The rich and remarkable careers of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have made them essential pillars of modern acoustic music. That widely acknowledged reality was reinforced when their most recent album, Woodland, won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Welch describes the music of Woodland as “a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.” The duo’s signature sound is tinged with lovely lyricism and emotional intensity.

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

University of Iowa

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are pillars of the modern acoustic music world and their rich and remarkable careers span over twenty-five years. They have been hailed by Pitchfork as “modern masters of American folk” and “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone and the New York Times says “their combined voices operate beyond simple sonic harmony. There are emotional inquiries at play. If Welch’s voice delivers the good news or the hard news of the world, Rawlings’s voice comes underneath, asking how much deeper the sadness can go or what fresh heights the ecstatic can climb to.”

Groton Hill Music Center

Fox Theater Oakland

The Center Benefit Featuring Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

The Center

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are pillars of the modern acoustic music world and their rich and remarkable careers span over twenty-five years. They have been hailed by Pitchfork as “modern masters of American folk” and “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone.

Martin Woldson Theater

Live at the Eccles presents GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS on June 22, 2025 at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City. ArtTix is the official source for tickets for Live at the Eccles events.

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre

105.5 The Colorado Sound Presents Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Paramount Theatre Denver

Gillian Howard Welch (born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of appalachian music, bluegrass, country and americana, is described by The New Yorker as “at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms”. Welch and Rawlings have released five critically acclaimed albums under the name Gillian Welch and two under the name Dave Rawlings Machine. Their 1996 debut, Revival, and the 2001 release Time (The Revelator), received nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

David Rawlings

Golden State Theatre

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s rich and remarkable career spans over twenty years, and they are pillars of the modern acoustic music world. Their latest release, All The Good Times, a collection of ten acoustic covers by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten, and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional songs, won the 2021 Best Folk Album GRAMMY. Recently, Welch and Rawling’s 2011 album, the GRAMMY-nominated The Harrow & The Harvest, described by the Washington Post as “Welch…at her haunting, heart-aching best,” was released for the first time ever on reel-to-reel tape via their own Acony Records.

The Woodruff Arts Center

Gillian Welch’s rich and remarkable career spans over twenty-five years, and she and her musical partner David Rawlings are a pillar of the modern acoustic music world. They have been hailed by Pitchfork as “modern masters of American folk” and “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone.

David Rawlings

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Aug 5, 2026

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings · University of Iowa School of Music

Jul 22, 2026

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings · Groton Hill Music Center

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