Lotus brings Moon Hooch's Michael Wilbur to Volcanic Theatre Pub on Jan 30

The instrumental jam-electronic band's winter 2027 run reaches Bend the night after Seattle. The room holds 250.

Out on Century Drive, past the turnoff to the mountain, Bend's best-loved small room will have a jamband with a saxophone in the middle of winter. Lotus plays Volcanic Theatre Pub on Saturday, Jan 30, 2027. Michael Wilbur of Moon Hooch is with them on the tour.

The show was announced Oct 14. Tickets are on sale through the venue's Tixr page. Volcanic holds about 250 people, which is tiny for a band that headlines theaters elsewhere. That's the whole appeal of this date, and it's also why you shouldn't wait to buy.

The Bend stop is part of Lotus's winter 2027 tour: 17 dates from Jan 21 to Feb 13, with Wilbur on the headlining dates. The night before, they play Nectar Lounge in Seattle, so Bend gets them still warm from a Friday show, on the West Coast leg of the run.

Wilbur isn't a random add. In Moon Hooch, the Brooklyn band where he and Wenzl McGowen play saxophones over drummer Cyzon Griffin, he has spent years making horns behave like synthesizers. Lotus fans already got a preview: he sat in with the band at Summerdance in Ohio in August 2025, on "Arupa" and "Cut Dick." The pairing makes sense on paper. Lotus is an instrumental four-piece working the space between live guitar, bass, drums and keys and warped samples, modular synths and electronic beats. A saxophonist used to both worlds can step into that without anyone having to explain it.

That's also the sound behind *Rise of the Anglerfish*, the album the band toured this year, a record built around light and dark. Expect material from it alongside the older songs longtime fans come for.

Now the room. Volcanic Theatre Pub sits at 70 SW Century Drive, next door to GoodLife Brewing. It's an all-ages theater that books live music, theater, film and comedy, and *The Source* readers have voted it Bend's best indoor music venue more than once. It's the kind of place where a band that fills bigger halls in other cities ends up close enough to see the setlist taped to the floor.

A band that fills theaters elsewhere, in a room where you can read the setlist taped to the floor.

Know before you go: it's a Saturday in late January, so watch the forecast on Century Drive and leave extra time if it snows. The room is all ages. Lotus usually plays two long sets, so eat first.

Winter in Bend usually means the mountain. On Jan 30, it means a crowd of 250, a saxophone, and a band that knows how to fill a long night.

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