Irish Hip-Hop Trio Kneecap Announce 2025 North American Tour Dates

Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap have announced dates for their 2025 North American tour. The West Belfast, Northern Ireland group whose self-titled, semi-autobiographical film about their rise to fame premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, will kick off the 15-show run in support of their 2024 debut album, Fine Art, with their Coachella Festival debut on April 11.

From there they will hit Denver and Salt Lake City before coming back for the festival’s second weekend on April 18, then hopping back to Europe for a series of festival and headlining summer/fall shows. The North American run will pick up again on Oct. 3 with a show in Louisville, KY, followed by gigs in Nashville, Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Toronto, Detroit, Columbus, Chicago, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Seattle and Portland before winding down on Oct. 27 at the Independent in San Francisco. (See the full roster of dates below.)

Tickets for the band’s largest headlining shows to date will go on sale with a local pre-sale today (Jan. 30) at 10 a.m. local time, followed by a general on-sale on Friday (Jan. 31) at 10 a.m. local time.

The group — Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (stage name Mo Chara), Naoise Ó Cairealláin (stage name Móglaí Bap) and JJ Ó Dochartaigh (stage name DJ Próvaí) — played in clubs during a 2023-2024 North American tour. They’ve earned a number of accolades for their big screen debut, a gritty musical drama set in the late 2010s in which they hit upon the idea of forming an Irish-language hip-hop group to help spread their native tongue to a younger generation. To date, the film has picked up the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance, as well as seven trophies at the British Independent Film Awards.

See the tour announcement poster and dates below.