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Spring Tour/New dates added!

We cannot wait to see you at a show this spring. Here are our cities:

Drop a ✌🏽 below and I’ll send you link to tour tickets!

📍 May 22 — El Paso, TX
📍 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
📍 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
📍 May 28 — Denver, CO Yell Fire Throwback
📍 May 29 — Yoga Jam on The Rock!
📍 May 29 — Morrison, CO (RED ROCKS & Yoga Jam)
📍 May 30 — Gunnison, CO

I cannot wait to see you on the road this spring.

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

THE MYSTERY IS OVER. 🔥 Comment YOGA for link to tickets.

SEANE CORN is joining us at Red Rocks Yoga Jam on May 29 and yes it’s as epic as it sounds.

Activist. Teacher. She is a Legend.

I’ve known Seane for twenty years. I’ve watched her use her voice — relentlessly and fearlessly — for people who don’t always have one. Her activism isn’t separate from her practice, it IS her practice. And that’s exactly why it feels so full circle to be on that mountain together, doing what we both love most.

I’ll be playing acoustic music live while Seane leads what I know is going to be an incredibly moving practice. On the mountain. Together.

There’s something we all need right now. To be in a space that reminds us what it feels like to be truly inspired. Not alone, but surrounded by people who showed up for the same reason. That’s what this day is going to be.

The mountain is ready. Seane and I are ready! See you there!

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Spring Tour 2026 🌅

With @ogwailers — the band who recorded No Woman No Cry, Exodus, and Uprising with Bob Marley — opening 4 of the 6 nights of our spring tour.

🎤 May 22 — El Paso, TX
🎤 May 24 — Flagstaff, AZ
🎤 May 25 — Tucson, AZ
🎤 May 29 — Red Rocks (with sunrise Yoga Jam)

Tickets: michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #SpringTour2026 #TheOriginalWailers

Bali sunsets. 🎟️ Comment TICKETS for the link.

This song was released 20 years ago on my Yell Fire album. Feels even more relevant today, doesn't it.

Lots happening in the next few weeks:
- Counting days until El Paso for our first show of the tour

- New song "Reason To Breathe" drops May 22 — same day we open the tour.

- We are celebrating the 20th
anniversary of Yell Fire album with an intimate acoustic set May 28 in Denver

Join us in El Paso, Flagstaff, Tucson, and Red Rocks as we play with the support of @ogwailers.

New music coming. 👇 Comment BREATHE and I'll DM you the link the day it drops.

See you on the road. We will open the tour in El Paso with @originalwailers.

🎟️ El Paso - May 22
🎟️ Flagstaff - May 24
🎟️ Tucson - May 25
🎟️ Denver - May 28
🎟️ RedRocks - May 29
🎟️ Gunnison - May 30

#michaelfranti #stayhuman

Happy Mother’s Day Sara! There are so many things I admire about you as a person, and the way that you show up each day as a mom is at the very top of my list. Your presence, preparation, passion, and play inspire me every day.

Your presence and focus with Taj, our seven year old who is so deeply emotionally aware and physically energetic on level 11 most of the time, is a marvel to behold. The way you take time each day to help him ground himself and have meaningful (sometimes tough) conversations is so powerful and is a huge part of why he’s so tuned into what he’s feeling.

You are always thinking months and years ahead for the development of the kiddos and somehow always seem to have the next learning toy, book, life lesson, or next sized outfit ready before we even realize they need it. Meanwhile I’m over here just trying to remember what day of the week it is. 😆

You are so passionate about parenting, and I love the way you comfort Lua when her biggest tears flow, and how you laugh with her just as hard as she laughs with you. When she makes a giant mess eating, you always chalk it up to, “That’s how she learns to do it!” while rinsing broccoli out of her hair with a smile like it’s completely normal behavior. Which in our house… it kind of is. 😂

