Robert Earl Keen – Then & Now tour
No two creative lives unfold the same way, and for Robert Earl Keen, the story was never going to end with a quiet retreat. After decades on the road, with 21 albums, countless shows, songs sung by legends like George Strait and The Highwaymen, and honors ranging from the BMI Troubadour Award to the Texas A&M Distinguished Alumni Award, he might have had every reason to slow down. But Keen has always seen the open road as a beginning, never an end. Rather than closing the book, Keen has turned the page to something vivid, unpredictable, and wide open. A new chapter not so much about winding down as it is about doubling down. And if the last year is any indication, he is just getting started. Keen’s calendar is fuller than ever, and the stages are getting bigger. This year alone, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut, joined Tyler Childers for a sold-out performance at the Hollywood Bowl, and helped his longtime friends Turnpike Troubadours bring the house down at Red Rocks Amphitheater. He continues to headline iconic venues across the country, host his Americana Podcast: The 51st State, write a forthcoming book, and currently working on a new studio album. This creative bloom is not a resurgence, but a renaissance. Keen moves through it with the clarity and confidence of someone who knows exactly what he wants to express, and precisely how to shape it. Long admired for his painterly approach to songwriting, Keen writes with a visual sensitivity that brings scenes and emotions into sharp focus. His songs unfold like carefully rendered portraits or landscapes, each line adding color, texture, and depth. He captures fleeting details—a gesture, a glance, a shift in light—and transforms them into something enduring. His ability to balance specificity with subtlety gives the listener a sense of place and presence. Keen’s songwriting creates a fine line between complex story-telling and audience appeal. Beneath it all is not just momentum, but a quieter, hard-earned joy, a rhythm that comes from moving forward with purpose and the steady confidence of someone who has found his true pace. But even as he looks ahead, Robert Keen keeps his roots close. His Annual Homecoming Weekend—an ever-growing celebration of friends, family, fans, and music—culminates in the free Fan Appreciation Day concert at John T. Floore’s Country Store, a beloved Texas institution. The event reflects Keen’s signature combination of authenticity and altruism, and his enduring connection to the people who have walked alongside him throughout his journey. This year, he also led Applause for the Cause, a major benefit concert raising over three million dollars for flood relief in the Texas Hill Country. It was a testament not just to his influence, but to his commitment to the community that has nurtured him for over two decades. Onstage, Keen and his band are sharper, and more alive than ever, playing not to prove anything, but to celebrate everything. And every night, as the lights go up and the chorus swells, one truth becomes unmistakably clear: the road goes on forever, the party never ends, and Robert Earl Keen is still at the center of it all, guitar in hand, moving forward with grace, grit, and boundless imagination.
The James Hunter Six
The James Hunter Six returns with their first album on Easy Eye Sound, delivering another dose of timeless rhythm & soul. British singer, songwriter and GRAMMY-nominated James Hunter has been a legendary fixture in the scene for over three decades with his gritty voice and sharp songwriting earning him acclaim around the world. This new record features a rare duet with longtime collaborator Van Morrison (‘Ain’t That A Trip’), marking a full-circle moment for the artist hailed by MOJO magazine as “The United Kingdom’s Greatest Soul Singer.”Hunter and his six-piece band have toured the world for decades from tiny clubs to large festivals, with Hunter also sharing the stage to support legends including Mavis Staples, Aretha Franklin, BB King, Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, and Van Morrison. Whether belting out up-tempo R&B or crafting candle-lit ballads, James Hunter is a must-see artist who effortlessly draws from the depths of his musical well, leaving audiences captivated and craving more. Set for release January 16th, ‘Off The Fence’ is a landmark album for James Hunter himself for a number of different reasons. In many ways it represents his past, his present and his future. The new album is the perfect amalgam of everything that is great about James Hunter’s songwriting, delivery and outlook. It also marks a fresh start. His first release on Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound label, 2026 is going to be a big year for Hunter, striking the world with music that matters. Get ready to ride with The James Hunter Six. Socials:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJamesHunterSixInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshuntersix/
Blues Beatles
It took one band member’s love of The Beatles and the rest of the bands’ love of the Blues to formulate one of the most entertaining Blues Outfits in the world today…Blues Beatles. Their sound is intimately appealing but at the same time powerful and infectious. They always become an “instant sensation” wherever they go and perform: New York City, Las Vegas, Chicago, Memphis, Orlando, Charlotte, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Petit-Rocher, Aarhus, Randers, Trandal, Esbjerg, Brasilia, Goiânia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte among others … it’s a long list! The first version of the Beatles songs that caught people’s attention was Ticket To Ride. The video now has more than two million views on Facebook. The band has worked and reworked many different songs since it was formed, but only the ones that sound natural to their ears stay in the repertoire. Most of the vocal melodies are kept in their original form, but interpreted with Marcos Viana’s unique voice, in an unpretentious and heart-felt way. The arrangements combine blues and soul grooves that suit the vocals of the songs while adding a different feel to them. Instrumental solos and improvisation, typical elements of the blues, are an integral part of the Blues Beatles style. The band has more than 300,000 fan page followers (Facebook), more than 20 million views of their videos, and has appeared on Brazil’s biggest TV shows (Altas Horas, Ronnie Von, Rede Vida.) They have recorded two CDs, have thousands of CD downloads, 16 tours since 2017 (including 11 in the USA and 5 in Scandinavia and Europe) performing in the largest and most expressive festivals of the genre. After the release of their acclaimed debut CD, Get Back to The Blues, the band released and promoted their second CD, Let It Blues, recorded in 2019 at AS Studios, Brazil. For this CD the band brought explosive and intense new renditions on classics like Drive my Car, Come Together, Let it Be, Yer Blues, Chains, Can ́t Buy Me Love, One After 909 and Love Me Do; their takes on Something and Oh Darling bring that calm yet intense vibe that Blues Beatles are known for. Their fiery live performances showcase their individual and collective skills as soloists, so they decided to register the full energy of the performances and released a digital CD, Live in Texas, recorded at The Woodlands, TX on their 2019 USA tour, with guitarist Igor Prado.
