Ringo Starr performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on 14 January 2025.
It was the first of two consecutive nights at the Ryman, in support of Starr’s 21st solo studio album Look Up. Tickets cost $79.50-179.50.
Starr previously performed at the Ryman Auditorium on 7 July 2012, 18 and 19 June 2016, 7 and 8 August 2019, and 24 September 2023.
This was not an All-Starr Band show. Starr’s backing band was Daniel Tashian (guitar), David Mansfield (guitar, violin), Paul Franklin (steel guitar), Mike Rojas (keyboards), Dennis Crouch (double bass), and Jim Keltner (drums). Guest performers included Jack White, Molly Tuttle, Sheryl Crow, Mickey Guyton, Larkin Poe, Billy Strings, The War And Treaty, Jamey Johnson, Rodney Crowell, Sarah Jarosz, Brenda Lee, and Emmylou Harris.
Both nights at the Ryman were filmed for later broadcast as Ringo & Friends at the Ryman on 10 March 2025 on CBS. The program was produced by Starr, T Bone Burnett, and Van Toffler.
There is not a single person in the world who has generated more goodwill than Ringo Starr, and I write this without hyperbole. On Jan. 14 and 15, an extraordinary group of artists came together to help demonstrate that at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. Ringo has been singing and playing country music since before he joined The Beatles, and many, if not most, of his recordings with that band were country songs – ‘Matchbox’, ‘Honey Don’t’, ‘Act Naturally’, ‘What Goes On’, ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ and even ‘Octopus’s Garden’ is a country song. We don’t know which country, but a country song, nevertheless. Nashville is a town full of extraordinary musicians, and a killer band of some of Nashville’s most extraordinary musicians accompanied Ringo and the rest of the artists.
Concert setlist
- ‘Matchbox’ (with Jack White)
- ‘It Don’t Come Easy’
- ‘Time On My Hands’
- ‘Octopus’s Garden’ (with Molly Tuttle)
- ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ (with Jack White)
- ‘Thankful’ (with Larkin Poe)
- ‘Honey Don’t’ (with Billy Strings)
- ‘Without Her’ (with The War And Treaty)
- ‘I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’ (with Sheryl Crow and Molly Tuttle)
- ‘Boys’ (with Sheryl Crow, Molly Tuttle, and Larkin Poe)
- ‘Have You Seen My Baby’ (with Jamey Johnson)
- ‘You Don’t Know Me At All’ (with Mickey Guyton)
- ‘Act Naturally’ (with Rodney Crowell and Sarah Jarosz)
- ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ (with Larkin Poe)
- ‘What Goes On’ (with Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings)
- ‘Look Up’ (with Molly Tuttle)
- ‘Photograph’ (with Billy Strings)
- ‘Yellow Submarine’ (with Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Brenda Lee, Billy Strings, Jack White, Molly Tuttle, Larkin Poe, Jamey Johnson, Sarah Jarosz, Rodney Crowell, Mickey Guyton)
- ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ (with Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Brenda Lee, Billy Strings, Jack White, Molly Tuttle, Larkin Poe, Jamey Johnson, Sarah Jarosz, Rodney Crowell, Mickey Guyton)