The way you emphasize play might be my favorite. You created a family play space with a matted floor so all of us can sit down, make puzzles, build Legos, read, do yoga, tumble, fall, and get back up safely. You never stop the kids from falling unless it’s clear they could actually hurt themselves seriously. You allow the bumps, scrapes, and tears to happen and lovingly remind them they’ll be okay. And somehow you are never without a Band Aid, a snack, or the right song needed to avert total emotional collapse. 😂

Thank you for filling our home with so much motherly love, warmth, adventure, wisdom, and care in all the ways that you do. We are so blessed to walk through life with you. I love you. 🙏🏽♥️

Happy Mother’s Day Sara! There are so many things I admire about you as a person, and the way that you show up each day as a mom is at the very top of my list. Your presence, preparation, passion, and play inspire me every day.

Your presence and focus with Taj, our seven year old who is so deeply emotionally aware and physically energetic on level 11 most of the time, is a marvel to behold. The way you take time each day to help him ground himself and have meaningful (sometimes tough) conversations is so powerful and is a huge part of why he’s so tuned into what he’s feeling.

You are always thinking months and years ahead for the development of the kiddos and somehow always seem to have the next learning toy, book, life lesson, or next sized outfit ready before we even realize they need it. Meanwhile I’m over here just trying to remember what day of the week it is. 😆

You are so passionate about parenting, and I love the way you comfort Lua when her biggest tears flow, and how you laugh with her just as hard as she laughs with you. When she makes a giant mess eating, you always chalk it up to, “That’s how she learns to do it!” while rinsing broccoli out of her hair with a smile like it’s completely normal behavior. Which in our house… it kind of is. 😂

The way you emphasize play might be my favorite. You created a family play space with a matted floor so all of us can sit down, make puzzles, build Legos, read, do yoga, tumble, fall, and get back up safely. You never stop the kids from falling unless it’s clear they could actually hurt themselves seriously. You allow the bumps, scrapes, and tears to happen and lovingly remind them they’ll be okay. And somehow you are never without a Band Aid, a snack, or the right song needed to avert total emotional collapse. 😂

Thank you for filling our home with so much motherly love, warmth, adventure, wisdom, and care in all the ways that you do. We are so blessed to walk through life with you. I love you. 🙏🏽♥️

Happy Mother’s Day Sara! There are so many things I admire about you as a person, and the way that you show up each day as a mom is at the very top of my list. Your presence, preparation, passion, and play inspire me every day.

Your presence and focus with Taj, our seven year old who is so deeply emotionally aware and physically energetic on level 11 most of the time, is a marvel to behold. The way you take time each day to help him ground himself and have meaningful (sometimes tough) conversations is so powerful and is a huge part of why he’s so tuned into what he’s feeling.

You are always thinking months and years ahead for the development of the kiddos and somehow always seem to have the next learning toy, book, life lesson, or next sized outfit ready before we even realize they need it. Meanwhile I’m over here just trying to remember what day of the week it is. 😆

You are so passionate about parenting, and I love the way you comfort Lua when her biggest tears flow, and how you laugh with her just as hard as she laughs with you. When she makes a giant mess eating, you always chalk it up to, “That’s how she learns to do it!” while rinsing broccoli out of her hair with a smile like it’s completely normal behavior. Which in our house… it kind of is. 😂

The way you emphasize play might be my favorite. You created a family play space with a matted floor so all of us can sit down, make puzzles, build Legos, read, do yoga, tumble, fall, and get back up safely. You never stop the kids from falling unless it’s clear they could actually hurt themselves seriously. You allow the bumps, scrapes, and tears to happen and lovingly remind them they’ll be okay. And somehow you are never without a Band Aid, a snack, or the right song needed to avert total emotional collapse. 😂

Thank you for filling our home with so much motherly love, warmth, adventure, wisdom, and care in all the ways that you do. We are so blessed to walk through life with you. I love you. 🙏🏽♥️

Happy Mother’s Day Sara! There are so many things I admire about you as a person, and the way that you show up each day as a mom is at the very top of my list. Your presence, preparation, passion, and play inspire me every day.

