“We Are America is going to be a celebration of great Americans and American music. I want to remind us all of who we are” - Madeleine Peyroux
2026 sees the celebrated musician Madeleine Peyroux embark on the We Are America tour. “My music and these performances are part of a dialogue,” she explains, “a candid, ongoing conversation with a loyal community brought together by the power of music.”
Marking the 10th Anniversary of Secular Hymns’ release, the tour reunites the singular artist with her longtime collaborators bassist Barak Mori, and guitarist Jon Herington. This dynamic trio recorded classic tunes by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Sister Rosetta Tharpe among others in 2016, and carried the worldwide tour that followed. Ten years on, the intimate ensemble will set the scene for Peyroux to uplift audiences with a captivating mix of originals and covers, old and new, but entirely American—from Allen Toussaint, Judy Collins, Bessie Smith and Bob Dylan, to Peyroux’s own soul-baring originals—delivered in the distinctive, intimate, crooning candour now synonymous with the artist’s name. It has also been thirty years since the release of the breakthrough album Dreamland— the milestone recording that shifted teen busker Peyroux from the streets of Paris to the world’s grandest concert halls, cementing her status as a talent that is here to stay. With the 2026 WE ARE AMERICA tour, we have a chance to revel in the veteran artist’s personal journey, as well as that of the world at large.
Peyroux is “committed to live up to the legacy of the people that came before, some of whom I had the added honor to meet - I met Abbey Lincoln when she opened for her at a jazz festival in Oregon, and Allen Toussaint several years before his passing.” It was Toussaint who advised Peyroux to listen to different singers saying "you got to listen to Billie Holiday to learn phrasing, and you got to listen to Dionne Warwick to get intonation, and you’ve got to listen to Sarah Vaughan for her exploration, her improvisation, and Ella Fitzgerald - well, that’s just God.”
2026 finds Peyroux in top form - fine-tuned and confident, curious and bold. With sold out tours, high end collaborations and countless accolades to her name, the dedicated musician seeks an honest, personal and direct connection with the community she lovingly built over the years.
“It is an ongoing conversation with music as our language” she explains, “music is a human language that stops people in their tracks, I’ve seen this all over the world, from a person passing a busker on the street to thousands listening intently in a massive concert hall - music always unites people - it’s an essential part of being human.”
