Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country is set to release their third LP, Horizons, on August 22nd, 2025 (Retrace Music). Led by singer/songwriter and guitarist Daniel Donato, the group brings their brand of Cosmic Country to Horizons as well as engaging in new explorations. Their new Honky-Tonk inspired single, “Broadside Ballad,” is out now.
Following a performance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival last week, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country has announced their first-ever headlining show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on August 22nd, 2025. The event will serve as a special album release show in their hometown.
For Horizons, all of the new material was performed live numerous times before entering the studio, which allowed the band to bring greater vision to the recording process. Vance Powell (White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Chris Stapleton, Trey Anastasio) returned to co-Produce the album following his production work on their previous album Reflector.
At its core, Horizons is about “finding meaning in the human experience”.
Donato comments:
I wanted the lyrics to be easy to understand, not abstract. There are many layers to the meanings and you think about it, but it’s not rocket science to understand them. Trying to maintain a human sound and faith in what humans can do really inform the actual sonics and production of the record, too.
DANIEL DONATO UPCOMING TOUR DATES
June 26, 2025 – Owensboro, KY – ROMP Festival 2025
June 27, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Park West
June 28, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Park West
July 3, 2025 – Quincy, CA – High Sierra Music Festival *
July 4, 2025 – Quincy, CA – High Sierra Music Festival
July 6, 2025 – King of Prussia, PA – Heuser Park ^
July 8, 2025 – Manteo, NC – Roanoke Island Festival Park ^
July 10, 2025 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle ^
July 11, 2025 – Asheville, NC – Asheville Yards ^
July 12, 2025 – Wilmington, NC – BAD Day Music & Arts Festival ^
July 13, 2025 – St. Augustine, FL – The St. Augustine Amphitheatre ^
July 15, 2025 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverfront Live ^
July 16, 2025 – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center ^
July 17, 2025 – St. Louis, MO – Atomic Pavilion ^
July 18, 2025 – Kansas City, MO – Grinders KC ^
July 19, 2025 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre #
July 23, 2025 – Salt Lake City, UT – Granary Live ^
July 25, 2025 – Bend, OR – Century Center ^
July 26, 2025 – Eugene, OR – The Cuthbert Amphitheater ^
July 30, 2025 – Basalt, CO – Basalt River Park – Summer Series
July 31, 2025 – Steamboat Springs, CO – Howelsen Hill %
August 3, 2025 – Del Norte, CO – Rhythms on the Rio
August 8, 2025 – Livingston, MT – Pine Creek Lodge
August 9, 2025 – Alta, WY – Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival
August 22, 2025 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
August 28, 2025 – August 31, 2025 – Garrettsville, OH – Lotus Summerdance 2025
August 29, 2025 – Lexington, KY – Manchester Music Hall
September 12, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV – Bender Jamboree
September 21, 2025 – Camden, NJ – XPoNential Music Festival
October 11, 2025 – Charleston, SC – Riverfront Revival
October 30, 2025 – November 2, 2025 – Live Oak, FL – Suwannee Hulaween
March 20, 2026 – March 25, 2026 – Miami, FL – Outlaw Country Cruise
^ with Railroad Earth and Yonder Mountain String Band
# with The String Cheese Incident – % with Bonfire Dub
