Saving Grace, the musical collective featuring former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, have announced a UK tour. The run of dates will kick off at the Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion on April 8, and climax at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on May 1.
Alongside Plant, the line-up of the band includes Suzi Dian (vocals), Oli Jefferson (percussion), Tony Kelsey (mandolin, baritone, acoustic guitar), and Matt Worley (banjo, acoustic, baritone guitars, cuatro).
Saving Grace made their live debut in January 2019 with a surprise performance at the Sparc Theatre in Bishop’s Castle, and followed this with a short run of low-key dates including two supporting supporting Fairport Convention.
The band announced US tour in 2020, but the shows were cancelled as lockdown bit. They also cancelled a planned appearance at that year’s G! Festival in the Faroe Islands in protest at the country’s whaling operation.
Saving Grace returned to the stage last summer with a run of UK dates, performing covers of songs by the likes of the Derek Trucks Band, Bob Dylan, Planxty, Moby Grape, Low, Donovan, Los Lobos, and Richard and Linda Thompson.
“Saving Grace is a bunch of friends back from on the Welsh borders, Worcestershire,” responded Plant, “and we do shows, very discreet, undercover shows. It’s a beautiful sound, a magnificent sound and it’s delicately tiptoeing its way to one day being yet another thing that we mustn’t know or talk about… so yes.”
Support on all UK dates will come from Wolverhampton singer/songwriter Scott Matthews. Tickets are on sale now.
Saving Grace UK Tour
Apr 08: Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion Apr 10: Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall Apr 11: London Hackney Empire Apr 14: Hull City Hall Apr 15: Scunthorpe Baths Hall Apr 16: York Grand Opera House Apr 19: Bewdley Treetops Safari Park (Tickets) Apr 20: Rhyl Pavilion Apr 22: Liverpool Eventim Olympia Apr 23: Middlesbrough Town Hall Apr 26: Halifax Victoria Theatre Apr 27: Stockport Plaza Apr 29: Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Tickets) May 01: Cheltenham Jazz Festival (Tickets)