Dropkick Murphys Announce
For The People…In The Pit Tour
St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Celebration / Band’s 30th Birthday Party
March 13, 14 & 15 At MGM Music Hall At Fenway And
March 17 At Citizens House Of Blues In Boston
New Album For The People
Physical LP & CD Editions Out October 10
With 5 Bonus Tracks
Band Launches Fall European Tour
October 15 In Milan, Italy With Frank Turner & Haywire
Dropkick Murphys have announced the dates and venues for their 2026 St. Patrick’s Day weekend celebration in Boston, which is also the band’s 30th birthday party. Part of their upcoming For The People…In The Pit Tour, the dates include March 13, 14 and 15, 2026 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway and March 17 at Citizens House Of Blues. March 14 includes a special family-friendly afternoon mini-concert and meet & greet at 2:00 PM, also atMGM Music Hall at Fenway, which benefits the band’s charitable foundation, The Claddagh Fund. For this afternoon show, each adult ticket buyer can bring two kids under 13 for free.
Tickets for the Boston Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day 2026 shows go on sale this Friday, October 10 at 10:00 AM ET at www.DropkickMurphys.com.
Full dates for the 2026 For The People…In The Pit Tour will be announced soon along with support acts for the Boston shows. Prior to the St. Patrick’s Day hometown shows, Dropkick Murphys head to Europe for a fall headlining tour with Frank Turner and Haywire that kicks off October 15 in Milan, Italy. Find all tour dates and more info at: https://dropkickmurphys.com/tour/.
On October 10, Dropkick Murphys will also release physical CD and vinyl versions of their latest album, For The People, which follows the album's July 4 digital release (via the band’s Dummy Luck Music / Play It Again Sam). The CD and vinyl releases will include 5 bonus songs:
Dropped On My Head
Take Your Bow
Straight Edge (I Liked You Better)
A Hero Among Many
Sirens
For The People also includes the following album track list, and is available now on streaming platforms:
2. Longshot (feat. The Scratch)
3. The Big Man
4. Chesterfields And Aftershave
5. Bury The Bones (feat. The Mary Wallopers)
6. Kids Games
7. Sooner Kill ‘Em First
8. Fiending For The Lies
9. Streetlights
10. School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)
11. The Vultures Circle High (feat. Al Barr)
12. One Last Goodbye “Tribute To Shane” (feat. The Scratch)
Preorder For The People CD and vinyl (available in different color variants) here: https://dropkickmurphys.store. Stream For The People via all platforms here: http://bit.ly/47aekxJ
For The People shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, and does so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys’ earliest punk rock roots. For The People is more than a title. It’s a heartfelt stance, a declaration of who this band is–and who they’ve always been.
While on tour supporting For The People, Dropkick Murphys have continued to advocate for workers’ rights and human rights--as they have done for their entire 29+ year career--with surprise appearances at many picket lines across the U.S. to support unions fighting for fair wages and better contracts.
The band and the album have received support from media outlets across the spectrum, including The Atlantic (Ken Casey interview with editor Jeffrey Goldberg), MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber, MeidasTouch Network, CNN, Rolling Stone, SPIN.com, NPR (WBUR & WGBH), Kerrang!, Consequence, Stereogum, Guitar World, BrooklynVegan, Billboard, Boston Globe, Boston Herald and many more.
The For The People…In The Pit Tour St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Celebration shows are as follows:
March 13, 2026 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
March 14, 2026 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
March 14, 2026 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway (2:00 PM mini-concert and meet & greet)
March 15, 2026 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
March 17, 2026 - Boston, MA - Citizens House Of Blues
Dropkick Murphys are:
Ken Casey (vocals)
Tim Brennan (guitars, tin whistle, accordion, piano, vocals)
Jeff DaRosa (guitars, banjo, mandolin, vocals)
Matt Kelly (drums, percussion, vocals)
James Lynch (guitars, vocals)
Kevin Rheault (bass)
Campbell Webster (bagpipes and Uilleann pipes)
For more on Dropkick Murphys, visit:
Website: www.DropkickMurphys.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DropkickMurphys
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dropkickmurphys
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/dropkickmurphys
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DropkickMurphys
YouTube: www.youtube.com/DropkickMurphys
“For the People...is a powerful and invigorating call to action designed to incite awareness and reclaim the power of the people."
– SPIN
“…the Celtic punk legends are in reeling, anthem-filled form, bolstered by their trademark gang vocal hooks. It’s classic Murphys – a band with nothing left to prove, but much still to offer."
– Kerrang!
“Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have been making extremely fun and fired-up Celtic punk for nearly 30 years, and they aren’t slowing down anytime soon.”
– Stereogum
About Dropkick Murphys: Dropkick Murphys proudly remain Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, the boys have created the kind of music that’s meant to be chanted at last call, in packed arenas, and during the fourth quarter, third period, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. Their celebrated discography includes four consecutive Billboard top 10 album debuts (Turn Up That Dial, 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory, Signed and Sealed in Blood, Going Out In Style), along with 2005’s Certified-Gold album The Warrior’s Code featuring the double platinum classic “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.” Whether you caught a legendary gig at The Rathskeller (The Rat) under Kenmore Square, found the band by taking the T to Newbury Comics to cop Do Or Die in ’98, discovered them in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning The Departed, or saw ‘em throw down at Coachella (or one of hundreds of other festivals), you’ve become a part of their extended family. Dropkick Murphys’ music has generated half-a-billion streams, they’ve quietly moved 8 million-plus units worldwide and the band has sold out gigs on multiple continents. Dropkick Murphys' official charity, The Claddagh Fund, has raised over $20 million to support non-profit organizations that are focused on children, veterans and addiction recovery. In 2020, the band was one of the first to embrace streaming performances, starting with their Streaming Up From Boston St. Patrick’s Day virtual performance. It was followed by their landmark Streaming Outta Fenway livestream, which drew more than 5.9 million viewers and held the #3 spot on Pollstar’s “Top 2020 Live Streams” chart. Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021...Still Locked Down, was #1 on Pollstar’s Livestream chart for the week ending March 22, 2021, logging over 1 million views. Dropkick Murphys returned in 2022 with their first-ever all-acoustic album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music / Play It Again Sam), and seated theater tour. This Machine Still Kills Fascists--and their follow-up album Okemah Rising--breathe musical life into mostly unpublished lyrics by the legendary Woody Guthrie, curated for the band by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie. Dropkick Murphys’ new album For The People rises to its moment: an expression of humanity at a time of relentless dehumanization, a promise of hope in an era fueled by fear-mongering, a declaration of solidarity in an age of disunion, a defiant rebuttal to the charlatans and demagogues who seek to divide us for their own power and profit.