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Bruce Hornsby’s 2026 Gets Busier: New Album, Expanded Tour

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Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers

Bruce Hornsby has shared a second track from his forthcoming album, Indigo Park. The song’s arrival on March 4, 2026, came on the same day he revealed more than two dozen additional dates for his U.S. tour. The uptempo song, “Ecstatic,” is a collaboration with Bonnie Raitt, and follows the Feb. 4 release of the great title track. The album arrives April 3, 2026, days before he’s set to begin the first dates of the tour alongside his longtime six-piece band, The Noisemakers. The run, including a performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, will feature material from throughout his storied career. Tickets for Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers’ 2026 tour are available here.

The album, composed when he turned 70 in 2024, is produced by Tony Berg, Will Maclellan and Hornsby, who is backed by the Noisemakers, as well as guitarist Blake Mills, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Chris Dave. The record features collaborations with artists who have served as mutual inspirations throughout the many phases of his storied career: Raitt, the late Bob Weir, Ezra Koenig and late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Indigo Park, via Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers, is available to order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.

Drawing from a vast wellspring of American musical traditions, the singer, pianist, composer, bandleader and three-time GRAMMY®-winner, born Nov. 23, 1954, has built one of the most diverse, collaborative and adventurous careers in music, as he continues to expand a large and accomplished body of work through a vast array of stylistic approaches.

With Raitt’s unmistakable harmonies pushing him forward on “Ecstatic,” an inspired Hornsby vows not to take life’s experiences for granted, declaring: “there’s mystery everywhere and you never know what’ll smack you in the face.”

From the original Feb. 4 album announcement: With the exception of two songs co-written with Hunter (“Alabama” and “Might As Well Be Me, Florinda”), Indigo Park finds Hornsby singing more in the first-person than he ever has. He contemplates formative moments from his past, sometimes trying to resolve them, and other times looking for clues about his current-day outlook. In the title track, the first song he wrote for the album, Hornsby looks back on a 10th grade party at the Indigo Park Pool in Williamsburg, Va., when a “great big entrance” went awry. A seemingly mundane event that now feels revelatory when filtered through the present state-of-mind.

Watch the video for the great title track

Hornsby says, “It’s just an old bastard, looking back. To be honest, I’ve found a way, a path to grow old gracefully, with help from some newborn friends of mine.”

The Indigo Park album cover artwork is from the painting, Night Shadows, by Edward Hopper.

Indigo Park Tracklist
Indigo Park
Memory Palace (feat. Ezra Koenig)
Entropy Here (Rust In Peace)
Silhouette Shadows
Ecstatic (feat. Bonnie Raitt)
Alabama
North Dakota Slate Roof
Sliver of Time
Might As Well Be Me, Florinda (with Bob Weir & feat. Blake Mills)
Take a Light Strain

2026 also marks the 40th anniversary of The Way It Is – both the album and the #1 single of its title cut. [His vast catalog is available here.] Hornsby has since composed numerous scores and songs for close collaborator Spike Lee (Kobe Doin’ Work, She’s Gotta Have It, BlacKkKlansman and more), performed the soundtrack for Ken Burns’ Baseball, toured for years as a member of Grateful Dead, and worked with fellow stars Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Khan, Elton John, Jerry Garcia, Mavis Staples, Ornette Coleman, Phil Collins, Robbie Robertson, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Wayne Shorter. Willie Nelson and many more.

Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers 2026 Tour (Tickets are available here)
4/09 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
4/11 – Louisville, KY – Brown Theatre
4/12 – Nashville, TN – CMA Theater
4/14 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre
4/15 – Winston-Salem, NC – The Ramkat
4/17 – Atlanta, GA – TBA
4/19 – North Charleston, SC – High Water Music Festival
4/21 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
4/23 – Birmingham, AL – The Lyric Theatre
4/25 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
6/02 – Redding, CA – Cascade Theatre
6/04 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
6/05 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
6/07 – Medford, OR – Holly Theatre
6/08 – Folsom, CA – Harris Center- Stage One
6/10 – San Ramon, CA – Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center
6/11 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
6/13 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre
6/16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour
6/17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour
6/18 – Ojai, CA – Libbey Bowl
6/20 – Scottsdale, AZ – Virginia G. Piper Theatre
6/21 – Corona, CA – Dos Lagos Amphitheater
7/24 – Morristown, NJ – Mayo PAC
7/25 – Patchougue, NY – Great South Bay Music Festival
7/27 – Ocean City, NJ – Ocean City Music Pier
7/29 – North Bethesda, MD – The Music Center at Strathmore
7/30 – Lansdowne, PA – Lansdowne Theater
8/01 – Katonah, NY – TBA
8/02 – Groton, MA – The Concert Hall at Groton Hill Music Center
8/04 – Oak Bluffs, MA – TBA
8/05 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
8/08 – Beverly, MA – The Cabot
8/11 – North Tonawanda, NY – West Herr Riviera Theatre
8/13 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Cain Park Evans Amphitheater
8/15 – Columbus, OH – TBA
8/16 – Grand Rapids, MI – TBA
9/24 – Boulder, CO – Chautauqua Auditorium
9/26 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater
9/27 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater
9/29 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
9/30 – Iowa City, IA – Hancher Auditorium
10/02 – Ann Arbor, MI – TBA
10/03 – Evanston, IL – Cahn Auditorium
10/05 – Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place
10/07 – St. Louis, MO – The Factory
10/08 – Champaign, IL – Virginia Theatre
10/10 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theatre
10/11 – Carmel, IN – TBA
10/13 – Munhall, PA – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
10/16 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theatre
10/17 – Newport News, VA – Virginia Arts Festival at CNU’s Ferguson Center

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