Samantha Fish will be returning to the UK this February and March 2026, following this year’s release of her new critically well-received studio album Paper Doll.
The UK tour will see Fish perform songs from Paper Doll, plus tracks from her classic albums including Wild Heart, Chills & Fever, Belle of the West, Death Wish Blues, Faster, and Kill or Be Kind.
Grammy-nominated for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for her collaboration with Jesse Dayton on Death Wish Blues. Total Guitar voted Fish one of the Top 100 Greatest Blues Guitarists of all-time. In 2024, she joined Slash on his S.E.R.P.E.N.T. US tour.
Earlier this year, she performed on The Kelly Clarkson Show, playing her single ‘Lose You’ that was also one of the most played songs on the UK’s biggest classic rock radio station, Planet Rock. More recently Samantha Fish and her band were filmed performing ‘Can Ya Handle The Heat?’ live from Esplanade Studios in New Orleans, and you can check out the video here at RAMzine.
After launching her recording career in 2009, Fish established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world.
The charismatic singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a guitar hero and a powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed albums that have shown her restless creative spirit consistently pushing her in new, exciting, and often unexpected musical directions.
The New York Times called Fish, “An impressive blues guitarist who sings with sweet power,” and “One of the genre’s most promising young talents.” Her hometown paper, the Kansas City Star wrote: “Samantha Fish has kicked down the door of the patriarchal blues club and displays more imagination and creativity than some blues veterans exhibit over the course of their careers.”
Samantha believes her musical future is an open road. “I’m never going be a traditional blues artist, because that’s not who I am,” she said. “But it’s all the Blues for me. When Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf came out, what they were doing didn’t sound like anything that had been done in Blues before.
She continued: “You’ve got to keep that kind of fire and spirit. I’m never going to do Muddy Waters better than Muddy Waters, so I try to be who I am, and in doing that, I find my best voice.”
Tickets for Samantha Fish 2026 UK tour are available via Planet Rock, Altickets.com, and Samantha Fish’s webiste. Tickets for theEdinburgh Queen’s Hall show are available here.
