Judah & The Lion bring The Boys Are Back Tour to the Tabernacle on Nov. 12

The band's next-to-last night of its fall run lands in Atlanta's old church-turned-concert-hall, with the new album I Am A Prism in tow.

The night before a band's tour finale is its own kind of show. The set is fully broken in, the crew could load out in their sleep, and the homecoming is still a day away. Atlanta gets that night from Judah & The Lion.

Judah & The Lion play The Tabernacle on Thursday, Nov. 12, with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The room holds about 2,600.

The stop is the second-to-last date on The Boys Are Back Tour, which opened Sept. 17 at The Mill & Mine in Knoxville and closes the next night, Nov. 13, with a finale for 4,500 at The Pinnacle in Nashville, according to Spin. Before reaching Atlanta, the band works down the East Coast through Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Richmond.

The tour is built around *I Am A Prism*, the band's sixth studio album, which Dualtone Records released Aug. 14, per the band's publicist, Shore Fire Media. It follows 2024's *The Process* and runs 12 tracks. The band previewed it with "Maybe The Best Is Now" and then "Miracle," a song Shore Fire described as finding beauty in the little moments, and later shared "As The Crow" and "Gravel Roads" as a double preview, per Shore Fire.

Expect a mix. At a warm-up show in Madison, Wisconsin, before the tour, the band played older songs from across its six records alongside the new material, Isthmus noted.

The Tabernacle is a fitting room for it. The building went up in the early 1910s as a Baptist church, home to Third Baptist Church, and its congregation chose to sell in the mid-1990s, according to the Atlanta Music Guide. Investors converted it into a House of Blues club for the 1996 Summer Olympics, held across the street in Centennial Olympic Park; the first concert came in late July 1996 with the Blues Brothers, per The Atlanta 100. It was renamed The Tabernacle a couple of years later and came through the 2008 tornado that tore through downtown and damaged parts of the park. Today it is run by Live Nation, and its stacked balconies are a big part of why a 2,600-capacity show there feels closer than the number suggests.

The 7:30 p.m. start on a Thursday means coming straight from work for most people; the venue is a short walk from the Peachtree Center and Dome/GWCC MARTA stops if you want to skip downtown parking. Check your ticket for opener and door times.

A band one night from the end of a long tour, in a former church with balconies on three sides, singing new songs to a crowd that knows the old ones. Not a bad Thursday.

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