Nubya Garcia announces 2025 North American tour

Nubya Garcia recently released her excellent sophomore album as a bandleader, Odyssey, and now the UK jazz trailblazer has announced a North American tour for 2025. It goes down in April and includes stops in Brooklyn, Cambridge, Toronto, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more, with tickets going on sale this Friday (10/18).

The Brooklyn stop is April 5 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. All dates are listed below.

In our review of Odyssey, we said: At times, Nubya and her core band of Joe Armon-Jones (keys), Daniel Casimir (bass), Sam Jones (drums) offer up spiritual jazz compositions that are every bit as timeless and compelling as Nubya’s late ’60s/early ’70s-era forebears. At others, she brings in guest vocalists esperanza spalding, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Richie to experimental with neo-soul and R&B; branches out into dub/reggae (“Triumphance”); dips her toes into modern classical (“Water’s Path”); and repurposes elements of hip hop and electronic music in a live-band setting.

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Nubya Garcia — 2024/2025 Tour Dates
October 23rd — Melbourne, AUS — Melbourne Jazz Fest
October 24th — Sydney, AUS — Oxford Art Factory,
October 26th — Perth, AUS — Fremantle Arts Centre
October 28th — Tokyo, JPN — Blue Note
October 29th — Tokyo, JPN — Blue Note
October 30th — Tokyo, JPN — Blue Note
November 2nd — Shanghai, CN — Blue Note
November 3rd — Beijing, CN — Blue Note

April 1st — Alexandria, VA — The Birchmere
April 2nd — Ardmore, PA — Ardmore Music Hall
April 4th — Cambridge, MA — The Sinclair
April 5th — Brooklyn, NY — Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 7th — Toronto, ON — The Axis Club
April 9th — Evanston, IL — Space
April 11th — Minneapolis, MN — Dakota
April 13th — Seattle, WA — Tractor Tavern
April 15th — Portland, OR — Star Theater
April 17th — San Francisco, CA — The Chapel
April 19th — Los Angeles, CA — Echoplex
April 22nd — La Jolla, CA — UCSD – The Loft