europe, and become a fixture of the family-friendly festival headlining tier alongside Mumford & Sons, The Head and the Heart, The Avett Brothers and Of Monsters and Men. The live show is built around the inverse of stadium-rock maximalism — Schultz and Fraites typically open the night on a small b-stage in the middle of the floor, the band runs unplugged or near-unplugged for stretches of the set, the audience is asked to put phones down for specific songs, and the closing run lands the catalogue's biggest singalongs (Ho Hey, Stubborn Love, Ophelia, Cleopatra) at full force with the entire bowl singing every word. The Lumineers arrive in your city as one of the most reliable, family-friendly, sing-every-word headline tickets in the modern folk-rock circuit.

About The Lumineers

The Lumineers' story starts in Ramsey, New Jersey in the early 2000s, where teenage friends Wesley Schultz and Josh Fraites began writing songs together; when Josh died of an accidental drug overdose in 2002 at age 19, his younger brother Jeremiah Fraites — then 15 — began playing music with Schultz as a way of processing the grief, and the two kept writing together through the rest of the decade as they worked day jobs in and around New York. By 2009 the duo had decided that the Brooklyn folk scene was saturated, that they could not afford the city, and that a move would force the songs forward; they relocated to Denver, Colorado on the strength of Craigslist apartment listings, recruited classical cellist Neyla Pekarek through a separate Craigslist ad, and began playing the Denver open-mic and small-club circuit (the Meadowlark, the Larimer Lounge, the Bluebird Theater) under the name The Lumineers. They self-released their debut self-titled EP in 2011, signed to Dualtone Records in early 2012 on the strength of a viral live performance of Ho Hey, and released The Lumineers (2012) — anchored by Ho Hey, Stubborn Love, Flowers in Your Hair, Submarines, Big Parade and Slow It Down — to immediate commercial success: the album reached number two on the Billboard 200, sold more than 2.5 million copies in the United States, was Diamond-certified for digital singles on Ho Hey, and earned the band Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Americana Album. Cleopatra followed in April 2016 — Ophelia, Sleep on the Floor, Angela, Cleopatra, Gun Song — debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, topped the chart in the UK and Canada, won the Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album, and pushed the band into the arena and large-amphitheater tier they have occupied ever since. III, released September 2019, was the conceptual pivot — a ten-song narrative concept album in three chapters following three generations of a fictional family living with addiction, scored by short films directed by Kevin Phillips and featuring Gloria, Donna, Salt and the Sea, Leader of the Landslide and Life in the City. Brightside arrived in January 2022 — the title track, Big Shot, A.M. Radio, WHERE WE ARE — as a leaner, more pop-leaning record that the band built deliberately as a return to the Cleopatra-era live energy. Automatic, the band's fifth studio album, arrived in February 2025 and was supported by the Automatic World Tour that opened in April 2024 (with select early dates around the pre-release single rollout) and ran through arenas and amphitheaters across North America and Europe into 2025. Across the run The Lumineers have sold more than 5 million albums in the United States alone, charted three consecutive top-three Billboard 200 debuts, received four Grammy nominations, and become the rare modern folk-rock act whose audience reliably spans three generations of listeners — parents who heard Ho Hey on adult contemporary radio in 2012, kids who came up on Ophelia and Cleopatra in middle school, and the original Brooklyn-folk scene fans who tracked the band through the III concept-record turn. Schultz and Fraites have remained sober and outspoken about addiction recovery throughout the band's career — Schultz, in particular, has spoken openly in interviews about the loss of Josh Fraites as the central animating event of the songwriting partnership.

