Virginia Arts Festival presents
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Featuring Jerry Douglas with special guest Theo Lawrence
Arcadia 2026 Tour
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

Tickets on sale this Friday December 12 at 10 am

Virginia Arts Festival is pleased to announce Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, with special guest Theo Lawrence, in their Arcadia Tour, will perform Saturday, June 27, 2026 as part of the Williamsburg Live four-day weekend!

Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 12 and will be available at vafest.org, by phone 757-282-2822, and in person at the Virginia Arts Festival Box Office (440 Bank Street in Norfolk).      

For nearly four decades, Alison Krauss & Union Station have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music. Known for an immaculately crafted but endlessly surprising sound that transcends the boundaries of roots, country, rock & roll, and pop, Alison Krauss & Union Station released their highly anticipated, 3x GRAMMY®-nominated new album Arcadia in 2025. This marked their first studio album since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts. Over the years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have brought their phenomenal live show to sold-out performances at famed venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Greek Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall, in addition to supporting Paul Simon in Hyde Park for his 2012 Graceland reunion. They now continue the celebration of their new music with the Arcadia 2026 Tour.

The players – Alison Krauss (fiddle, lead vocal), Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, vocals), Barry Bales (bass, vocals), and welcoming highly acclaimed and celebrated tenor vocalist Russell Moore (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal) as the newest member – are five distinct personalities, each of whom enjoys a flourishing solo career. But when they come together, they transform into a peerless group of musicians who share a singular focus.

Williamsburg Live, located on the Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is expanding in 2026 to a four-day weekend with the addition of a Thursday night performance. “We always enjoy celebrating the culmination of our season with world-class artists in the heart of Colonial Williamsburg,” said Rob Cross, Virginia Arts Festival Perry Artistic Director.  “I’m excited to welcome Alison Krauss and Union Station back to the Festival and I know this performance will be a treat for visitors and locals.”

“Many people in bluegrass music talk about being born in the wrong decade,” says Alison Krauss, “and whenever I sing, the pictures I see in my head take place in a particular time. That's what happened with these tunes, maybe even more so than in the past.”

If You Go:
Alison Krauss & Union Station
with Jerry Douglas and special guest Theo Lawrence
Virginia Arts Festival’s Williamsburg Live
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Gates open at 5:30 pm. Performance begins at 7:30 pm.
The Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
Tickets at vafest.org, 757-282-2822, in person at the VAF Box Office (440 Bank Street in Norfolk)

About Williamsburg Live 
The Virginia Arts Festival hosts an annual outdoor summer music event Williamsburg Live on The Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. The 2026 dates for Williamsburg Live are June 25 – 28. Williamsburg Live offers a unique, beautiful setting for an intimate music festival experience designed to appeal to all the senses. Shaded by centuries-old trees, The Lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg is surrounded by history – the perfect spot to enjoy great music, delicious local food truck fare, and local and regional craft beers and wines. Past artists headliners include The Beach Boys, Laufey, Alison Krauss, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Lake Street Dive, Rhiannon Giddens, Jason Isbell, Martina McBride, Amos Lee, Chris Thile, Leyla McCalla, The Wood Brothers, Shovels & Rope, Kenny Loggins, and Keb’ Mo’.  

About Virginia Arts Festival 
The largest performing arts organization in Southeastern Virginia, the Virginia Arts Festival has presented great performers from across the globe since 1997.  Under the direction of Perry Artistic Director Robert W. Cross, renowned artists have performed at the festival including Itzhak Perlman, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Olga Kern, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Miami String Quartet, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Stewart Copeland, Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Patti LuPone, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre and Mark Morris Dance Group. The Festival has presented numerous world premieres and new productions of classical music, dance, and theatre from some of today’s most influential composers, choreographers, and playwrights. Van Cliburn Gold Medal-Awarded pianist Olga Kern serves as the Festival’s Connie and Marc Jacobson Director of Chamber Music, and award-winning Broadway music director Rob Fisher serves as the Festival’s Goode Family Artistic Advisor for Musical Theater and American Songbook. Each season, Virginia Arts Festival performances are broadcast nationwide on American Public Radio’s Performance Today. The Festival’s arts education programs reach tens of thousands of schoolchildren each year through student matinees, in-school performances, artist residencies, master classes, and demonstrations. 

VAF Media Contact
Alli Pereira
Apereira@vafest.org
757-282-2822