GRAMMY Award winning singer-songwriter, poet, activist and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell has released a new EP today titled Rainbows. The three-set includes her first new, original music in two years and is the title track, which arrives with a video from director Mason Poole. In addition to the original song, she has covered two Sarah McLachlan tracks including “Mary” and “Angel.” Russell will join the legendary artist on tour throughout the summer and the pair will perform together at the JUNO Awards later this month to honor Joni Mitchell. See all tour dates below and get your tickets HERE.

Of Rainbows EP, Russell says, “There is improbable magic all around us, and limitless magic in our own hearts and minds and imaginations. ‘Rainbows’ is a song about reconnecting with our own essential magic —a magic maybe we thought we’d lost —so that we can pour it back into the World. It felt right to pair ‘Rainbows’ with these two covers of Sarah McLachlan’s magical work. Sarah is a trailblazer for all women in music — her Lilith Fair taught an entire generation of girls and women that we were never in competition, always stronger in community.”

Russell has also just completed her second run on Broadway as Persephone in the 8 time Tony Award winning musical Hadestown. She took over the role in November 2024 initially, after spending much of that year opening for Hozier on his Unreal Unearth Tour supporting his arena run on all US dates and throughout Europe. She made her Billboard Hot 100 debut thanks to their duet “Wildflower & Barley.”

The accolades for Russell have been immense. Last year she was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize and named Billboard Women In Music Canada’s “Breakthrough Artist of the Year.” She has had eight GRAMMY Award nominations and one win, earned three 2022 Americana Award nominations and a win for Album of the Year with subsequent nominations in 2023 and 2024, two International Folk Music Award wins, a 2022 JUNO Award nomination for ‘Songwriter of the Year,’ and her first-ever JUNO Award win for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Russell won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, two UK Americana Music Awards, and more.

In addition, Russell has consistently used her platform to elevate, educate and inspire; curating the history making Once And Future Sounds: Roots and Revolution set for the Newport Folk Festival in 2021 and mobilizing the triumphant Love Rising All-Star benefit concert in support of LGBTQIA+ causes in Nashville - raising over $550,000 and calling national attention to Tennessee’s dangerous anti-trans and anti-drag laws. Russell has also announced a book deal for her debut novel, a memoir based on her life and the material that inspired Outside Child and The Returner.