Little Feat's Last Farewell Tour stops at the Goodyear Theater on Monday, Nov. 9

The veteran band opens its final listed run of the year in Akron, in a 1920 hall inside Goodyear's old headquarters.

Akron gets the first word on Little Feat's last run of the year. On Monday, the band opens a nine-date stretch of its Last Farewell Tour at the Goodyear Theater, before heading on to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Chicago, Champaign–Urbana and St. Louis.

Little Feat plays the Goodyear Theater at East End on Monday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. Tickets run $73.97 to $474.60 through Ticketmaster. The theater holds 1,458.

The tour's name tells you why this one matters. Little Feat announced The Last Farewell Tour in November 2025 as the start of a gradual retirement from full-scale touring after more than five decades on the road, as Consequence and Goldmine reported. The title is a nod to the band's 1975 album *The Last Record Album*. The band has been careful about the wording: the wind-down is meant to take several years, and it isn't a statement that they will never play again. But the direction is clear, and every city on the list is a city that may not get another full Little Feat show.

The tour has grown as it has gone. It began in the spring, picked up a run of summer dates in February, and later added fall dates that carry it through November, according to Ultimate Classic Rock and Grateful Web.

Every city on the list is a city that may not get another full Little Feat show.

The band arrives with something new, too. Alongside the tour announcement, Little Feat released "Feathers and a Smile," a previously unreleased song written by late co-founder Lowell George, featuring his daughter, singer-songwriter Inara George. The current lineup brings together core members Billy Payne, Kenny Gradney and Sam Clayton with Fred Tackett, Scott Sharrard and Tony Leone, per Grateful Web.

The room has its own long history. The Goodyear Theater sits inside Goodyear Hall on East Market Street, and when the hall was completed in 1920, its 1,686-seat auditorium made it the largest stage and theater in Akron, according to Wikipedia. After the old Goodyear headquarters complex was redeveloped as The East End, the theater reopened in 2016 with two sold-out shows, Ideastream reported. These days the Akron Civic Theatre runs its programming, per Cleveland Magazine.

So the setting fits: a band with more than five decades behind it, in a hall more than a century old, at the start of what may be its last fall on the road. A Monday at 7 p.m. is an easy night out.

If Little Feat has been on your someday list, someday is Monday.

Sources: Consequence: Little Feat announce 2026 The Last Farewell Tour (consequence.net); Goldmine: Little Feat bid farewell to live performances with upcoming tour (goldminemag.com); Ultimate Classic Rock: Little Feat 2026 tour schedule (ultimateclassicrock.com); Grateful Web: Little Feat announce The Last Farewell Tour, release 'Feathers And A Smile' (gratefulweb.com); Wikipedia: Goodyear Hall-Ohio Savings and Trust Company (en.wikipedia.org); Ideastream: Goodyear's old Akron headquarters is ready to rock (ideastream.org); Cleveland Magazine: The Akron Civic Theatre partners with Goodyear Theater (clevelandmagazine.com); Ticketmaster: Little Feat – The Last Farewell Tour, Akron (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase: Little Feat at Goodyear Theater at East End (jambase.com)