Robert Plant Sets 2026 Tour to Support Mighty Fine ‘Saving Grace’ Album
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Robert Plant & Saving Grace (Photo: Tom Oldham; used with permission)
Robert Plant has announced new concert dates with his current band, Saving Grace. The 2026 shows are in support of their fine new album, Saving Grace, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found,”featuring a new group of distinguished players. The new concerts, in the U.S., Mexico and South America, follow a North American fall tour. They are completing a U.K. run through the end of 2025. A pre-sale for the 2026 shows is underway. Tickets for the general public go on sale Dec. 12 here. The Saving Grace album, arrived September 26, 2025, via Nonesuch Records, and is available in the U.S./worldwide here and here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here. Listen to many of the songs below.
From the July 16 album announcement: the genesis of Saving Grace began during the lockdown in “The Shire,” when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. While his recent adventures have centered around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss for 2021’s chart-topping, multi GRAMMY-nominated Raise The Roof, it was in the English countryside that Plant connected closely to this diverse group of musicians, who through their own experiences had a shared lean towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. Together, Plant and Saving Grace – vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown – have spent the past six years growing into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon.
“Chevrolet” is their rendition of Donovan’s 1965 “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness),” which is itself an adaptation of Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s 1930 Delta blues classic, “Can I Do It for You.”
With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries old spiritual number into a hypnotic and alluring mélange of vocals, steel banjo, and acoustic guitar.
“We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,” says Plant, who turned 77 on August 20. “You know, I can’t find any reason to be too serious about anything. I’m not jaded. The sweetness of the whole thing … These are sweet people and they are playing out all the stuff that they could never get out before. They have become unique stylists and together they seem to have landed in a most interesting place.”
Listen to Plant and Saving Grace’s reimagined rendition of Low’s “Everybody’s Song”
The album, produced by Plant and Saving Grace – and recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders – breathes fresh life into a collection of century-old music. A treasury of songs featured back in time by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk’s Low.
Related: Our review of the Robert Plant 2025 tour with Saving Grace
Robert Plant Saving Grace Tracklist
Chevrolet
As I Roved Out
It’s A Beautiful Day Today
Soul Of A Man
Ticket Taker
I Never Will Marry
Higher Rock
Too Far From You
Everybody’s Song
Gospel Plough
Watch them perform “Everybody’s Song”
Robert Plant & Saving Grace 2025-2026 Tour Dates (Tickets are available here and here)
Dec 11 – London, UK – Royal Festival Hall
Dec 14 – Birmingham, UK – Symphony Hall
Dec 15 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Apollo
Dec 17 – Glasgow, UK – Royal Concert Hall
Dec 18 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
Dec 21 – Middlesbrough, UK – Town Hall
Dec 22 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – O2 City Hall
Dec 23 – York, England – York Barbican
2026
Mar 14 – Albuquerque, NM – Kiva Auditorium
Mar 16 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Theater
Mar 18 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre
Mar 19 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre
Mar 21 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
Mar 22 – New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre
Mar 24 – Memphis, TN – Orpheum Theatre
Mar 26 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
Mar 28 Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre (Big Ears Festival)
Mar 29 – Louisville, KY – Louisville Palace Theatre
Mar 31 – Raleigh, NC – Memorial Auditorium
Apr 01 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Apr 02 – Newport News, VA – Ferguson Center for the Arts
Apr 04 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met
Apr 06 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center for the Arts
Apr 07 – New York, NY – Cathedral of St. John the Divine
May 10 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex
May 11 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex
May 14 – Cordoba, Argentina – Plaza de la Musica
May 16 – Rosario, Argentina – Metropolitano Rosario
May 19 – Porto Alegre, Brazil – Auditorio Araujo Vianna
May 21 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Vivo Rio Hall
May 24 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – C6Fest – Ibirapuera ZPark
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1 Comment so far
Jump into a conversationtrack sounds like Geoff & Maria Muldar’s version of song to me; Memphis Minnie/Kansas Joe’s version is great imo w/ better interplay of male/female voices…also have live ver by Ed Young/Emma Ramsey that has its charms, even have ver by Taj Mahal, that is so-so, and of course studio/live versions by Donovan, but MY FAVE version is Eric Burdon/Animals version…that ver I tend 2 play over & over again in lots of repetitions…while I was pleased/curious seeing Mr Plant was doing this song, and anxious 2 hear it, feel as said, sounds like knock off/nothing beyond muldaur’s version…glad he brings attention 2 it, and hope it leads 2 folks liking it, and seeking all these other versions of it, esp Animals & Memphis Minnie solo/duet versions…great tune almost 100 yrs old!