How do you react to difficult emotions like anxiety, guilt, or anger?

Many of us have the habit of judging ourselves and others harshly, drawing lines of blame that separate us from each other. But theres another way, writes internationally recognized meditation teacher Tara Brach in her new book. Radical Compassion is a way of practicing acceptance and care for ourselves and others that allows us to stay present to all that life brings and stay connected to each other.

Her main tool for cultivating radical compassion is RAIN, where we Recognize, Allow, and Investigate whatever is troubling usbe it the crippling anxiety after our first breakup or the tenderness and guilt of white privilegeand Nurture ourselves with self-compassion.

A psychologist and bestselling author, Brach draws upon her own experience with family, health, and the events of the world alongside her work as a psychologist to provide clear examples and tools for applying ancient spiritual practices to everyday life, from our most challenging emotions to our deep personal relationships. Many of her exercises draw on themes of self-compassion, loving-kindness, and reappraisal, all of which have been found to support well-being.

For me, all of Brachs books (and podcasts) feel like trusted friends I can call upon when I am feeling caught up in unhelpful, self-focused rumination or truly overwhelmed by the bad news of the world. It was a highlight of my year (maybe decade) to interview Brach about her new book. Below, she offers suggestions on the many practices we can try for self-discovery and awareness, and ways to unlock our own deep and true loving nature.

Eve Ekman: When you teach meditation and compassion practice, I really appreciate your focus on the body in a variety of different ways. Why is being embodied so important?

Tara Brach: When we reflect on what we cherish, its intimacy with others, creativity, wisdom, wonder, living fullyand all of them are sourced in an embodied presence. This is why I call the book Radical Compassion: If compassion is just mental, an idea about somebody suffering thats not grounded in that feeling of tenderness in our hearts, it doesnt motivate us to actively express our care. Radical compassion is radical because you go to the roots, because its embodied.

All of us have a kind of degree of dissociation from the body, to avoid that raw intensity that lives in our bodies. Often we hold the emotional wounds weve experienced in our bodies, our issues in our tissues. It really is a deep part of the spiritual path to, with gentleness and awareness, come into the body and reopen to what we have been avoiding. There is even more disassociation if theres been trauma versus a safe, kind upbringing where it is safe to be in our bodies. Disassociation is also amplified by being in a speedy high-tech culture. So its very pervasive.

It does take practice to re-awaken through our body. I encourage people to do mindful body scans, yoga, qigong, or other meditative practices that help us wake up in our bodies. I also feel really strongly that anyone who has experienced trauma needs to be careful to go gradually and with a healer therapist, so that they dont re-traumatize themselves by trying to be embodied. It takes a real atmosphere of care and safety.

I sometimes think of how we imagine shy, scared creatures in the woodsthese are like parts of ourselves that are in our body that we are avoiding. We need to invite them into the light of awareness. If theres something in us that feels difficult to feel, we just say: Im here. If theres fear, I sometimes invite people to sense the fear sitting next to them on a park bench, and then gradually let yourself feel how its living inside you. Re-associating to our bodies is a gradual path.

EE: Looking to the body wisdom is like discovering a different language. In your experience, is it a challenge for people to find their body in the beginning?

TB: A lot of them. And the more dissociation, the more challenge because its just what you saidtheres different language for that body knowing. It takes a certain kind of sensitivity to listening inwardly to be able to feel our body. And if our body has been a dangerous place, then that sensitivity gets cut off; we actually leave the premises and we dont want to listen. So its almost like learning how to listen carefully and use real gentleness and kindness. It might simply be to put your hand on your throat, gently from the inside out to just sense what wants to be paid attention to in there.

EE: In your book, there are many powerful visualization practices. But there are very few high-caliber scientific studies of visualization. How do you understand the unique benefits of imagination or visualization as part of meditation practice?

TB: Loving presence, for example, is a basic capacity and it can be cultivated and strengthened. In order to strengthen it, we need to find pathways, ways of paying attention that wake up our feeling of warmth and openness, and it really helps to use all our senses. The most common pathway we use is offering a loving message, such as I love you, I am here with you, that we say to ourselves. We can do that mentally, or we can do it with a soft whisper. Thats one modality. Another modality thats really, really powerful is touch. In the moments that we put our hand on our heart, theres a warmth and a connection that actually helps us to become more tender.

