Daniel Donato Maps Out 'Horizons' 2025 Fall Tour

Daniel Donato and his Cosmic Country bandmates will saddle up in fall 2025 for the Horizons tour. The stretch of 28 shows comes in support of the guitarist’s forthcoming album of the same name, out August 22nd via Retrace Music.

After Donato celebrates the album release with a headlining debut at Ryman Auditorium, the Horizons tour will begin in September, when Donato, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Railroad Earth reprise their triad set to hit the Midwest and Eastern United States next month. Donato will play with Yonder and RRE in Cary, NC (9/4), Richmond, VA (9/5), and Fairport, NY (9/6) ahead of one of five dates from the tour that has yet to be announced.

Following festival appearances at Bendor Jamboree in Las Vegas (9/12) and XPoNential Music Festival in Camden, NJ (9/21), the Horizon tour will get in gear for headlining dates throughout the Northeast and Southeast in Hartford, CT (9/26), Boston (9/27), Burlington, VT (9/28), Norfolk, VA ( 9/30), Winston-Salem, NC (10/2), and Birmingham, AL (10/3). Other stops include Charleston, SC (10/11), Charlottesville, VA (10/23), The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY (10/25), Minneapolis (10/30), Milwaukee where Donato has celebrated the past two Halloweens (11/1), Hulaween in Live Oak, FL (11/2), and more before the tour wraps at Sunshine Hootenanny in Brooksville, FL (11/14).

A pre-sale for tickets to the 2025 Daniel Donato Horizons fall tour is currently underway for Cosmic Country Club members. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 27th at 10 a.m. ET via Donato’s website. See below for a full list of tour dates.

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Horizons will mark the second consecutive Daniel Donato album of all-original music, following 2023’s Reflector. All the songs on the 15-track collection were played live and road-tested before going into the studio. The band, led by the 30-year-old former child guitar prodigy Donato, once again teamed up with Reflector co-producer Vance Powell (Trey Anastasio, Chris Stapleton, The White Stripes) for the new album.

“I wanted the lyrics to be easy to understand, not abstract,” Donato said of the album. “There are many layers to the meanings and you think about it, but it’s not rocket science to understand them. Trying to maintain a human sound and faith in what humans can do really inform the actual sonics and production of the record, too.”

Ahead of the release, Donato shared a studio recording of longtime live staple “Broadside Ballad”. Stream it below and pre-order Horizons here.

Daniel Donato Horizons 2025 Fall Tour

September

9/4 – Cary, NC *
9/5 – Richmond, VA *
9/6 – Fairport, NY *
9/7 – TBA
9/12 – Las Vegas, NV ^
9/18 – TBA
9/19 – TBA
9/21 – Camden, NJ ^
9/23 – Syracuse, NY
9/25 – Saratoga Springs, NY
9/26 – Hartford, CT
9/27 – Boston, MA
9/28 – Burlington, VT
9/30 – Norfolk, VA

October

10/2 – Winston-Salem, NC
10/3 – Birmingham, AL
10/4 – TBA
10/10 – Bath County, VA ^
10/11 – Charleston, SC ^
10/23 – Charlottesville, VA #
10/24 – Asbury Park, NJ
10/25 – Port Chester, NY
10/28 – Bloomington, IN
10/30 – Minneapolis, MN

November

11/1 – Milwaukee, WI
11/2 – Live Oak, FL ^
11/3 – TBA
11/14 – Brooksville, FL ^

* with Yonder Mountain String Band & Railroad Earth
# with Old Crow Medicine Show
^ Festival

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Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country — “Broadside Ballad”