Alison Krauss & Union Station at Palace Theatre | July 22, 2026
Alison Krauss and Union Station’s return to Albany on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, is the kind of date that warrants some sitting with. The band — Krauss on fiddle and lead vocal, Jerry Douglas on Dobro and lap steel, Ron Block on banjo and guitar, Barry Bales on bass — last released a studio album together in 2011. They last toured as a unit before that. The Arcadia 2026 Tour, the second leg of a run supporting their first new record in fourteen years, is not a victory lap. It is a working tour by a working band, and Albany gets one of its summer dates.
The acoustic case for putting this show in the Palace Theatre is straightforward. Bluegrass at proper volume in a proper hall is one of the great pleasures of live music, and the 2,844-seat room on Clinton Avenue is one of the few within a hundred-mile radius where you can have that experience without compromise. The booking is deliberate.
About Alison Krauss & Union Station
For listeners who first came to Krauss through her Grammy-winning collaborations with Robert Plant on Raising Sand, or through the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Union Station is the source. This is the group she built her career on — a partnership of nearly four decades with some of the most decorated musicians in American roots music. Jerry Douglas is, by general critical consensus and by his own substantial trophy cabinet, the defining Dobro player of his generation. Block and Bales have been the rhythmic foundation of Union Station for so long that the band’s tone is essentially their tone.
Arcadia, released in 2025 on Down The Road Records, is the group’s eighth studio album and the first since 2011’s Paper Airplane. It debuted on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk album charts. The 2025 leg of this same tour sold out. None of that is hype — it is the predictable result of a fanbase that has been waiting fourteen years and a band that has not lost a step.
Opening the Albany show is Theo Lawrence, a French-Canadian country and Americana songwriter whose traditional approach makes him a fitting curtain-raiser for an audience that takes the form seriously. He joins the Arcadia 2026 Tour on most dates.
The Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre at 19 Clinton Avenue remains a flagship A-list room in the Albany / Capital District and one of the steadiest acoustic-friendly bookings on the regional circuit. For a 7:30 PM curtain on a Wednesday in July, plan accordingly: this is a show that rewards getting into your seat before the lights drop, not after.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets for Alison Krauss & Union Station at the Palace Theatre on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, range from $39 to $161. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Buy tickets here.