10-06-2025
Minneapolis Utopia: David Byrne heads to the Orpheum Theatre this fall
Minneapolis Utopia: David Byrne heads to the Orpheum Theatre this fall originally appeared on Bring Me The News.
For the first time in seven years, David Byrne is releasing new music.
The legendary Talking Heads singer will follow 2018's American Utopia with a new 12-track album, Who Is the Sky?, which will be accompanied by a tour that brings him and a large ensemble to the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on Nov. 3 and 4.
He last passed through the Twin Cities on the American Utopia tour, playing the same downtown Minneapolis theater for a tour that later became a Broadway musical and a Spike Lee-directed concert film as well.
The new album was recorded with the New York-based chamber music ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra, which also arranged the music. Who Is the Sky? also features appearances from Paramore's Hayley Williams, Smile drummer Tom Skinner, and St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, with whom Byrne released a collaborative album in 2012.
This go-round, the 73-year-old singer will perform with a 16-piece ensemble that includes musicians, singers, and dancers, some of whom were part of his American Utopia band. Similar to that tour, the announcement says that the performers "will be mobile throughout the set."
The first taste of Who Is the Sky? was shared last week in a video for the anthemic "Everybody Laughs." A new music video of the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," starring Saoirse Ronan, was also recently released to celebrate the Talking Heads' 50th anniversary.
Byrne's tour begins in September, passes through the Twin Cities in October, and will head to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in 2026. Outside of Minneapolis, the tour's only other Upper Midwest pit stops are an Oct. 25 show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit and a three-night stand at The Auditorium in Chicago, beginning on Oct. 28.
Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 13. A presale begins on Tuesday through the list on Byrne's story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Jun 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