Then, back to your question, there is yet another modality, and it is imagery and visualization. Many different spiritual and psychological traditions use imagery and visualization, such as in the meditations from Tibetan Buddhism, among others. We take in so much information through our eyes and we think visually. So having something represented in the visual field that actually relates to a deep inner experienceits like the seed is already there, but the image helps to nourish it and bring it into its fullness. So whether its the image of a person you really love and trust embracing you, or imagining a more formless loving presence with light and warmth, it wakes up that experience.

EE: I love your description of using all of our senseswhy exclude any of them, right?

TB: Some sensory modalities are more well developed than others. If a person who is primarily auditory is trying visualization, they will be groping around. For a person thats very kinesthetic, having them put their hand on the heart is really helpful. Sometimes its best to have a person use a modality they dont use very much because that opens up other parts of their brain and sensitivity. My instructions to people are to make practices an experiment. Ask yourself the question: What ways of paying attention help me to wake up a feeling of love? And then customize your practice to make it your own.

EE: And what we need could change day to day, right?

TB: Thats a fabulous point. We know we can get into a habit of doing a loving-kindness practice a certain way, and then it gets rote and it loses some of its freshness and power. So its very good to mix it up.

EE: There are many useful practices in your book. The one that really stuck out to me was the if only reflection. Can you talk about it a bit?

TB: Theres a phrase, if only mind. Without actually saying it to ourselves, it directs our way of moving through the day: If only this would happen, if only I lost the 10 pounds, if only I could get a promotion, if only so and so would treat me differently.

We dont realize how many moments of our life, on some level, are being driven by this sense that we want life different; were hoping the next moment will provide what this moment does not. It happens both on the larger landscape of our life If only I could have the right partnerand also happens during the day, If only I could get a cup of coffee, or get finished with all my emails, and so on. This is so powerful because its a trance, were leaning in the future, were on our way somewhere else.

A big realization we can explore in this practice is that when were suffering, its because in some way we feel like somethings wrong or missing in the present moment; were at odds with reality. Thus recognizing if only mind helps us come into relationship with the present moment.

In Radical Compassion, I offer a lot of reflections to bring unconscious habits that keep us in trance into the light of awareness. If we bring if only mind into awareness, we have the chance to open our hearts more fully to the life thats right here.

EE: You are not a monastic living away from the world; you are very much in the world. How do you keep up your practice with all the demands of your everyday life?

TB: First off, my commitment to practice doesnt come out of a kind of a rigidity, or a sense of should. I actually love practicing. I love love, and I love truth, and so Im pretty motivated. My life is very demanding, so I have set for myself some guidelines that work. One of them is that I dont do technology until after Ive already walked out in the woods by the river and done my sitting. Similarly in the evening: no screens in the bedroom. So theres really an unwinding, a chance to sit and stretch and come out of virtual reality.

After my morning sit, I set intentions, such as: Let me be awake and kind through the day. And Ill build in a lot of different ways of pausing.

EE: Today, many people have never met their contemplative teacher; they only know them by books and podcasts, like me before I met you this morning. What is the role of the teacher in our practice?

TB: Teachers can be incredibly wonderful, helpful older friendsfriends that are farther on the path, so to speak. And they also can be a shadow side, where we play out all of our dependency and abuse of power. So like everything else, that relationship needs to be approached with a tremendous amount of mindfulness.

We need each other. One of the big illusions on the path is that Im a separate self trying to wake myself up. The only way we can realize our non-separateness is to realize our mutual belonging is it. Here we are, you and I, and as were exploring these spiritual questions we sense that behind our roles, the one whos looking through those eyes is no different than the one thats looking through these eyes and this heart, and that the tender place in this heart inside this body is the same field of tenderness in that other person. When we can remember that, its a far more liberating experience than if Im on my cushion with my eyes closed, thinking that Im waking up separately from others.

EE: This dovetails with lots of research that practicing a kind, helpful orientation toward others provides us with meaning. How do you make sense of two themes in contemplative practicesfinding happiness within and finding happiness through relationship with others?

TB: It can seem an opposition when we say that your true refuge is your own awakening heart, breaking the habit of thinking that we need something out there and instead finding peace and wisdom and infinite tenderness right here. Im always already here, and thats true.

The more we open to that, the more we discover that that place of refuge is really a shared field. Were really connecting with the larger belonging, its not myself that is OK. It actually relaxes into sensing we the collective.

When we go inward and become profoundly present to the love thats right here, we can also sense our relatedness and sense our mutual belonging. Either way, were still discovering whats beyond the separate self.

The more we learn to relate to our inner life with compassion and embodied presence, the more that compassion and embodied presence naturally includes everyone else. They go both ways. Its all about just relationshiprelating to life right here, relating to this life between others.

