March on Broadway, Tedeschi Trucks Band Books Ten Beacon Nights

Tedeschi Trucks Band will play ten nights at the Beacon Theatre at 2124 Broadway between March 16 and April 3, 2027, and general tickets go on sale Friday, October 30, at 10 a.m.

The band announced the run on Monday, October 26. It is led by the guitarist Derek Trucks and the singer Susan Tedeschi, and mxdwn calls the residency the band's love letter to New York.

The Beacon sits at 74th Street on the Upper West Side. It opened on Christmas Eve 1929 and seats 2,894, according to its Wikipedia entry. In March, it has meant this kind of music for a long time.

When Are the Shows?

The ten dates are March 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 31, then April 2 and 3, according to JamBase. Ultimate Classic Rock reports the same ten dates.

By Suite 646's own count, the run takes 19 days from first night to last. It opens on a Tuesday and closes on a Saturday. Six of the ten fall on a Friday or Saturday, and none on a Sunday or Monday.

The opener on March 16 is the band's 75th show at the Beacon, JamBase reports. The last night of the run would bring the total to 84. One more piece of Suite 646 arithmetic. Ten nights at 2,894 seats is room for 28,940 people, if every seat is sold every night.

How Did the Beacon Become Their Room?

Trucks has been playing the Beacon for decades, and not always under his own name. He joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and played its March runs at the theater, JamBase notes. Those runs became a New York spring ritual. The Allman Brothers started with four nights in 1989, according to Ultimate Classic Rock, and played their last Beacon concert on October 28, 2014. It was their 238th show in the building.

Tedeschi Trucks Band first played the Beacon on September 10, 2011. A single date became an annual stand. By 2016 the runs had grown to six shows, and the 2026 residency ran ten, as the 2027 run will.

The 2026 finale on March 28 was a big one. The band played its album Future Soul in reverse track order, and Jaimoe and Warren Haynes, both Allman Brothers alumni, joined in along with Cyndi Lauper, JamBase reports. Trucks played Dreams and Whipping Post with his old bandmates that night.

You can't phone it in at the Beacon.

That line is Trucks's, from the band's announcement video, as quoted by JamBase. In the same video he said nobody expected to reach 75 shows and counting when they played the first one. He also said of the Beacon crowd that "they show up and they want you to bring it."

Tedeschi has talked about the March tradition before. In a 2014 interview with The Aquarian, quoted by Ultimate Classic Rock, she remembered that the Allman Brothers played the Beacon every March and that being part of those residencies was always a great time.

Who Else Has Owned a Beacon Run?

Long stands at one theater are a New York habit. Suite 646 covered John Oliver and Seth Meyers returning to the Beacon this month, and the Blue Note's month-long Robtober on West Third Street is another version of the same idea. A band that knows the room comes back, and the room comes back for it.

What sets this one apart is the lineage. Add the Allman Brothers' 238 Beacon shows to the 84 Tedeschi Trucks Band will have played by April 3 and the two bands Trucks has belonged to reach 322 nights in the building, by Suite 646's count. He did not play all of them. The Allman Brothers' runs began a decade before he joined.

How Do You Get Tickets?

There are three windows, according to the reports. A fan club presale through the band's website starts Wednesday, October 28, at 10 a.m. Eastern, per mxdwn. A venue presale follows on Thursday, October 29, at 10 a.m. with the code SOCIAL, JamBase reports. General sale opens Friday, October 30, at 10 a.m.

None of the reports gives ticket prices, though mxdwn says a limited number of Platinum and VIP packages will be offered. The band has not named guests for 2027. The month before New York, it plays five shows in Japan, according to Ultimate Classic Rock, and it heads to Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado from July 29 to 31, mxdwn reports.

The Beacon has seen 238 Allman Brothers nights. Its newer tenants are now 84 shows into their own count. Somewhere in there, March on Broadway became a season of its own.