Alison Krauss & Union Station at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater | July 24, 2026
There are voices in American roots music that don’t fill a room so much as quiet it. Alison Krauss is one of them. The moment she steps to a microphone, something in the air changes — conversations drop, people stop moving. It has been that way since she first started recording in her teens, and it is still that way now, four decades and a landmark new record later. On a Friday evening in late July at the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater, with Jerry Douglas’s Dobro answering her from somewhere across the stage, that silence is going to happen again.
About Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas brings the Arcadia 2026 Tour to western New York on Friday, July 24, with Theo Lawrence opening the show.
Arcadia — released in 2025 on Down The Road Records — is the band’s eighth studio album and their first new studio release in over fourteen years, following the Grammy-winning Paper Airplane from 2011. The Arcadia 2025 Tour sold out entirely, the first time this lineup had toured together in more than a decade. The 2026 run extends that momentum into something more sustained: 60-plus dates across North America, running from late April through early October and including a three-night residency at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September.
The Chautauqua show features the full ensemble — Krauss on fiddle and lead vocals, Jerry Douglas on Dobro and lap steel, Ron Block on banjo and guitar, Barry Bales on bass, and Russell Moore on guitar and mandolin. Jacob Burleson, a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist with experience in Volume Five, East Nash Grass, and other ensembles, joins the touring lineup as a new addition. Together this group has maintained their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music for nearly four decades.
About Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater
The Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater is the principal performance stage of the Chautauqua Institution, a summer education and arts program on a lakeside campus in western New York. The outdoor amphitheater draws audiences from across the region each summer — the kind of setting where open air becomes part of the experience, and where a show built around voice, acoustic instrumentation, and the deep interplay of musicians who have shared stages for decades finds a natural home.
Tickets & Show Details
Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas performs at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater on Friday, July 24, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $75–$175. Chautauqua Institution Gate Pass holders receive complimentary access to the event as part of their pass. Buy tickets.