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Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin designed the humane handling systems used at half the cattle-processing facilities in the United States. An autistic person, she is often described as the voice for those who are sometimes challenged to be heard.

Grandins in-the-field research on the welfare of cattle and pigs spans close to five decades and has earned her numerous accolades, including recognition as a Time person of the year in 2010 and an HBO biopic with actress Claire Danes portraying her.

She is a prolific inventor: she dreamed up both the "squeeze box" (a calming device sometimes used by autistic people who crave touch; it "hugs" them) and a series of livestock handling devices, such as the center track restraint system.

But her engagement with McDonalds motivated to address the conditions at its slaughterhouses really brought her work to the attention of the corporate sustainability movement.

I'm totally visual thinker. When you look at problems visually, you tend to look at them very simply. If you think about them in words, it sometimes gets extremely complicated.

GreenBiz Editorial Director Heather Clancy spoke with Grandin about the collaborative nature of creative problem solving, the promise of regenerative agriculture and the state of animal welfare. The interview was edited for clarity and length.

Heather Clancy: In your latest book, "Calling All Minds," you chronicle the complex process of innovation. Your thesis is that it takes a combination of thinkers to surface and deliver on breakthrough ideas. Why are visual thinkers so important as part of that process?

Temple Grandin: Well, visual thinkers are able to see ways to solve problems, because they can visualize it in their mind. They can also see risks. In engineering-type things, mathematicians tend to calculate risk. Visual thinkers can see it. And I think visual thinking is actually involved in common sense.

We talk about using common sense, but one of the problems today is that schools have taken out all the hands-on classes art and sewing and woodworking and metalworking and mechanics. The other big problem we have is that visual thinkers can't pass algebra, but the thing is, you need visual thinkers.

I'm totally a visual thinker. When you look at problems visually, you tend to look at them very simply. If you think about them in words, it sometimes gets extremely complicated.

Clancy: But you need all the sorts of thinkers to come up with a solution?

Grandin: Well, yes, you do. Like for example, let's take the iPhone, for example. [Late Apple co-founder] Steve Jobs was an artist. He made an interface that was easy to use, but the engineers had to make the phone actually work. That's the different thinkers working together.

Clancy: You are a vocal proponent of trades where people use their hands. How can a large company better support the experiential education that we need for the development of these sorts of skills?

Grandin: In the meat industry and many other factories, there's a huge shortage of maintenance people what I call the clever engineering department. That'd be things like elevators, and that would also be a lot of the specialized equipment in something like a poultry processing plant.

And the reason why we lost those skills is we took out the skilled trades in schools 25 years ago, and these kids are just getting shunted into special ed instead of inventing things like equipment or inventing ways to improve the environment for other things. We need all the different kinds of thinkers, and right now in the U.S., we've got a gigantic shortage of mechanics. These are good jobs that are not going to get replaced by computers. The people who'd better watch out are things like the internist doctor or the radiologist. Theyre going to get replaced by a computer way before a mechanic to fix something is going to get replaced.

Clancy: You've been consulting with livestock companies for decades. These companies, these organizations have had to reteach some of these concepts, right?

Grandin: When I first started working on cattle handling equipment, one of the mistakes I made when I was in my 20s, and a lot of engineers make this mistake, is they think they can fix everything with technology. Well, I learned that technology doesn't replace management. It's just that simple.

One of the things I did that probably made the biggest difference was when I worked with McDonald's and Wendy's on implementing animal welfare systems at slaughter plants. We used a very, very simple assessment tool. We'd measure things like stunning efficacy on the first shot, falling down, cattle mooing and vocalizing during electric prod use.

The thing that you've got to figure out, it's what are the critical control points to measure. What's really important?

I'm using the same principle as traffic laws. Traffic laws work pretty well. Probably your three most important ones drunken driving, speeding and running stop signs and red lights and then I'd throw in texting and seat belts. Those would be the five critical control points. When you think about it visually, it's not abstract. It's very specific. That simple scoring system has been used around the world now, and it really does work.

I think it's hard for some people that think in language to imagine that sometimes you should just score five things

The first thing that people need to understand is you do have different kinds of minds. And I talk about that in my book "The Autistic Brain." You've got the visual thinker or object visualizer. Then you've got the more mathematical pattern thinker. These are going to be your computer programmers, your engineers, also musicians. Then you have people that are strictly word thinkers, and there are some people that think so much in words, they have no visual thinking at all. That kind of a person does exist, but they are rare.

