Tally Hall come home: two nights at the Michigan Theatre, their first Ann Arbor shows since 2010

The band that formed in Ann Arbor in 2002 and reunited this year plays the Michigan Theatre on April 16 and 17, 2027.

The last time Tally Hall played Ann Arbor, it was a Tuesday in March 2010 at The Blind Pig. Next spring they come back to a room more than a few sizes bigger, for two nights. Tally Hall play the Michigan Theatre on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17, 2027, at 8 p.m. both nights. The shows were announced Oct. 29.

For this town, that's a homecoming. According to Wikipedia's entry on the band, Tally Hall formed in Ann Arbor in December 2002. They were publicly active until the end of their Good & Evil tour in 2011, and then went quiet for a long stretch. That changed this year. After a month-long social media campaign, the band officially announced their reunion in 2026, the same entry says.

What's changed since. The 2010 show came during a spring tour the band's own site covered at the time (Hidden in the Sand). The Blind Pig is a club. The Michigan Theatre holds 1,700, and the band have booked it twice. That jump says a lot about how the audience grew while the band was away. Sixteen years is long enough for fans who weren't old enough to get into a club in 2010 to find the records, and for the people who were there to want to bring them.

There's also something right about the room. A band from Ann Arbor coming back after a long silence to the downtown theater, rather than a club or an arena out of town, is about as fitting a return as the city offers.

Sixteen years after The Blind Pig, two nights at the Michigan Theatre.

Why two nights. Booking two consecutive nights in a 1,700-seat room usually means the promoter expects demand, and that the band wants to play to the town rather than just pass through it. If you're picking a night, Friday has the energy of an opening night, and Saturday is the one where the band have already played the room once and know how it sounds.

What to expect. The announcements don't say yet what the set will look like or whether there's an opener, so watch the ticket pages for details. What's certain is the setting: home crowd, a theater with history, and a band back after a long time away.

Tickets. Both nights are on Ticketmaster: Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17. For a reunion this anticipated, it's safest to assume they'll go fast and plan around that.

Ann Arbor waited sixteen years for this. Pick a night, or both, and get your tickets sorted before April.

Sources: Tally Hall – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Tally Hall’s Spring 2010 Tour – Hidden in the Sand (hiddeninthesand.com); Tally Hall, Ann Arbor, Apr 16, 2027 – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com); Tally Hall, Ann Arbor, Apr 17, 2027 – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com); Tally Hall at Michigan Theatre – JamBase (jambase.com)