Folk rock band Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors will kick off the Find Your People Tour on April 3, with Knoxville being their second stop the following day. The tour runs through May 18, with the final stop being at The Ryman in Nashville, the group’s “home base.”

Danielle Spiegel, a public relations associate at Stunt Company Media, shared a special feature of the upcoming Find Your People Tour.

“Drew is giving away 164 free tickets to service workers including veterans, active military, teachers, nurses, nonprofit employees, first responders, etc. for this tour,” Spiegel said.

The Find Your People Tour comes after the release of Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors’ ninth full-length studio album, “Strangers No More,” as well as the release of singles “Suffering” and “Way Back When.” The band also went on to release “Strangers No More: The Work Tapes,” which was an acoustic version of their June 2023 album.

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors also decided to record these songs on an old ‘80s tape machine, giving a more stripped-down version of the song. This effort was done by Holcomb in collaboration with his longtime production manager and engineer Thomas Dulin, as the duo wanted to show their audience the bones of the songs they’ve come to know and love.

“The journey from writing a song to making a record is always magic to me,” Holcomb said. “I wanted to let you guys hear what these songs off ‘Strangers No More’ felt like when they came right out of the oven. I always write just me and a guitar or a friend and a couple guitars. Here are the songs off ‘Strangers No More’ just like they were the day they were written. As you can see, they often evolved into something quite different than they were originally conceived. For ‘Find Your People,’ for instance, what started as a quiet ballad about the gift of friendship grew into a stomp and holler folk anthem. This evolution is one of the beautiful things about record making.”

Holcomb also made note of the large shift within the band’s recent music.

“One of our guiding principles when we recorded the 21 songs of ‘Strangers No More’ was to let the song tell us how to record it,” Holcomb said. “What that means is not to let past recording habits and sonic choices dictate how we record these new songs. I wrote this song from the well of my love of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a stanza song telling the story of people lost in their circumstances, which we as humans often have so little control of. We all suffer. It’s part of the deal, and singing it as loud as I can in the bullet of a rock song makes it feel like we are all in this together.”

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors has had a series of successes within the past year, from performing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to appearing on “Live with Kelly & Mark.” Additionally, the group also performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, performing “Find Your People” on the Igniting Memories Solo Stove float. They also performed the song on “CBS Saturday Morning,” along with songs “All the Money in the World” and “Fly.”

In addition to these appearances, the group also received several nominations and accolades over the past year. They received an Americana Music Association nomination for “International Album of the Year” alongside a 5 million uptick in listeners on Spotify alone. The single “Find Your People” also gained traction as it was their first No. 1 Americana single. The track “Dance with Everybody” has been featured in a March Madness TV Commercial with Charles Barkley.

When it came to live performances in the past year, the group was on stage at Bonnaroo, while also spending the summer supporting Darius Rucker. This was followed by a fall of both supporting and headlining The Head and The Heart.

Holcomb went on to do a solo tour of Europe in January 2024, stopping at the Americana Music Association UK Awards for a performance as well. The performances didn’t stop there, though. Holcomb also performed for their annual Neighborly Christmas Shows, then hopped right back to it with his wife Ellie Holcomb for the Feels Like Home Tour in February 2024.

To purchase tickets for Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors’ Find Your People Tour and find additional information, visit the band’s website.