Most people have a kind of a mixture of the different things. But the skills complement each other. We need our visual thinkers to prevent messes like the Boeing Max mess and Fukushima. These are problems I would have visualized I would have seen water coming over the seawall and drowning the emergency cooling pump.

What I've learned about the mathematical mind is it doesn't see it. It calculates the risk. I can't design a nuclear power plant, but maybe I need to be working on its safety systems.

Clancy: Assess how far has the meat industry come on core animal welfare and humane issues.

Grandin: They've come a long way. I'm not going to say they're perfect, but I've been in this industry for 47 years, and in the '80s and the early '90s, the industry was just terrible. I'm not going to defend anything they did at that time.

And then the big food safety problem [emerged] in the early '90s, and McDonald's and other companies like that got all over that. Then in 1999, I was hired to train the food safety auditors to do the animal welfare audits. Within one year, I saw more change than I'd seen in my whole entire career.

And we didn't have to rebuild the plants. It was mostly simple things. Maintenance of equipment, non-slip flooring, adding lights and moving lights to control what animals were seeing because they don't like walking into the dark and training and supervision of people.

Out of 75 plants, only three had to build something expensive. I'm very proud of that. We made some older facilities work.

Clancy: The farming sector is talking a lot about regenerative agriculture, including practices like rotational grazing. What advice would you give to farmers that are incorporating more livestock into their operations about how to do so more humanely?

Grandin: Well, I would work at it slowly. Don't get in 1,000 cattle at one time. Work into it slowly. I am a big believer of regenerative agriculture. I've reviewed a lot of literature on this. In fact, right now, I'm updating my book "Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach" for the chapter on sustainability. And we've got to go to crop rotation.

The problem that you have with monoculture, just growing the same crop over and over again, it works really well in the short term, but in the long term, it wrecks the ground and wrecks the crops, too. In the long term, it doesn't work, and we've got to be getting crop rotation.

One of the rotations needs to be livestock grazing a cover crop. We also have got a lot of rangeland where you can't grow crops, and we need to be working on using it sustainably. And some family ranchers are already doing that.

But the animals are part of the land. Three years ago, we had a crop scientist come to our animal science department to talk to us, and I learned for the first time that the very best agricultural land in Iowa and Illinois was created by herds of grazing bison. The grazing animal made the best cropland we had. We've got to start integrating grazing animals back in with crops.

Clancy: You talk about the importance of stretching children's minds as an integral part of their journey to adulthood. Do you advocate the same sort of thing for adults?

Grandin: Well, yes. Now what you have to do like with autistic kids, they panic if they get what I call, don't throw them in the deep end of the pool. There's a lot of things they need to work into it more gradually.

But let's say you have a crop farmer that wants to try working with livestock. Let's work into it gradually, one field maybe 50 head of stock or something like that. Let's work into it slowly and learn it, so you don't have a big mess.

You see, now I see it. I see it. And then we've got the issue of the crop fields don't have any perimeter fences, and then you've got issues of the cattle getting on the highway, which is very bad results. But work into it slowly, so they learn it.

In looking at guidance on stuff like sustainability, I think in a lot of cases, it's easier to specify to someone in a supply chain what not to do.

You see, it's important to have economic incentives. When I worked with McDonald's and Wendy's on animal welfare, the economic incentive was if the plant didn't get fixed, they would be kicked off the approved supplier list. That was a huge motivator. And the other thing that was good is the scoring system was extremely objective. Right up front, the manager of that plant knew what they had to do. It was not vague. It didn't have things in there like handle cattle calmly. What does that mean? Or handle cattle properly. I don't know what that means.

If you had more than 1 percent of the animals fall down, or 3 percent of the cattle bellowing when you were handling them, you failed the audit. And it was like traffic rules, really objective.

I think another thing, in looking at guidance on stuff like sustainability, I think in a lot of cases, it's easier to specify to someone in a supply chain what not to do. You don't drain your manure into the river, for example. You don't drain an aquifer. You know, this is an example of something, what not to do.

Also, in animal welfare, we've got seven acts of abuse that you never do, the automatic failure of an audit if you did things like dragging animals around when they're conscious. You do that, you're going to fail the audit. It's very clear.

