Nick Cave sets 25-date North American tour for 2027

Nick Cave will return to North America in spring 2027 with a 25-date run of Conversations With Nick Cave, a live format pairing audience questions with solo piano performances of songs from his catalogue. The tour is scheduled to open April 9 at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre and conclude May 21 at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans.

The itinerary includes dates in 19 U.S. and Canadian cities, with multiple-night runs in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston and Brooklyn. Cave is also scheduled to perform in Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Asheville, Atlanta, Nashville and Memphis. The announced schedule lists 25 performances in total.

At the shows, Cave will take questions from the audience and perform solo at the piano. The format follows his 2019 tour of the same name, which developed from an idea first introduced in 2018. The Vancouver performance is the tour’s opening date; the announced itinerary does not give its start time.

Cave said the earlier shows became deeply healing for him and that correspondence with fans through The Red Hand Files helped prompt his return to the format. He described the new...