Platinum recording artist Ron Pope will be making his anticipated return to the UK and Ireland in January 2025, for headline shows in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester and London, with Emily Scott Robinson as support.

Ron has been a working musician for more than half of his life at this point, a journey he began when he was just a teenager. He was leaving behind a hardscrabble upbringing that shaped him in countless ways as he was visiting every corner of this country and making a name for himself with platinum-selling songs like ‘A Drop in the Ocean’.


Pope gives a clear-eyed examination of that story in his new album American Man, American Music, releasing via his own Brooklyn Basement imprint. The follow-up to his 2023 album Inside Voices, it’s an ambitious project that uses his specific experiences to ask big questions.


For a long time, living on the road felt tailor-made for someone like Pope. “And then I found love, grew up and developed a sense of home centered around that love. But America is a character in my personal story in a way that it might not be for other people,” he says. It’s a long road to that state of contentment, though. American Man, American Music reaches back to a time of humiliating gigs in Georgia bars and long stretches making trouble with friends before the complexities of adult life started to kick in. Then Pope falls in love, gets dealt some crushing losses, and starts to take a closer look at the struggles of his community, like swaths of blue-collar areas decimated by opioid addictions. 


Through it all, Pope’s empathy comes through in the album’s open-hearted messages: we all deserve to have a place to call home, we all deserve to have a shot at building a life, and we all have a family, whether blood or chosen. “This is an ode to the life I’m living now,” Pope says, “the journey it took me to get here and all the people I’ve known and loved along the way.” 

Ron Pope’s UK/Ireland ‘Neon and Glass World Tour’ Dates:

Fri., Jan 17, 2025 – Dublin, Ireland – The Workman’s Club
Sat., Jan 18, 2025 – Belfast, UK | The Black Box
Sun., Jan 19, 2025 – Glasgow, UK | Drygate Brewing Co.
Mon., Jan 20, 2025 – Manchester, UK | Night & Day CafeThur.,
Jan 30, 2025 – London, UK | The Garage