It’s fall, y’all. Well, it is the fall semester in a three-college city like Tallahassee. Sure, it is still 129 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors, but the autumn season of shows comes back just like the students.
It will get cooler in the future, promise. In the meantime, here are 26 hand-picked shows on the way for fall 2026.
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Drew & Ellie Holcomb
Hear Dove Award-winning Christian tunes and more songs with an Americana-country twist from Nashville. Friday, Sept. 4. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Tickets are $81, $76 and $46. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu.
Comedian Ali Siddiq is bringing his The Custom Fit tour to the Tucker Civic Center on Sept. 6, 2026. Tickets went on sale June 26.
Ali Siddiq
The droll stand-up comedian from Texas spins stories about his side-hustle father, homelife and the formative years from the stage, not YouTube this time around. Sunday, Sept. 30 | Tucker Civic Center. Ticket prices range from $89 to $609. Visit tuckerciviccenter.com.
Tinsley Ellis will bring Louisianna blues to Goodwood Museum for Opening Nights on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.
Tinsley Ellis
The Louisianna electric blues dude brings his guitar back to the city for another funky bayou throwdown. Tuesday, Sept. 15 | Goodwood Museum & Gardens. Tickets are $45 and $55. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Madeleine Peyroux
The singer hails from Georgia, but she sharpened her vocal chops on the sidewalks and bars of France. She arrives with her French-leaning jazz-pop band in tow. Tickets are $50. Thursday, Sept. 24. | Opperman Music Hall. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Weird Al Yankovic
“Weird Al” Yankovic performs a concert in the Celeste Center during the Ohio State Fair in Columbus on Aug. 5, 2026.
“Eat It.” “I Want a New Duck.” “Smells Like Nirvana.” The king of song parodies holds court in concert with, bonus points, Puddles the operatic baritone clown as the opening act. Wednesday, Sept. 30. | Tucker Civic Center. Tickets prices range from $69 to $3,919. Visit tuckerciviccenter.com
Take a look at concerts coming to Tallahassee in fall ’26
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Dove Award-winning Drew & Ellie Holcomb of Nashville perform for FSU’s Opening Nights Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (Photo by Ashtin Paige)
One Night in Memphis
Soak in the sounds of what Beale Street nightclubs and dance joints must have sounded like in the 1950s. Friday, Oct. 2. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Tickets are $35 and $55. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
An Evening with Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald, a “Kids in the Hall” co-star and actor-comedian, will appear at three Southwest Florida venues in July 2025.
Kids in the Hall troupe co-founder tells backstage stories and other details about his life in comedy during this one-man show. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2-3. | Theatre Tallahassee, corner Betton and Thomasville roads. Tickets are $32.50. Visit theatretallahassee.org.
Apocalypse Neil
Let us now praise Neil Diamond, aka The Jewish Elvis. Is this band’s set list of all-Diamond tunes a full-throttle tribute to rhinestone-encrusted baritone? An insane spoof? Something beamed from outer space? Whatever the case, the lead singer of this ever-changing spectacle must be seen to be believed. Another veteran band from these parts, The Intoxicators, open the evening with twangy surf music galore. Saturday. Oct. 3. | NorthFlora Collective, 609 Railroad Square Art Park. Tickets are $10 at the door.
A World Gone FABULOUS with Adele Myers and Dancers will be part of the 2026-27 season of FSU’s Opening Nights.
Adele Myers and Dancers
A world gone FABULOUS. Get ready for an athletic approach to movement when the Miami troupe leaps north to the capital city. Tuesday Oct. 6. | Nancy Smith Fitcher Theatre at the FSU dance school. Tickets are $50. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Gov’t Mule and Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley is coming to Tallahassee for a show with Gov’t Mule at The Adderley Amphitheater on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.
The aptly named Dreaming The Same Dream tour brings the guitar-centric Southern-fried pull of the Mule side by side with the island vibes of Marley, whose father introduced reggae to the world. Wednesday, Oct, 7. | Adderley Amphitheater in Cascades Park. Ticket prices range from $65.06 to $99.91. Visit TheAdderleyAmphitheater.com
Black Violin
The Grammy-nominated duo return with singer Baxton Cook in tow for the genre-hopping Be Free Tour. Thursday, Oct. 8. | The Moon. 1105 E. Lafayette St. Tickets are $70 and $155. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
An Evening with Mark Binelli
Watch early, shorts films by famed director Martin Scorsese (“Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas”) and then hear a live interview with Scorsese biographer Binelli to kick off the annual The Tallahassee Film Festival. Highly recommended for Scorsese fans. Thursday, Oct. 8. | IMAX on Kleman Plaza. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tallahasseefilmfestival.com
The Jubilee Music Festival III featuring Tye Tribbett
Tye Tribbett performs during the 55th GMA Dove Award inside the Allen Arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.