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We usually hear a lot about human-level AI or artificial intelligence but little do we realize that the human mind and AI are actually quite interlinked. The brains neural network and artificial neural network possess some similarities between themselves. Both are trained on data, while the brain learns from real-life data and experiences involuntarily, AI neural networks are trained purposely with gathered data voluntarily. Both respond in accordance with the learnings they have received. Moreover, with the advancement in technology AI has begun to learn and evolve on its own which is quite similar to the regular evolution of the human brain.

However, they do have tons of differentiation as well, but when it comes to neuroscience and AI, they are way more connected than one could ever wonder.

AI is more linked to dopamine-reinforced learning than you may think. DeepMind AI published a blog post on their discovery that the human brain and AI learning methods are closely linked when it comes to learning through reward.

Computer scientists have developed algorithms for reinforcement learning in artificial systems. These algorithms enable AI systems to learn complex strategies without external instruction, guided instead by reward predictions.

As noted by the post, a recent development in computer science which yields significant improvements in performance on reinforcement learning problems may provide a deep, parsimonious explanation for several previously unexplained features of reward learning in the brain, and opens up new avenues of research into the brains dopamine system, with potential implications for learning and motivation disorders.

DeepMind found that dopamine neurons in the brain were each tuned to different levels of pessimism or optimism. If they were a choir, they wouldnt all be singing the same note, but harmonizing each with a consistent vocal register, like bass and soprano singers. In artificial reinforcement learning systems, this diverse tuning creates a richer training signal that greatly speeds learning in neural networks, and researchers speculate that the brain might use it for the same reason.

The existence of distributional reinforcement learning in the brain has interesting implications both for AI and neuroscience. Firstly, this discovery validates distributional reinforcement learning it gives researchers increased confidence that AI research is on the right track since this algorithm is already being used in the most intelligent entity they are aware of: the brain.

Secondly, it raises new questions for neuroscience and new insights for understanding mental health and motivation. What happens if an individuals brain listens selectively to optimistic versus pessimistic dopamine neurons? Does this give rise to impulsivity or depression? A strength of the brain is its powerful representations how are these sculpted by distributional learning? Once an animal learns about the distribution of rewards, how is that representation used downstream? How does the variability of optimism across dopamine cells relate to other known forms of diversity in the brain?

Finally, DeepMind hopes that asking and answering these questions will stimulate progress in neuroscience that will feed back to benefit AI research, completing the virtuous circle.

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One of Colorado Colleges biggest appeals is the location of the school itself. Whether or not you are outdoorsy, CC students are blessed with the stunning beauty of Colorado and its purple majesties every day, no matter the weather. However, despite our easy access to the mountains and natures most profound beauty, it is rather difficult for students to cut out time in their day to get outside for that hike, ski, bike ride, or walk because of our schools academic rigor. Because of this intensity, students are offered a four-day break after every three and a half weeks to finally enjoy the outside. While most students love the block break there is still a need to replenish during the block, and not just save up for the break.

Therefore, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of why replenishing the mind and taking breaks between working and studying is vital for keeping a steady pace on the block plan rather than just crashing at the end of the four weeks each month. Without breaks, students cannot refuel their energy as fourth week approaches, and then the predicted domino effect happens. It is, of course, difficult to allocate free time during the hustle and bustle of CC life: otherwise, there would be no need for this article. But there is hope.

Take advantage of the sun, even if its cold grab a coat and go outside for three to five minutes at least. The cool, fresh air and the beating sun replenishes your mind and your physical body or rather, serves as a temporary reset. And make sure to plan designated times to take this break. It does not matter how much you have or have not done. Stick with the plan.

But if going outside is inaccessible, way too cold, or impossible for any other reason, I offer a couple of other options. Still sticking to your schedule of planned breaks, make sure to stand up and walk around. When your body is in one position for too long, your muscles tend to weaken, causing you to slump over. Even consider doing some stretches. Lowering your head below your heart is wonderful for getting new oxygen and blood flow in the brain. I wrote about the following stretches in a previous article but wanted to bring them back to reiterate some ideas for stretching.

I love to do whats called a good morning stretch. Bring your arms over your head and point your toes. Squeeze every part of your body for three seconds and then let go. This stretch is simple, but it brings new oxygen in the blood, giving your body a chance to become more alert.

Bring your feet hip width distance apart and bend your knees a lot. Tuck your chin and slowly reach your fingertips to the ground. The goal is not for you to touch your hands to the ground with your legs straight, but instead to lengthen the spine and bring the chest to the thighs. Once you feel your hamstrings relax, release your head (shake yes and no), and grab both elbows. This time, you can straighten the legs if that feels good to you. Sway your arms back and forth to lubricate the spine. When ready to come back up, bring your hands to your thighs, tuck your chin, and slowly rise up. Give yourself a moment to become stable. Take a deep breath in and out.

