Acclaimed Composers and Musicians Behind the Animated Classic to Perform the Music ofOver the Garden WallLive with Special Guests
For more than a decade,Over the Garden Wallhas grown from a critically acclaimed animated miniseries into a seasonal ritual for fans around the world, returning each fall as reliably as changing leaves and Halloween traditions. Its richly textured world of harvest festivals, lantern-lit forests, and American folklore—paired with a timeless, folk-inspired score—has made revisiting the series an annual autumn experience for a growing global audience.
To celebrate its fall return,The Blasting Companyis announcing its highly anticipated“The Blasting Company Plays Over the Garden Wall Tour,”bringing that seasonal tradition to the stage with live performances of the series’ iconic soundtrack. Kicking off with two shows at theLodge HotelinLos Angeles, CAonOctober 12andOctober 13and culminating inWashington, DCat theHoward TheatreonNovember 11, the tour invites audiences to experience the Emmy Award-winning show’s unforgettable soundtrack performed live by brothersJoshua KaufmanandJustin Rubenstein, the composers and musicians who helped create it.
Tickets go on sale Friday, June 26 athttps://www.blastingcompany.com.
Beginning with sold-out 10th anniversary performances in Los Angeles in 2024, The Blasting Company envisioned a concert experience that captured the warmth, camaraderie, and musical spirit at the heart of the series. Now, that vision is expanding into a full North American tour featuring an all-star group of musicians from The Blasting Company and the renowned California Feetwarmers, many of whom performed on the original soundtrack.
Joined by local special guests throughout the tour, the ensemble will faithfully recreate and expand upon the music that madeOver the Garden Wallan enduring favorite. Audiences can expect an evening filled withbelovedsongs, lush instrumental arrangements, storytelling, and the communal spirit that inspired the original recordings.
“More than anything, we want these concerts to feel like a night spent in the company of old friends playing music together,” said Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein of The Blasting Company. “The music ofOver the Garden Wallwas born from collaboration, tradition, and community. These shows are an opportunity to celebrate that spirit and invite audiences into it—to sing along, share the experience, and keep these songs alive together.”
What began as a Nashville street band evolved into one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music composition. BeyondOver the Garden Wall, The Blasting Company has created music for projects includingBurlesque,The Kids of Rutherford Countypodcast fromThe New York Timesand Serial Productions, Adult Swim’sThe Elephant, andThe Crooked Moon. Their recent work features collaborations with celebrated artists including Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), Haley Reinhart, Jemaine Clement, and legendary composer and arranger Van Dyke Parks.
“The Blasting Company Plays Over the Garden Wall Tour” Dates are as Follows:
October 12, 2026Los Angeles, CALodge Room
October 13, 2026Los Angeles, CALodge Room
October 15, 2026San Francisco, CAThe Regency Ballroom
October 18, 2026Eugene, OR WOW Hall
October 19, 2026Portland, ORWonder Ballroom
October 20, 2026Seattle, WAThe Showbox
October 21, 2026Vancouver, BCThe Pearl
October 25, 2026Denver, COThe Gothic Theatre
November 2, 2026Chicago, ILThalia Hall
November 8, 2026Brooklyn, NYBrooklyn Steel
November 9, 2026Boston, MAArts at the Armory
November 10, 2026Philadelphia, PAUnion Transfer
November 11, 2026Washington, DCHoward Theatre
When autumn settles across North America, audiences will have the opportunity to step into the Unknown, once again, through an unforgettable evening of music, friendship, and storytelling. More than a concert,“The Blasting Company Plays Over the Garden Wall”invites fans to experience a cherished seasonal tradition in a communal setting—celebrating the music, nostalgia, and sense of wonder that have made the series an enduring part of fall for a generation of viewers.
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About The Blasting Company
It’s not very well-worn, but the Nashville street band to composer pipeline has certainly been a distinctive, if tempered, fairy-tale arc for Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein, the brothers at the helm of The Blasting Company. For years, curiosity and circumstance guided them through the streets of the U.S. and Europe as they accumulated a blend of American folk and Eastern European influences, grand orchestral tendencies, and inescapably modern sensibilities, eventually landing them in Los Angeles, where they found a home for most of it in the world of film and television. Their first and perhaps most notable venture into scoring was for the critically-acclaimed animated miniseries,Over the Garden Wall, which has become a seasonal staple for a growing fanbase worldwide whenever fall – or its equatorial approximate – is in the air. Other composing ventures include music written forBurlesque, theNew York Times/ Serial podcastThe Kids of Rutherford County, Adult Swim’sThe Elephant, and a three-album soundtrack for table top role playing campaign,The Crooked Moon. Their recent releases feature collaborations with Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants), Haley Reinhart (Post-Modern Jukebox), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords), and one of their all-time musical heroes, arranger and composer Van Dyke Parks.
The Blasting Company’s journey has been one dedicated to their artistic community and their craft. This, and the eagerness with which they explore music’s expansive storytelling potential has made them sought-after collaborators anywhere music can be of use, from Emmy-winning animation to Peabody Award-caliber investigative journalism. Wherever they’re found and wherever they’ll end up, their music continues to introduce new generations to a panoply of musical traditions, old and new, tailored totheir own particular – and peculiar – point of view.