Energetic singer Tribbett serves as the host for a variety of gospel guests sharing one stage. Say amen, somebody. Saturday, Oct. 10. | Adderley Amphitheater in Cascades Park. Tickets are $37.71, $55.63 and $73.56. TheAdderleyAmphitheater.com
MercyMe in concert
How about religious music with more of a rock edge? The members of the platinum-selling Oklahoma band will deliver a message with amplifiers. Saturday Oct. 10. | Tucker Civic Center. Tickets prices range from $49 to $259. Visit tuckerciviccenter.com
‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band
Crank up the Sousa marches and patriotic tunes when the Marine brass takes the stage. Sunday, Oct. 11. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Free. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Zukerman Plays Elgar
Guest violinist extraordinaire Pinchas Zukerman steps into the spotlight to play a concerto by Elgar with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Friday, Oct. 16. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Ticket prices range from $61 to $74. Visit tallahasseesymphony.org
Grace George
Grace George, an ethereal British artist, makes her American debut with her guitar and tape loops at Goodwood Museum & Gardens on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.
Ethereal Brit artist George makes her American debut with her guitar and tape loops. Tuesday, Oct. 20. | Goodwood Museum & Gardens. Tickets are $45 and $55. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Alash Ensemble
And now for something completely different. Be transported by Tuvan throat singing when this group makes the long trip from Central Asia to a former plantation in the South. Musical whiplash never sounded so good. Thursday, Oct. 29. | Goodwood Museum & Gardens. Tickets are $45 and $55. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Drivin N Cryin
Drivin N Cryin performs at the Amplify Athens Music Festival at Southern Brewing Co., in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, June 12, 2021. Vocalist Kevin Kinney took a moment and speak to the crowd about losing friends to addiction and said now is a great time to get clean.
Southern roots will be shining in the moonlight when the long-time rock band churns out such cuts as “Straight to Hell” and “Turn it Up or Turn it Off” to fire up football fans in time for Halloween. Friday, Oct. 30. | College Town Block Party outside stage. Free.
Carlisle Floyd’s opera ‘Of Mice and Men’
Lennie (Luke Selker) asks George (Bret Thom) if the police are coming to get him in Florida State Opera’s “Of Mice and Men.”
Florida State Opera pays tribute to its own famed composer with his musical take on John Steibeck’s classic novella. The opera department first presented Floyd’s “Susannah” in the mid-1950s before it went on to become a worldwide hit. Friday, Oct. 30. Also Nov. 1. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Tickets are $30, $15 and $10 for FSU students. Visit tickets.music.fsu.edu
Greensky Bluegrass
Think of this ensemble from Kalamazoo as a string band with a rock act edge. Sunday, Nov. 6. | The Moon. Tickets are $38.10, $44.13 and $63.18. and $60. Visit moonevents.com
Katie Skene and Friends
Katie Skene (who learned guitar chops in Tallahassee) and Friends play Opening Nights at Goodwood Museum & Gardens on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026.
She learned her blues guitar riffs in Tallahassee and honed her musician skills in California, now hear how she puts it all together. Tuesday, Nov. 10. | Goodwood Museum & Gardens. Tickets are $45 and $55. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Grammy winning rapper Common is coming to Tallahassee for a show at The Adderley Amphitheater on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026.
Common with Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra
After popular concerts with The Flaming Lips, Ben Folds and The Violent Femmes, why not collaborate with a rap/soul star with a national rep? Plus, Common attended FAMU as a student so Tallahassee is his old stomping grounds. Saturday, Nov. 14. | Adderley Amphitheater in Cascades Park. Tickets are $88.63, $73.56 and $99.91, TheAdderleyAmphitheater.com
The Revivalists
The roots rockers from New Orleans bring a soulful sound into town with flecks of jam-band tendencies. Thursday, Nov. 19. | Adderley Amphitheater in Cascades Park. Tickets are $59.43, $73.56 and $94.28. TheAdderleyAmphitheater.com
Whose Live Anyway?
Improvisational comedy and quick one-liners will be based on audience input during this raucous show. Sunday, Nov. 15. | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Tickets are $59 an $69. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Barron Ryan
Get in a festive holiday mood with this piano program of yuletide tunes. Thursday, Dec.10. | Turner Auditorium at Tallahassee State College. Ticket are $40. Visit openingnights.fsu.edu
Mark Hinson is a former senior writer for The Tallahassee Democrat. He can be reached at mark.hinson59@gmail.com.
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