Folk rocker Todd Snider will play a series of shows this December with a variety of special guests. The singer-songwriter will kick things off with a performance at the Rootsfest benefit concert at Denver’s Paramount Theatre on December 8. He will be joined by Patty Griffin and Lake Street Dive at the event. Snider will then play a show at the KPIG Humbug Hoedown at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz on December 14. The following day he will be joined by bassist Dave Schools of Widespread Panic and drummer Paulo Baldi of Cake/Les Claypool at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, CA. Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers will open for him at that show. Snider will then play a gig in Bowling Green, KY on December 28 before heading to Memphis, TN for a New Year’s Eve show with his original band The Nervous Wrecks at the New Daisy Theater on December 31. He will be supported by Cory Brannan and Will Kimbrough for that show. A full list of his upcoming tour dates can be viewed below.

You can read the “Spotlight” article on Snider from the March 2011 issue of Relix here. A reevew of his latest album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables here.

Todd Snider December 2012 tour dates

December 8 Denver, CO—Paramount Theater, Rootsfest w/ Patty Griffin and Lake Street Dive
December 14 Santa Cruz, CA—The Catalyst, KPIG Humbug Hoedown
December 15 Napa, CA—Uptown Theatre w/ Dave Schools and Paulo Baldi(*)
December 28 Bowling Green, KY—The Warehouse at Mt. Victor(^)
December 31 Memphis, TN—New Daisy Theater w/ The Nervous Wrecks(#)

(*) supported by Nick Bluhm and The Gramblers
(^) supported by Amanda Shires
(#) supported by Cory Brannan and Will Kimbrough