Editing Josh Ritter (section)

== Personal life ==
Ritter married fellow musician [[Dawn Landes]] in [[Branson, Missouri]], on May 9, 2009.<ref>[http://registry.weddingchannel.com/coupledir/20095/L/R308425943/DAWN_LANDES_AND_JOSH_RITTER.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408100254/http://registry.weddingchannel.com/coupledir/20095/L/R308425943/DAWN_LANDES_AND_JOSH_RITTER.htm|date=April 8, 2010}}</ref> In a February 2011 interview with the ''[[Boston Herald]]'', Ritter revealed that they had separated.<ref>{{cite news|last=Blagg |first=Christopher |title=Josh Ritter stages Valentine's brawl |url=http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20110210josh_ritter_stages_valentines_brawl/srvc=home |access-date=February 10, 2011 |newspaper=[[Boston Herald]] |date=February 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701094834/http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20110210josh_ritter_stages_valentines_brawl/srvc%3Dhome |archive-date=July 1, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> Ritter and his current partner, author [[Haley Tanner]], own a home together in [[Woodstock, New York]]. They had their first child, a daughter named Beatrix Wendylove Ritter, on November 11, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|author=Brian T. Atkinson |url=http://www.cmtedge.com/2013/03/04/josh-ritter-tracks-his-life-from-awful-to-amazing/ |title=Josh Ritter Tracks His Life, From Awful to Amazing |publisher=cmtedge.com |access-date=2015-10-16}}</ref>

On November 22, 2009 Ritter played at a benefit concert at [[Moscow Junior High School]], his former junior high school in his hometown of [[Moscow, Idaho]]. The concert was for Jim LaFortune, one of Ritter's former teachers, who was diagnosed with a [[brain tumor]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Janairo |first=Michael |url=http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/josh-ritter-interview/3805/ |title=Josh Ritter interview - Arts Talk |publisher=Blog.timesunion.com |date=2009-12-02 |access-date=2015-10-16}}</ref>

In May 2018 Ritter revealed that he and his wife had adopted a child in January of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joshritter.com/news/#post-818|title=News - Josh Ritter|website=Josh Ritter|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-26}}</ref> Their newest daughter Moxie was matched with them through Wide Horizons For Children, an adoption organization Ritter has advocated for. Part of his ''Gathering'' tour was cancelled to accommodate for this new addition to his family, though Ritter has promised to return to those markets for another show.