The Lumineers — The Automatic World Tour and beyond

The Lumineers' current live cycle has been built around the Automatic World Tour — the global routing in support of the band's fifth studio album Automatic (released February 2025). The Automatic World Tour opened in spring 2024 with early festival and warm-up dates and built into a multi-leg arena and amphitheater run through North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Continental Europe, with selected Latin American and Australian dates filling out the cycle through 2025. Past tour cycles — the Cleopatra World Tour (2016–2017), the III World Tour (2019–2020, interrupted by the pandemic), and the Brightside World Tour (2022–2023) — have followed the same routing logic: a North American leg through arena-tier markets (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Toronto, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville) and amphitheater-tier markets (Forest Hills Stadium, Red Rocks, the Greek Theatre, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Merriweather Post Pavilion), a UK and Ireland leg through London (the O2, Wembley Arena), Manchester, Dublin and Belfast, a Continental European leg through Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Madrid, and a homecoming Denver residency at Red Rocks Amphitheatre that has become the defining single moment of every Lumineers tour cycle. The live show typically runs 100 to 115 minutes across 22 to 25 songs and is built around a deliberately understated production — warm Edison-bulb lighting, a circular b-stage in the middle of the floor that Schultz and Fraites use for the opening songs, a near-acoustic mid-set stretch played from a small c-stage at the back of the floor, and a closing run with the full six-piece band that lands Ho Hey, Stubborn Love, Cleopatra and Ophelia at full volume. Future tour cycles beyond Automatic have not been formally announced; The Lumineers typically route in album cycles rather than as a continuous touring entity. Dates are announced through thelumineers.com, Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets (UK) and Live Nation regional partners.

The Lumineers tickets

The Lumineers tickets are sold through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets (UK and Europe), DICE, and Live Nation regional partners, with thelumineers.com mailing-list presales running roughly a week before public on-sales for each new leg. Pricing on the Automatic World Tour and recent Brightside cycle has tracked the middle of the arena and amphitheater tier: upper-bowl seats typically run from the equivalent of $45–$75 USD on the cheap end, mid-bowl and lower-bowl reserved seats $90–$160, pit and floor general admission $180–$280, and a small allocation of VIP packages with early entry, pre-show acoustic performance, premium viewing, signed merchandise and meet-and-greet add-ons at $350 and up. The Lumineers have publicly avoided the most aggressive dynamic-pricing tactics seen on other arena-tier tours — the band have spoken in interviews about wanting to keep a baseline of affordable tickets at every show — and Verified Fan registration is used selectively for the highest-demand North American dates (typically the New York, Boston, Chicago, Denver Red Rocks and Los Angeles on-sales). Secondary market reality for those flagship Lumineers markets is that face-value tickets sell through fast and the cleanest verified resale routes are Ticketmaster Verified Resale, AXS Official Resale, Twickets (UK), and DICE's in-app resale function, all of which cap resale at face value plus fees in most jurisdictions. Avoid generic search-ad ticket sites, Facebook Marketplace listings, and any seller insisting on payment outside an escrowed marketplace — counterfeit Lumineers tickets remain a meaningful problem at Red Rocks in particular, and unverified resale routinely fails the gate scan.

The Lumineers setlist — what they play

The Lumineers' setlists run 22 to 25 songs across 100 to 115 minutes and have followed a fairly consistent structure across the Cleopatra, III, Brightside and Automatic cycles. The show typically opens with Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites alone on a small b-stage in the middle of the floor — often on Sleep on the Floor or Brightside, just the two of them, before the rest of the band comes in. The first third lands quickly on Cleopatra, Submarines, Flapper Girl and either Salt and the Sea or Gloria from the III concept record. The middle of the show pulls Automatic material forward — the title track, the early-album singles and the conceptual closing run — paired with a near-acoustic c-stage stretch played from a small platform at the back of the floor (typically Slow It Down, Charlie Boy, Donna, or a stripped Stubborn Love that the audience is asked to phone-down for). The back third of the show is the catalogue greatest-hits stretch: Ophelia (one of the most reliable arena singalongs in the modern folk-rock circuit), Angela, Big Parade, and a long-form Stubborn Love with the audience handling the chorus for sustained stretches. The encore is the closing canon every Lumineers audience comes for: Ho Hey (the entire venue singing the hey/ho call-and-response), Cleopatra, and a final stripped acoustic moment — typically Schultz alone with the b-stage piano on something from the back catalogue. Night-by-night variation is meaningful: The Lumineers rotate around 30 to 35 songs across a given tour and Schultz routinely takes audience requests for a single slot in the c-stage acoustic stretch. Setlist.fm is the most reliable real-time source for confirming exactly what your specific Lumineers date is playing.

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