Devendra Banhart has announced a twenty-three city North American tour for autumn 2019, beginning October 15 in Ventura, CA and continuing through December 8 in Philadelphia, with stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Brooklyn, and Washington, DC, among others (full schedule below). This will be his first tour of North America since 2017 and will feature Black Belt Eagle Scout as support on many dates. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 31, via nonesuch.com/on-tour.

For the upcoming tour, Banhart has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from US every ticket sold (excluding Austin) will go to World Central Kitchen (WCK), an organization founded by Chef José Andrés to fight hunger around the world. WCK has served more than eight million meals to victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crises, including Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, California wildfires, Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, and more. WCK is currently responding to the crisis on the Colombia-Venezuelan border and has served more than 350,000 meals to date. With every ticket bought in Canada, $1 will go to support Rainbow Railroad to help LGBTI people around the world escape persecution and violence.

Banhart, who also is an accomplished visual artist and poet, has been involved in several other projects this spring: A book of his ink drawings entitled Vanishing Wave, created in response to his travels in Japan shortly after the Tohoku earthquake, was released in April, published by Anteism Books. That same month, his first book of poetry, Weeping Gang, Bliss Void, Yab Yum, was published by Featherproof Books. An LP of various musicians’ demos that Banhart curated, Fragments du Monde Flottant, was released in March, and a limited-edition collaboration with Brooklyn clothing designer Alex Crane, Almas, featuring Banhart’s drawings on Crane’s linens, launched in April.

DEVENDRA BANHART ON TOUR