Kitchen Dwellers book a February night at the Pub Station Ballroom

The Montana bluegrass band's newly announced 2027 winter run brings them to Billings on Thursday, Feb. 25, with North Fork Crossing opening.

February in Billings is long, cold and short on reasons to leave the house. Kitchen Dwellers just gave you one.

Kitchen Dwellers will play the Pub Station Ballroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2027, with North Fork Crossing opening. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are on sale through eTix. The ballroom holds about 1,000.

The date arrived on Oct. 20 as part of the band's 2027 Winter Tour announcement, a run that keeps them in their home state of Montana and takes them through the Southeast, bracketed by two previously announced appearances at Jam Cruise and WinterWonderGrass Steamboat (JamBase). In other words, this isn't a band passing through Montana on the way somewhere else. Home dates are a feature of the tour, not a stopover.

For anyone who hasn't caught them: Kitchen Dwellers are a Montana bluegrass band that has spent years pushing string-band music toward the long-form, improvising side of the jam world. Their most recent full-length, *Seven Devils*, was their fourth studio album, released in 2024, and they marked it with a release party in Bozeman (Live for Live Music). Before that came *The Crow and the Raven*, a record that took its shape from Dante's epic voyage (Grateful Web). They've also stepped onto bigger stages lately, including a headline night at the Ryman Auditorium (Grateful Web) — which makes a 1,000-cap room back home feel like a good deal.

Home dates are a feature of the tour, not a stopover.

The room fits the band. The Pub Station sits at 2502 First Avenue North downtown, in a renovated Greyhound bus station (Visit Billings). It's owned by 11:11 Entertainment, which added the ballroom in a 2017 expansion (Montana Press), and since then it's become the city's go-to for touring acts too big for a bar and too small for the arena. A packed Thursday night there with a picking band in full flight is about as good as Billings winters get.

When to buy: now is reasonable. Tickets are already on sale, and with the band's Montana following and only a handful of in-state dates on the winter run, there's no upside in waiting until the week of. Pick them up, put Feb. 25 on the calendar, and give yourself something to look forward to on the far side of the holidays.

Bring a warm coat for the walk to the car. You won't need it inside.

Sources: Kitchen Dwellers Lock In 2027 Winter Tour Dates (JamBase) (jambase.com); Kitchen Dwellers Seven Devils album release party, Bozeman (Live for Live Music) (liveforlivemusic.com); Kitchen Dwellers Share New Album Inspired by Dante's Epic Voyage (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Kitchen Dwellers announce headlining appearance at the Ryman Auditorium (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Unique Meeting Spaces (Visit Billings) (visitbillings.com); All Access Pass: The Pub Station (Montana Press) (montanapress.net); Tickets – eTix (etix.prf.hn); JamBase listing (jambase.com)