Composer Bear McCreary Announces European Tour Dates
LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2026) – Celebrated composer and recording artist Bear McCreary announces a return to Europe for a 10-city tour with dates in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. The tour opens July 25 in Dublin, and concludes in Helsinki on August 7, with a spotlight stop at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany on July 31. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Wednesday, March 18, at 7:00 a.m. EDT.
McCreary, known worldwide for his work on God of War, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outlander, and Battlestar Galactica, broke new musical ground in 2024 with the release of his hard-rock concept album The Singularity. The three-time Emmy Award winner played to packed houses around Europe in 2025 with his Themes & Variations tour (which featured selections from The Singularity). The 2026 European tour will feature beloved McCreary themes, music from The Singularity, and new music from its hotly anticipated follow-up (watch this space).
Fans of The Singularity can further celebrate on March 20, 2026, with the Atmos release of McCreary’s epic hard-rock concept album.
Bear McCreary’s European tour dates for 2026 are:
Jul 25 – Dublin, Ireland – Opium
Jul 26 – Manchester, United Kingdom – Club Academy
Jul 27 – Glasgow, United Kingdom – Saint Luke’s
Jul 28 – London, United Kingdom – Islington Assembly Hall
Jul 30 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Effenaar
Jul 31 – Wacken, Germany – Wacken Open Air Festival
Aug 02 – Copenhagen, Denmark — Pumpehuset
Aug 04 – Oslo, Norway – Vulkan Arena
Aug 05 – Stockholm, Sweden – Slaktkyrkan
Aug 07 – Helsinki, Finland – Tavastia
ABOUT BEAR McCREARY
Award-winning composer and recording artist Bear McCreary began his career as a protégé of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, before bursting onto the scene scoring the revered series Battlestar Galactica in 2004. Since then, McCreary has won three Emmy Awards, including two for Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and one for his theme for Da Vinci’s Demons, a musical palindrome, and has won twelve International Film Music Critics Association Awards, including the award for Score of the Year in 2024, his second. Named the 23rd Most Definitive Bear in Popular Culture (The Ringer), he’s also been the subject of a clue on Jeopardy! Project highlights include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon); Foundation (Apple TV); the beloved series Outlander (STARZ); Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures); The Walking Dead (AMC); andNetflix’s Academy Award–nominated documentary Crip Camp (produced by Barack and Michelle Obama). McCreary’s celebrated scores for Sony PlayStation’s blockbusters God of War and God of War Ragnarök have earned him two BAFTA Awards and two Grammy nominations.
In 2024, McCreary released The Singularity, a hard-rock concept album featuring legendary rock talent including Slash, Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Rufus Wainwright, and more.
McCreary has collaborated with artists from across the musical spectrum, including Hozier, Fiona Apple, Shirley Manson (Garbage), Annie Lennox, and the late Sinéad O’Connor. In 2014, Maestro Gustavo Dudamel conducted a suite of McCreary’s music with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
