Little Feat will maintain a busy schedule as they transfer into 2027, because of 11 newly added dates for his or her ongoing Final Farewell Tour which started earlier this 12 months.
Tickets and VIP packages for the concert events will go on sale Friday (Oct. 23) at 10 AM native time. Extra particulars can be found on the band’s official web site and you’ll see the entire group’s upcoming exhibits beneath.
The intelligent title for the outing was a nod partly to 1975’s The Final File Album, which was expanded for its fiftieth anniversary. Nevertheless it additionally acknowledged that even when the ’70s legends weren’t planning to totally go away, they had been making a choice to begin to gradual issues down.
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“It’s an emotional time for everybody. Plenty of reminiscences,” the group’s cofounder and keyboardist Invoice Payne not too long ago wrote on social media. “The band is enjoying nearly as good as ever, why grasp it up? I take a look at it as easing into the sundown that Jeff {Hanna, from the Nitty Gritty Filth Band] and I had been discussing.”
“Musicians like to play. Bop ‘til you drop is the angle. However winding issues down whereas the enjoyable quotient remains to be intact is an effective objective, too,” he continued. “Once more, it’s not the enjoying, it’s the journey that knocks you down. So, there’s nonetheless quite a bit left within the tank for all of us. We’ll type out some enjoyable methods to let it roll!”
“It is positively not an absolute, never-gonna-play-again assertion,” the band stated when the trek was initially introduced. “This wind-down will take a number of years to perform, and whereas it does, Feat will proceed to carry out and report so long as they’re ready. It’s a retirement from the journey of touring.”
Previous to the most recent spherical of tour dates being revealed, Little Feat did affirm in late September that 2027 is ready to be their closing 12 months of touring. Extra exhibits are anticipated to be added for subsequent 12 months’s itinerary.
Little Feat Has Tons Going On In addition to the Present Live shows
Creator Ben Fong-Torres wrote a certified guide concerning the band, 2013’s Willin’: The Story of Little Feat, which introduced a broad and well-researched take a look at the group’s historical past. The surviving members of Little Feat, together with their mates and associates, participated in interviews for the guide at the moment.
Now, the saga has been introduced updated with Little Feat: The Documentary, which premiered earlier this 12 months. In response to director Jesse Lauter, they’re hoping to have the movie out formally both late in 2026 or early 2027.
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Payne has additionally accomplished his personal memoir, Carnival Ghosts: A Memoir of Life, Loss and Rebirth with Little Feat, which might be out on Feb. 16. As he informed UCR in 2023, his strategy was a bit off of the standard overwhelmed path, as you may count on.
“The construction is is a memoir, nevertheless it’s somewhat bit greater than that as a result of I interview individuals,” he defined. “If I had been left in my very own reminiscence, I would be like, ‘The place was I tomorrow?’ It is not a historical past of Little Toes. It is a historical past of me, and I began manner again within the wayback machines. However Little Feat definitely intersects it.”
“The most important impediment for a very long time was the best way to inform the story,” he shared. “I imply, there’s so many skeletons within the closet and I do not need to harm individuals. That is not what that is. It is not a tell-all in any respect. I am a artistic individual and I am nonetheless on the market creating music with an important band.”
“I am writing, I am a photographer and I’ve taken a artistic route. The one job I ever actually had was as a paperboy — and I used to be fairly artistic with that too,” he stated. “So, yeah, it is that form of guide and that form of life, like, who am I and why am I right here?”
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Little Feat 2026-2027 ‘Final Farewell Tour’ Tour Dates
November 9, 2026 — Akron, OH — Goodyear Theater
November 10, 2026 — Cincinnati, OH — Taft Theatre
November 11, 2026 — Indianapolis, IN — Murat Theatre at Outdated Nationwide Centre
November 13, 2026 — Fort Wayne, IN — Clyde Theatre
November 14, 2026 — Skokie, IL — George Van Dusen Theatre at North Shore Middle
November 15, 2026 — Champaign, IL — Virginia Theatre
November 17, 2026 — Chesterfield, MO — The Manufacturing unit
November 19, 2026 — Memphis, TN — Cannon Middle for the Performing Arts
November 21, 2026 — Cellular, AL — Saenger Theatre
January 4, 2027 — Osaka, Japan — Competition Corridor
January 6, 2027 — Tachikawa, Japan — Tachikawa Stage Backyard
February 21, 2027 — Jim Thorpe, PA — Penn’s Peak
February 23, 2027 — Rehoboth Seashore, DE — Rehoboth Seashore Conference Middle
February 24, 2027 — Morgantown, WV — Metropolitan Theatre
February 26, 2027 — Charlottesville, VA — Paramount Theater
February 27, 2027 — Charlottesville, VA — Paramount Theater
February 28, 2027 — North Myrtle Seashore, SC — Alabama Theatre
March 2, 2027 — Macon, GA — Macon Metropolis Auditorium
March 3, 2027 — Tallahassee, FL — The Moon
March 5, 2027 — Pompano Seashore, FL — Pompano Seashore Amphitheater
March 6, 2027 — St. Augustine, FL — St. Augustine Amphitheatre
March 7, 2027 — Clearwater, FL — The BayCare Sound
April 30, 2027 — New Orleans, LA —Orpheum Theater
Could 1, 2027 — Cleveland, MS —Bologna Performing Arts Middle
Could 2, 2027 — Greenville, TX —Greenville Municipal Auditorium
Could 4, 2027 — San Antonio, TX — Tobin Middle for the Performing Arts
Could 5, 2027 — Abilene, TX —Paramount
Could 7, 2027 — Oklahoma Metropolis, OK —The Criterion
Could 8, 2027 — Fayetteville, AR — Ozark Music Corridor
Could 10, 2027 — Des Moines, IA — Hoyt Sherman Place
Could 11, 2027 — Shipshewana, IN — Blue Gate Performing Arts Middle
Could 13, 2027 — Wausau, WI —The Grand Theater
Could 14, 2027 — Milwaukee, WI — Pabst Theater
Could 15, 2027 — Morton, MN — Venue TBA
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