Now that you are standing, reach both arms up to the ceiling, and take a micro backbend by arching your back. Your spine should be warmed up enough from the forward fold, but still, be mindful. If you feel lightheaded, know that it completely normal and should feel refreshing once the feeling has settled.

Do what works best for you and keep to your schedule to fully replenish the mind dont save it all for your block break!

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Kingdom in My Mind, the new album from Grammy-nominated Americana trioThe Wood Brothers, arrives today viaHoney Jar/ThirtyTigers. The band will support the new release with an extensive world tour.

Recorded over a series of freewheeling, improvised sessions, Kingdom in My Mind is the bands most spontaneous and experimental work yet. The 11-track effort is a reckoning with circumstance, mortality, and human nature. The material finds strength in accepting what lies beyond our control as it hones in on the bittersweet beauty that underlies doubt and pain and sadness with vivid character studies and unflinching self-examination. While the lyrics dig deep, the arrangements are buoyant and transportive, drawing from a broad sonic and stylistic spectrum.

Related: The Wood Brothers Play For Jam In The Van Series [Videos]

We all have these little kingdoms inside of our minds, says Chris Wood. And without really planning it out, the songs on this album all ended up exploring that idea in some way or another. They look at the ways we deal with our dreams and our regrets and our fears and our loves.

On past albums, the bandwhich features brothers Chris and Oliver Wood along with Jano Rixwould write a batch of songs and then deliberately set out to record them. When it came to making Kingdom in My Mind, however, they began the process without even realizing it. At the time, the trio thought they were simply breaking in their new Nashville recording studio/rehearsal space, tracking a series of extended instrumental jam sessions as a way to test drive the facility.

We werent performing songs, continues Oliver. We were just improvising and letting the music dictate everything. Somebody would start playing, and then wed all jump into the groove with them and see where it went. Normally when recording, youre thinking about your parts and your performances, but with these sessions, we were just reacting to each other and having fun in the moment.

After listening back, the trio realized there was something undeniably alive and uninhibited in what they captured. So, like a sculptor chipping away at a block of marble, Chris took the sprawling improvisations and carefully chiseled out verses and choruses and bridges and solos until distinctive songs began to take shape. From there, the brothers divvied up the material that spoke to them most, penning lyrics both separately and together as they pondered what it takes to know contentment in our chaotic and confusing world.

You can listen toKingdom in My Mind byThe Wood Brothers in its entirety below or stream it on the platform of your choice here:

The Wood Brothers Kingdom in My Mind Full Album

The Wood Brothers are preparing to head out on the road in support of the new LP. Their tour will begin on January 29th atRams Head Livein Baltimore, MD ahead of a two-night run at New YorksWebster Hall on January 30th and 31st.

See below for a full list of upcoming dates. For more information and ticketing details, head to the bands website.

The Wood Brothers 2020 Tour Dates

1/29 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live ^1/30 New York, NY Webster Hall ^1/31 New York, NY Webster Hall ^2/1 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore ^2/3 Toronto, Canada Mod Club Theatre ^ (Sold Out)2/5 Rochester, NY Kodak Center ^2/6 Burlington, VT Flynn Center for the Performing Arts ^2/7 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall ^2/8 Albany, NY Palace Theatre ^2/9 State College, PA The State Theatre ^2/11 McKees Rocks, PA Roxian Theatre ^2/12 Richmond, VA The National ^2/13 Chattanooga, TN Walker Theatre ^2/14 Nashville, TN The Ryman ^2/27 3/1 Punta Cana, DR Avett Brothers at the Beach (Sold Out)3/4 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom *3/5 Los Angeles, CA The Regent *3/6 Santa Barbara, CA Campbell Hall *3/7 Oakland, CA Fox Theater *3/8 Eureka, CA Arkley Center for the Performing Arts *3/10 Eugene, OR McDonald Theater *3/11 Kirkland, WA Kirkland Performance Center *3/12 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom *3/13 Vancouver, BC Imperial *4/2 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre4/3 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre4/4 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre4/5 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theatre4/7 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre4/8 Columbus, OH Southern Theatre4/9 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel4/10 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel4/11 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel5/22 Chillicothe, IL Summer Camp Music Festival5/29 Charleston, SC Spoleto Festival6/4-6 Oak Hill, WV Mountain Music Festival6/27 Laytonville, CA Black Oak Ranch

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