Josh Ritter for Galway Arts Festival's Big Top

American singer-songwriter Josh Ritter is heading for the west coast this summer for an appearance at the Galway Arts Festival.

Ritter – who has just released his sixth full length album The Beast In Its Tracks – will play the festival's Big Top on Saturday, July 20.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 8 at 9am from the Galway Arts Festival website with a limited number of Early Bird tickets available.

Hot Press spoke to the Idaho native when he dropped by HP Towers last week. You can read that interview in our next edition out on March 14. In the meantime you can read Olaf Tyaransen's review of Ritter's The Beast In Its Tracks album here.