Allison Russell has teased new music with the single release of “No Springtime” featuring Joy Oladokun and Julie Williams. The track was produced by Allison Russell & Dim Star and is out everywhere now.
Last week, Russell took the stage at the JUNO Awards to pay tribute to fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchell. The performance was a duet between her and Sarah McLachan who she will tour with throughout the summer. Dates kick off on July 1st in Franklin, TN. A full list of tour dates is below.
Russell has also just completed her second run on Broadway as Persephone in the 8 xTony Award winning musical Hadestown. She took over the role in November 2024 initially, after spending much of that year opening for Hozier on his Unreal Unearth Toursupporting his arena run on all US dates and throughout Europe. She made herBillboard Hot 100 debut thanks to their duet “Wildflower and Barley.”
The accolades for Russell from her previous two albums Outside Child and The Returner,have been immense. Last year she was nominated for the Polaris Prize and namedBillboard Women In Music Canada’s “Breakthrough Artist of the Year.” She has had 8GRAMMY nominations and one win, earned three 2022 Americana Award nominations and a win for Album of the Year with subsequent nominations in 2023 and 2024, twoInternational Folk Music Award wins, a 2022 Juno nomination for ‘Songwriter of the Year,’ and her first-ever Juno Award win for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Russell won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, two UK Americana Music Awards, and more.
