Faun bring their medieval pagan-folk show to the Boulder Theater on April 23

The German band's 2027 USA & Canada tour stops on Fourteenth Street for a Friday-night show, with hurdy-gurdy, harps and drums in an 850-seat room.

Picture bagpipes, frame drums and a hurdy-gurdy filling a historic downtown theater on a spring Friday night. Faun, the German band that has spent a quarter-century reworking medieval and pagan folk for modern audiences, plays the Boulder Theater on Friday, April 23, 2027. The show starts at 8:30 p.m., and tickets run $35 to $89.99 through Tixr. The date was announced Oct. 20.

Boulder is part of Faun's USA & Canada Tour 2027, which runs through April. Listings show the band playing big rooms in both countries: the Howard Theatre in Washington, Town Hall in New York, the Somerville Theatre outside Boston, Théâtre Corona in Montreal, the Opera House in Toronto, the Regent Theater in Los Angeles and the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, according to the tour's festival listing. Boulder is one of the few stops between the coasts, and at 850 capacity it's one of the more intimate rooms on the run.

If you don't know Faun, here's the short version. Wikipedia) places the band in *Mittelalter* music, a German style that mixes medieval folk with the energy and production of folk-metal and electronic music, though Faun lean more folk than metal. Their records draw on old ballads, myth and seasonal ritual, and they play a lot of instruments you won't see at most shows. Belgian folklore site Trolls et Légendes marked the band's 25th anniversary with a long look at its "medieval fusion," which is about the right label for it.

At 850 seats, this is about as close as Faun gets to a living-room show.

North America has been getting more of Faun lately. The band toured here in 2024, came back in 2025 with a run billed as the Hex Tour that reached Austin, Dallas and Lawrence, Kansas, and released "Tamlin and the Fairy Queen," a new single named after the old Scottish ballad, ahead of one of its North American runs.

The room helps. The Boulder Theater's seated balcony and open floor give a show like this space for both: you can sit up top and take in the full spread of instruments, or stand downstairs and sway along with the drums. An 8:30 start on a Friday means time for dinner on Pearl Street before you walk over.

Tickets are on sale now through Tixr. April is a long way off, but an 850-capacity stop on a tour that elsewhere plays Town Hall and the Regent tends to get attention quickly. Lock it in, and maybe dust off your cloak.

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