Tom Jones is returning to Ireland this summer for two headline shows, and one of them is at a venue that has never hosted a concert before.
The Welsh legend, 85, will perform at Palmerstown House Estate in County Kildare on Sunday, August 9, 2026, and at Custom House Square in Belfast on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
Tickets for the Kildare show are priced at €76.40 inclusive of booking fees and went on sale Thursday, April 2 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.
The Kildare date is particularly notable because it serves as the launch event for Live at Palmerstown House, a brand new outdoor concert series being established at the Palmerstown House Estate grounds in Naas, approximately 20 minutes from Dublin city centre.
Tom Jones is not just playing the venue. He is opening it.
What Is Palmerstown House?
Palmerstown House Estate is a golf and country house resort in Naas, County Kildare, operated by the Comer Group.
The decision to develop the grounds into a large-scale live music venue reflects the sustained growth of outdoor summer concerts in Ireland, a market that has expanded significantly in recent years with events at Marlay Park, Malahide Castle, and a growing number of estate and heritage venues around the country.
Jerry Power, Group General Manager of Comer Group Hotels, said the decision came from growing interest in the estate as a location for live events.
“We’ve seen growing interest in Palmerstown House Estate as a location for live events, and we’re really looking forward to bringing a series of high-quality shows to the site. Our focus is to support and continue to deliver great events in a unique setting, and we’re excited about the role the estate can play as this series develops over the coming years.”
Launching with Tom Jones as the inaugural act is a statement of intent. Few names carry the combination of multigenerational reach, live performance reputation, and cultural weight that Jones does at this point in his career. Gates open at 6 p.m. for the August 9 show.
Who Is Tom Jones?
Sir Tom Jones is one of the most enduring performers in the history of popular music. He was born Thomas John Woodward on June 7, 1940, in Pontypridd, a mining town in South Wales.
He left school early and worked various jobs before finding his way into music through local bands, first The Senators, then his own group Tom Jones and the Squires, playing clubs and pubs around the Welsh valleys before eventually signing with Decca Records in London in the early 1960s.
What followed was one of the most remarkable careers in British music history. His debut single It’s Not Unusual reached number one in the UK in 1965 and announced a voice of extraordinary power and range, a full-throated, physically overwhelming sound that was immediately unlike anything else on the charts.
What’s New Pussycat?, Delilah, Green Green Grass of Home, It’s Not Unusual, and Help Yourself followed in quick succession, turning Jones into an international star of the first order.
His television series This Is Tom Jones, which ran from 1969 to 1971 and was broadcast across multiple continents, made him a household name in countries far beyond Britain and Wales.
He has sold more than 100 million records across a career now spanning six decades. He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
His accolades include two BRIT Awards for Best Male and Outstanding Contribution to Music, a Hitmaker Award from the US Songwriters Hall of Fame, a GQ Award for Legend of the Year, a Silver Clef Award, and the Music Industry Trusts Award.
He has collaborated with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Dolly Parton, and Ed Sheeran, among dozens of others across the full span of popular music history.
He also appeared in Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks and has been a longstanding coach on The Voice UK, the television talent competition where his combination of warmth, authority, and genuine musical knowledge made him one of the show’s most valued presences.
What Has Tom Jones Been Doing Recently?
The more surprising aspect of Tom Jones’s story, and the one that tends to catch people off guard, is what has happened to his reputation and critical standing in the past fifteen years.
In the 2010s, Jones began working with producer Ethan Johns on a series of albums that stripped his sound back to its blues and gospel roots and presented him not as a nostalgia act revisiting hits but as a serious interpretive artist engaging with songs that mattered.
Praise & Blame in 2010, Spirit in the Room in 2012, and Long Lost Suitcase in 2015 were all received with the kind of critical warmth usually reserved for artists half his age.
Johns, who has produced Laura Marling, Paolo Nutini, and Kings of Leon, pushed Jones toward material that suited the weathered authority of a voice that had only deepened with time.
The culmination of that creative period came in April 2021 when Jones released Surrounded By Time, his fifteenth studio album.
It debuted at number one on the UK Official Albums Chart, making Jones the oldest male artist ever to achieve a chart-topping album of new material, surpassing Bob Dylan.
He was 80 years old. The record was recorded in Wales for the first time in his career and was widely considered one of the finest albums of his entire discography.
A concert review of a subsequent tour appearance described him opening with a song from the album and reducing audience members to tears.
His autobiography Over The Top And Back was a bestseller. At 85, he is by any measure still actively performing at the highest level.
The Come Gather Round 2026 Tour
The Irish dates are part of Jones’s Come Gather Round 2026 tour, an extensive run of European and British summer dates that includes arena shows in Germany, outdoor events across the UK, and the two Irish performances in August.
The tour runs from July through August and takes Jones through Cologne, Frankfurt, Poland, Halifax, Scarborough, Crystal Palace Bowl in London, Kildare, Belfast, and Chester, where he appears alongside Nile Rodgers and Chic.
The breadth and scale of the tour at 85 is, on its own, a statement. Jones has said publicly that he would only consider stopping performing if his voice failed him.
Based on the reviews from recent tour stops, that does not appear to be an imminent concern.
How To Get Tickets
Tickets for the Palmerstown House Estate show on August 9 are €76.40 inclusive of all booking fees, available via Ticketmaster.ie and the Live at Palmerstown website at liveatpalmerstown.ie.
The Belfast show at Custom House Square on August 12 has its own ticketing information available through Custom House Square’s website. Both shows have special guests on the bill, though specific support acts have not been confirmed.
For anyone within reasonable distance of Kildare, the Palmerstown date carries an additional layer of appeal beyond Tom Jones himself.
It is the first concert ever staged at the venue, and if the Comer Group’s ambitions for the estate as a major outdoor concert destination are realized, it will be a show people will mention having attended for years.