John Scofield Electrospective featuring Oteil Burbridge, Adam Deitch & Larry Goldings
John Scofield’s Electrospective featuring Oteil Burbridge, Larry Goldings, and Adam Deitch! Through his 54-year career, 3-time Grammy Award winner John Scofield has occasionally detoured from the traditions of straight-ahead jazz, exploring a blend of funk and jazz that has led to some of his most popular projects. In late autumn of 2026, Scofield looks back at many of his now classic fusion groove compositions with Electrospective. Not intending to replicate the earlier fan favorites, he plans instead to revisit them with the seasoned perspective of several decades; culling tunes from his Blue Matter, Uberjam, and AGoGo bands – each responsible for a few recordings – as well as new material in the same vein. Scofield looks forward to teaming up with a stellar band of colleagues, Electrospective will rely on interpretative input from Scofield alum and super funk drummer/producer Adam Deitch (Lettuce), multidimensional Larry Goldings (Scary Goldings, James Taylor) on keyboards, and legendary bassist Oteil Burbridge (Dead & CO., Tedeschi Trucks, Allman Brothers). With this repertoire so frequently (and loudly) requested by audience members, Scofield is glad to have a band that will truly do the music justice.
The Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse – 30th Anniversary Tour
The Wallflowers 30th Anniversary Tour for Bringing Down the Horse The band will perform their classic album in its entirety, in sequence. Originally released on May 21, 1996, Bringing Down the Horse was a critical and commercial triumph. The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified quadruple platinum, cementing the band’s place in ‘90s rock history. The LP yielded four hit singles: • “6th Avenue Heartache” – Two Grammy nominations (1997) • “One Headlight” – Reached #1 on the Billboard singles chart, winning two Grammy Awards (1998). The songranked #58 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Pop Songs” • “The Difference” – Grammy nomination (1998) • “Three Marlenas” – Released as the album’s final single in October 1997 Influenced by a slew of first-generation American songwriters including The Band and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Wallflowers will also pay tribute on the upcoming tour to the 50th anniversary of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ by playing Petty’s 1982 album Long After Dark in its entirety and in sequence as well. Jakob Dylan, the band’s chief songwriter, remains a vital performer in American rock music. As part of three decades of work, in 2002, he inducted Tom Petty into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. In 2018, he performed in the critically acclaimed documentary Echo in the Canyon, collaborating with artists ranging from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck, Cat Power, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor. Dylan also contributed songs to several soundtracks, including The Wallflowers’ cover of “Heroes” for the 1998 Godzilla film soundtrack and “Arms of a Ghost” to television series, NCIS Los Angeles and “Nothing But the Whole Wide World” to Friday Night Lights. In 2025 The Wallflowers supported Eric Clapton on his US tour as they have done in the past for him as well as the supporting performances for the Who and The Rolling Stones.
Leo Kottke
Leo KottkeAcoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11.After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak, a diesel submarine.Kottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina, then to New London and into the Navy, with his twelve string. “The trip was not something I enjoyed,” he has said, “I was broke and met too many interesting people.”Discharged in 1964, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis’ Scholar Coffeehouse, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder, for the Scholar’s tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.)After sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey, Kottke was signed to Fahey’s Takoma label, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records.Kottke’s 1971 major-label debut, “Mudlark”, positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol, as records like “Greenhouse” (1972) and the live albums “My Feet Are Smiling” (1973) and “Ice Water” (1974) found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique.With “Chewing Pine” in 1975, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 30 for the second time; he also gained an international following thanks to his continuing tours in Europe and Australia.His collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, “Clone”, caught audiences’ attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called “Sixty Six Steps”, produced by Leo’s old friend and Prince producer David Z.Kottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College.