Your presence and focus with Taj, our seven year old who is so deeply emotionally aware and physically energetic on level 11 most of the time, is a marvel to behold. The way you take time each day to help him ground himself and have meaningful (sometimes tough) conversations is so powerful and is a huge part of why he’s so tuned into what he’s feeling.

You are always thinking months and years ahead for the development of the kiddos and somehow always seem to have the next learning toy, book, life lesson, or next sized outfit ready before we even realize they need it. Meanwhile I’m over here just trying to remember what day of the week it is. 😆

You are so passionate about parenting, and I love the way you comfort Lua when her biggest tears flow, and how you laugh with her just as hard as she laughs with you. When she makes a giant mess eating, you always chalk it up to, “That’s how she learns to do it!” while rinsing broccoli out of her hair with a smile like it’s completely normal behavior. Which in our house… it kind of is. 😂

The way you emphasize play might be my favorite. You created a family play space with a matted floor so all of us can sit down, make puzzles, build Legos, read, do yoga, tumble, fall, and get back up safely. You never stop the kids from falling unless it’s clear they could actually hurt themselves seriously. You allow the bumps, scrapes, and tears to happen and lovingly remind them they’ll be okay. And somehow you are never without a Band Aid, a snack, or the right song needed to avert total emotional collapse. 😂

Thank you for filling our home with so much motherly love, warmth, adventure, wisdom, and care in all the ways that you do. We are so blessed to walk through life with you. I love you. 🙏🏽♥️

We are playing @ibarranch May 30th.

If you are feeling like the world is just too crazy, lean in on the things that bring you joy…like music!

I will be playing brand new songs. Old song and everything in between.

@e_n_young and the imperial sound are supporting us on this show.

We can’t wait to see you there.

New song coming May 22. "Reason To Breathe." Most personal song I've put on a record. More soon. 🎵

Going out with @ogwailers this month!

El Paso · Flagstaff · Tucson · Red Rocks

Comment TOUR for a direct link
OR
Tickets at michaelfranti.com/tour-dates 🎟️

#StayHuman #TheOriginalWailers #BobMarley #SpringTour2026

Join me on May 29th as I join @michaelfranti at Red Rocks in Colorado for a Yoga Jam!!!! 💃🏻 🧘‍♂️

I’ve known Michael for over 20 years and we’ve done these jams all over the continent, from the deck of a battleship in NC to the mountains in Canada, to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Part rave, part spiritual revival the combo of his music, my yoga, and our shared vision of the world makes this experience uplifting, powerful, and soul stirring. You don’t want to miss it!!!!! 🙏🏼

And on top of that….Michael will be performing his amazing album Yell Fire, from beginning to end, on May 28th in Denver, and then another show on the 29th at Red Rocks featuring his new music. I can’t wait!!

Please join us. There will be so many dear friends coming together to play, dance, connect and feel the love!! ❤️

Go to @michaelfranti to find out more!! ✌🏻

I wrote this song about finding common humanity in times of war, when I got back from playing music on the streets of Iraq during the bombing of “Operation Shock and Awe” in 2004.It was inspired by witnessing the baffling complexity of war.Watching generals and politicians talk about the political, economical and financial costs of bombing another nation, the strategies of war and the propaganda to build support for it, was starkly contrasted by the human cost of war for people on the ground.

I met Iraqi civilians in their homes and US soldiers who shared with me there internal struggles and challenges they faced daily. No one I met was clear on why it was all happening the way it was or where the ending point would be but they all expressed a desire for it to end as soon as possible.

War is about using violence or the threat of it to try to convince a group of people to surrender to the will of another group or more specifically the leaders of that group.

Some wars are started in the name of liberation, policy change, human rights, natural resources, religion, land or political differences, decisions made by a small handful of leaders but the price is paid by everyday people. No matter the reason, the cost in lives, pain, and loss is something that can’t truly be measured.

I’ve been called naive for putting humanity first in my songs. I keep doing it because the idea that we are all connected still deserves a voice East West North and South.