Judy Collins Announces “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes” Farewell Tour, Extending Through 2027

The decision to stop touring is rarely fixed in music, but Judy Collins is mapping her exit with unusual clarity. The “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes” Farewell Tour, announced today, includes more than 50 dates across the United States and Canada, stretching from this summer through late 2027, with additional shows still to be added.

Support on select nights will come from a short list of fellow travelers: Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn, Elles Bailey, and Amanda Shires. Shires will also join a special evening at Tanglewood on August 30, sharing the bill with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Rosanne Cash. A March 2027 date at New York’s Town Hall promises unannounced guests, leaving room for the kinds of spontaneous nods that have long defined Collins’ live presence.

Before the tour proper, Collins will appear as part of “America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together,” a Fourth of July PBS broadcast from Colonial Williamsburg alongside Michael Feinstein and others. The tour then gets underway with two nights in Williamsburg before moving through familiar folk circuits—the Cape Cod Melody Tent, Denver Botanical Garden, Club Passim’s larger rooms, the Old Town School of Folk in Chicago, and multi-night stands in Minneapolis and Alexandria.

“Touring has been the great thread of my life—city to city, song to song, face to face,” Collins said in a statement. “The audiences have carried me for decades, and I’ve never stopped being moved by what can happen in a room when we truly listen to one another. This tour is my way of saying thank you—out loud, together.” It’s an exit defined not by finality, but by a long series of goodbyes.