Iron & Wine teams up with I'm With Her for new single "Robin's Egg" ahead of co-headline tour
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Iron & Wine teams up with I'm With Her for new single "Robin's Egg" ahead of co-headline tour

Alan Pedder

With their co-headline US tour just a month away, Iron & Wine and I'm With Her – the trio of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins – have joined forces on a new track, "Robin's Egg".

Iron & Wine's Sam Beam had started writing the song some time ago, but didn't finish it until the tour with I'm With Her started to come together. "I passed it to them with the hope they were up for adding their voices to it and lucky for me they were!," he says. "I’m looking forward to performing it, and a few other surprises, with them this summer.”

Watch the animated video for "Robin's Egg", directed by Lizi Breit, below:

The joint tour – appropriately named the Robin's Egg Tour – follows last year's acclaimed Iron & Wine album Light Verse and I'm With Her's recent Wild and Clear and Blue, which came out just last month.

Support on all but one of the tour dates will come from Ken Pomeroy, who recently released her debut album Cruel Joke. Beam has another Iron & Wine co-headline tour lined up for September, this time with longtime friends Band of Horses. Ahead of all of those, though, he'll play two headline shows in Wisconsin with support from Elizabeth Moen. Full list of dates below:

07/05 Orilla, ON @ Mariposa Folk Festival
07/07 Viroqua, WI @ Historic Temple Theatre of Viroqua
07/08 Bayfield, WI @ Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua
07/10 Interlochen, MI @ Interlochen Center for the Arts *
07/11 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre *
07/12 Asheville, NC @ Asheville Yards Amphitheater *
07/13 Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre *
07/15 Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap *
07/17 Halifax, NS @ Halifax Jazz Festival
07/19 Portland, ME @ Thompson's Point *
07/20 Burlington, VT @ The Green at Shelburne Museum *
07/21 Northampton, MA @ The Pines Theater at Look Park *
07/23 Richmond, VA @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden *
07/24 Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre *
07/25 LaFayette, NY @ Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards *
07/26 Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival
09/06 Evanston, IL @ Evanston Folk Festival
09/12 Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond **
09/18 Seattle, WA @ Marymoor Park **
09/19 Eugene, OR @ The Cuthbert Amphitheater **
09/20 Portland, OR @ McMenamins Grand Lodge **
09/22 Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery **
09/23 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield **
09/24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern **
09/26 Del Mar, CA @ The Sound at Del Mar **
09/27 Las Vegas, NV @ Bel-Aire Backyard **
09/28 Chandler, AZ @ Gila River Resorts & Casinos Wild Horse Pass **
09/30 Flagstaff, AZ @ Pepsi Amphitheater **
10/02 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues Anaheim **
10/03 Santa Barbara, CA @ The Arlington Theatre **

* with I’m With Her
** with Band of Horses


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