In these days of fast transportation and fast connection, three bands have chosen to go back in time. This April, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show will tour across America, traveling only in vintage rail cars.
The Railroad Revival Tour will be a one-week tour bringing them into 6 locations from Oakland, CA to New Orleans, LA, where they will play at unique outdoor locations.
This is how they describe and justify this odd but original choice on the website:
‘Today’s mass transit is built for speed and volume, which suits our modern lifestyle. But sometimes the notion of landscape and discovery is left behind. The RRT is an effort to re-imagine that landscape, the experience of the journey, and to re-discover what happens in between destinations. The inaugural Railroad Revival Tour train is more than 1,500 feet long. It features 15 vintage railcars pulled by 2 locomotives, and is set to travel more than 2,000 miles over tracks that stretch across five states.’
Here are the dates but they are already all sold out except for New Orleans!
Oakland Middle Harbor Shoreline Park on 4/21
San Pedro, CA Ports O' Call Village on 4/22
Chandler, AZ 330 E. Ryan Road on 4/23
Marfa, TX El Cosmico on 4/24
Austin, TX 4th and Waller on 4/26
New Orleans, LA Woldenberg Park on 4/27
I only know the San Pedro location, it’s a charming harbor village, here is the website:
http://railroadrevivaltour.com/