Tab Benoit and Bonerama bring blues and brass to Infinity Hall in Norfolk

The Louisiana guitarist's winter run with the New Orleans trombone band stops in the 320-capacity Norfolk room on Thursday, Dec. 17.

There's a particular kind of December night in the hills: dark by five, cold enough to see your breath on the way in. It's a good night to be inside a small hall while somebody plays swamp blues loud. Tab Benoit is providing exactly that this year.

Benoit announced Thursday, Dec. 17 at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Connecticut, on Oct. 28, with Bonerama as special guest. The show starts at 8 p.m. The room holds 320, and tickets go through Infinity Hall directly.

The Norfolk night is one stop on a tight East Coast run in December. Venue pages show the Benoit-and-Bonerama bill starting at the Beacon Theatre in Hopewell, Virginia on Dec. 3. The tour heads north through the month and wraps at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 19. Infinity Hall's other room, in Hartford, has its own Tab Benoit with special guest Bonerama night a week earlier, on Dec. 10. Norfolk is the smaller, closer-in version of the same show.

The tour goes by two names, and both tell you what to expect. The Colonial Theatre bills it as the Blues and Brass Winter Tour, and Benoit's own ticketing calls it the Soul of the Swamp Tour 2026. Put together, they describe the night: Benoit's guitar and voice, rooted in Louisiana, and a brass band to lift it.

Blues and brass, swamp and horn section, in a room that holds 320.

Bonerama are a natural partner for that. They're a New Orleans band built around trombones, the kind of group that can play a second-line groove one minute and a rock riff the next. With a guitar player who lives in the swamp-blues tradition, the combination should make a big sound for a room this size. Expect it to fill every corner.

That's really the case for driving to Norfolk instead of waiting for a bigger stage. On this run, Benoit and Bonerama are also playing theatres, and the Hartford night happens the week before. But 320 people is about as close as you'll get to this bill. Infinity Hall is a listening room where the stage is right there and the sound doesn't have far to travel. For blues, that matters: the bends, the growl, the space between notes all come through.

For Berkshires readers, it's a Thursday a week before Christmas. That's a busy week, but this is the kind of show that makes the season feel like something other than errands. A small room with one show on the calendar doesn't leave much margin, so if you're going, buy now through Infinity Hall and check the JamBase listing for the details.

Then plan the drive, leave a little early, and get in out of the cold.

Sources: Tab Benoit with special guest Bonerama — Infinity Music Hall & Bistro (infinityhall.com); Tab Benoit w/ Bonerama Blues and Brass Winter Tour — The Colonial Theatre (thecolonialtheatre.com); Tab Benoit — Brooklyn Bowl, Saturday, December 19th, 2026 (brooklynbowl.com); Tab Benoit tickets — Beacon Theatre (Ticketsauce) (towertheatre.ticketsauce.com); Infinity Hall — tickets (infinityhall.com); Tab Benoit at Infinity Hall — JamBase (jambase.com)