Molly Tuttle & Maggie Rose
Molly Tuttle is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and virtuosic guitarist who’s innovative blend of bluegrass, Americana, pop, and rock has made her one of the most dynamic artists in modern roots music. In 2025, she released her boldest statement yet,the critically acclaimed So Long Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for two GRAMMY®Awards—Best Americana Album and Best Americana Performance for the lead single“That’s Gonna Leave A Mark.” Recorded in Nashville with producer Mike Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the album marks Tuttle’s fifth full-length release and her most ambitious reinvention to date: a vibrant, deeply personal body of work rooted in self-acceptance and transformation.A highly decorated artist, Tuttle has been nominated for 5 GRAMMY Awards (including in the Best New Artist category) and earned back-to-back GRAMMY wins for Best Bluegrass Album with her band Golden Highway-Crooked Tree(2022) and City of Gold(2023)-becoming the first artist in the category’s history to do so. She is also the first woman to receive the IBMA Guitar Player of the Year award, alongside multiple additional IBMA and Americana Music Awards. Maggie Rose is a 2x GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter who continues to win over fans and critics alike. Her widely acclaimed album No One Gets Out Alive was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Americana Album, with Rolling Stone naming it one of the best albums of 2024. Billboard called it “superb” and American Songwriter hailed it as “moving” and “triumphant.” Her memorable TV performances include appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS Saturday Morning, Kelly Clarkson Show and NBC’s Today.Maggie kicked off 2025 performing with My Morning Jacket at MusiCares to honor The Grateful Dead, and also released a reimagining of the Bonnie Raitt classic, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,”with the iconic Vince Gill.Her 2025 EP Cocoon features the smoldering Grace Potter collaboration “Poison in My Well,”which was recently nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Americana Performance. Longtime collaborator Ben Tannerco-produced the EP with Davis Naish. Naish also co-wrote another new track “Sting” with Maggie, Natalie Hemby (The Highwomen) and Steph Jones (Sabrina Carpenter,Teddy Swims).Rose earned an Americana Music Association nomination for Emerging Act Of The Year and performed a special concert with the Nashville Symphony at AmericanaFest to mark the occasion.Other festival stops include Newport Folk Fest, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Telluride Blues, and Pilgrimage Festival among others. A respected fixture of the Nashville community, Maggie has played the iconic Grand Ole Opry over 100 times. A true road warrior, she has shared the stage with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Dave Matthews Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Heart, Joan Jett, Eric Church, Gov’t Mule, and Melissa Etheridge among others.Rose hosts her own podcast,Salute The Songbird, where she engages in candid conversations with her female musical heroes such as Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Susan Tedeschi, Joy Oladokun,Martina McBride, Molly Tuttle and more.
Alex Bevan & Friends – Surfing the Edge of Legacy!
“Surfing the Edge of Legacy!” Join Alex and his small crew of musical sidekicks for an evening of songs from the “Springboard” and “Grand River Lullaby” era combined with more contemporary and new works from Northern Ohio’s “Low Tech Troubadour!”. Spanning the length of his fifty plus years of writing and recording… The night will include tunes from the Lake Erie Islands, The Watersongs, Sparrow and the Covid Live Streams. Alex will weave an evening of stories and memories from the pages of his catalog into a tapestry designed to transport every audience member into a better time and place…. Yes… a breath of fresh air from the six string songsmith. The band, consisting of Leonard DiCosimo on bass, Tom Dobeck on percussion, Tim Longfellow on Keys and Austin Walking Cane on additional guitars will assist in this joyful task…. Don’t Miss It!
The Wood Brothers with SG: Elizabeth Moen
THE WOOD BROTHERSDubbed “masters of soulful folk” by Paste, The Wood Brothers formed after brothersChris and Oliver Wood pursued separate musical careers for 15 years. Chris alreadyhad legions of devoted fans for his incomparable work as one-third of Medeski Martin &Wood, while Oliver’s band King Johnson built a loyal following in the South. Withdrummer Jano Rix added as a permanent third member, The Wood Brothers haveevolved into one of roots music’s most revered acts, playing sold out shows acrossNorth America, garnering a Grammy Award nomination and releasing nine studioalbums, including their forthcoming release, Puff of Smoke, released August 1st. Elizabeth Moen Elizabeth Moen is a Chicago-based songwriter with a voice that pulls you in, threading indie rock grit through the warmth of Midwestern folk. Raised in small-town Iowa, her music pairs confessional storytelling with sharp self-awareness, earning praise from American Songwriter and No Depression for its honesty, humor, and vocal power. Her upcoming record, Fields on Fire, finds Moen writing from what she calls “the middle space,” where the truth is still taking shape. Rather than wait for closure, she leans into uncertainty, crafting songs that are raw, spacious, and deeply human. It marks her most confident and intentional work to date, deepening the emotional clarity and bold songwriting she’s known for.
Coop’s Nightmare with SG: Creedence
Coop’s Nightmare is a riveting tribute band that pays homage to the legendary shock rock pioneer, Alice Cooper. With an electrifying stage presence and a commitment to authenticity, the band captures the essence of Alice Cooper’s iconic performances, thrilling audiences with their high-energy renditions of classic hits and deep cuts. Embodying the theatricality and raw energy that define Alice Cooper’s legacy, Coop’s Nightmare delivers an immersive and unforgettable concert experience, ensuring that the spirit of the original “Godfather of Shock Rock” lives on through their captivating performances.