Noah Kahan is asking fans to stop stealing a street sign in his Vermont hometown, which is referenced in his song ‘The View Between Villages’.

The track comes from Kahan’s ‘2022’ album ‘Stick Season‘, and includes the lyric “Past Alger Brook Road, I’m over the bridge/A minute from home, but I feel so far from it”.

Since then, some fans have taken to stealing the Alger Brook Road sign as a souvenir. It’s unclear how many times this has happened, but it’s become such a nuisance to local people that Kahan has offered to “pay for any replacements”.

The singer requested fans cease the behaviour in a post on social media, writing, “To fans traveling to the upper valley, I’ve been informed that the Alger Brook Road sign in Strafford has been repeatedly stolen. It is a total disrespect to the folks who live on that road and a headache for the town to deal with.”

“I hate that because I put the road name in a song that some people have taken that as an invitation to disrupt the lives of the hardworking and kind folks who frequent it,” Kahan continued in an Instagram story. “I’m really sorry you’re dealing with this.”

Kahan also asked his fan community, which has “grown much larger” over the past few years, to please respect his family’s privacy. “I feel I should again remind you all about how deeply protective I am over my family’s privacy, and of the sanctuary of where I am from,” Kahan wrote. “Please don’t disturb these places or people.”

Kahan released his fourth studio album, ‘The Great Divide’, on April 24, and has since announced a world tour to go alongside the new album. He plays around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, before heading to the UK and Ireland in November and then mainland Europe. You can find all the dates here and the remaining tickets here.

He will also embark on the North American leg this summer – find any remaining tickets here. The artist has also been lined up for Bonnaroo 2026 alongside The Strokes, Turnstile, Skrillex and more.

Kahan has spoken about the themes that define his new album. “From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.

“I want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me,” he has said.

“Instead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am.

“I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.”

Kahan also reflected on the success of his hit song ‘Stick Season’ during an interview with NME in 2023. “I never thought this was gonna happen to me,” he said at the time.

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