Beth Orton // The Ground Above Tour '26

Name: Beth Orton // The Ground Above Tour '26
Start: 2026-09-26T19:30:00-05:00
Location: The Parkway Theater

Schedule

Sat, 26 Sep, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Parkway Theater | Minneapolis, MN

On sale Friday, April 24 at 9 am!
Presented by The Current
Saturday, September 26, 2026
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
Acclaimed UK singer-songwriter Beth Orton announces a North American tour in support of her astounding new album, The Ground Above. Stereogum calls the just released eight and a half minute title track “an honest-to-god epic... building from swirling impressionism to percussive meditation.”
A pioneer of the "folktronica" genre (mixing elements of folk and electronica), Orton has long been regarded as possessing one of the most unique and expressive voices in music — a voice that has grown evermore rich and wise over time.
For more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos, the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. Her records arrive patiently, unified by emotional focus rather than any single musical style. From the pioneering folktronica of 1996’s Trailer Park to the earthy classic-rock miniatures of 2006’s Comfort of Strangers through 2022’s self-produced Weather Alive, she has built a catalogue that exists proudly out of time, each album its own planet in an ever-expanding solar system.
If Weather Alive lived underwater, spectral and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is her most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a hard-won strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a suspended dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration and renewal without denial, acceptance without resignation.
“All the songs on the record are looking through the prism of the years from many directions at once,” Orton says. “If writing songs is therapy, it’s hallucinogenic therapy. It’s working with the unconscious, it’s lucid dreaming.” The album represents independence and authorship, while being deeply collaborative at its core. Working with trusted musicians including multi-instrumentalists Shahzad Ismaily and Vernon Spring’s Sam Beste, drummers Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet, The Smile) and Chris Vatalaro, and bassist Tom Herbert, Orton reaches new heights as a producer, songwriter, singer, and bandleader.
Split into two distinct halves, The Ground Above offers a life-affirming reckoning with grief and love as parallel certainties. “What kept me alive, and sometimes nearly killed me, through most of my childhood and all the way through my early 30s was a kind of feral invincibility, barrelling through. I said yes to life, over and over again, embraced and devoured all that I could, propelled magnetically in a flying dream that didn’t allow for time to catch up with me, except for when it did of course.”