Rickie Lee Jones, the legendary American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned more than four decades, has announced a special UK tour for 2026.

Beginning in Cardiff at The Gate on Monday 25 May, the tour will then call at the London Barbican, Bury St Edmunds The Apex, and Coventry's Warwick Arts Centre Theatre (Friday 29 May), before the finale at Manchester’s RNCM Theatre of Saturday 30 May.  

A two-time Grammy Award winner, including of the coveted Best New Artist award, Jones remains one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music. Her jazz-inflected storytelling blends lyricism, improvisation, and cinematic emotional depth. 

Rickie Lee Jones rose to fame in the 1970s with her smokier take on the decade’s singer-songwriter scene on her debut self-titled album that featured hit singles such as ‘Chuck E.’s in Love’ and ‘Coolsville’. 

The follow-up, Pirates, celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2026 and is considered a masterpiece. It saw Jones hailed as the "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" by The New Yorker and dubbed "The Duchess of Coolsville" by Time magazine, springboarding her to stardom throughout the 1980s. 

More recently, Jones released her latest album Pieces of Treasure in 2023, which was a Grammy-nominated reunion with Russ Titelman, the producer behind her first two records. 

Her celebrated memoir, Last Chance Texaco, released in 2021, received accolades including Book of the Year by MOJO and recognition as a Best Book of the Year by Pitchfork and NPR. The Independent said: "There has always been something defiant about Rickie Lee Jones... a voice from a dream, elusive yet familiar, transcendent, a messenger from another place."