Bridge City Sinners Announce UK “Repent & Repeat” & US “Trick Or Treat” Tours

Bridge City Sinners are heading back to the UK and Ireland this fall. The Repent and Repeat tour starts September 30th in Brighton and runs through to October 11th. Later that month, the band brings its Trick or Treat shows to the West Coast before joining Streetlight Manifesto for three Texas dates in November. You can view Bridge City Sinners‘ UK & US tour dates and purchase tickets here. With banjo, fiddle, guitar, upright bass and ukulele, Bridge City Sinners draw from old-time jazz, Appalachian folk and punk. Their live shows mix eerie ballads with loud, rowdy singalongs, a combination that has taken them from Punk Rock Bowling Festival to Muddy Roots and Oregon’s Bluegrass String Summit.

“Can’t wait to be back in the UK. It’s been two years since we’ve tasted those beautiful breakfast beans. We get to celebrate our favorite holiday for two full weeks this year and we’re going all out. A lot of people really loved Streetlight Manifesto in high school and I still can’t believe we get to play some shows with them.” (guitarist and vocalist King Strang)

The band grew out of Portland’s street music community. Libby Lux and upright bassist Scott Michaud had played together on the sidewalks before Bridge City Sinners took shape in 2016 as a loose group of friends. They played without much rehearsal or a fixed lineup, drawing on years spent traveling and making music on streets, in living rooms and wherever else they could gather people around a song. What began as friends playing on Portland sidewalks became a band touring across the US and overseas. They’ve kept much of that work in their own hands, releasing their albums through the community label Flail Records.