Lake Street Dive books the Alabama Theatre for March 3 on the 'What About Flamingos?' tour

The band's ninth album comes out in February. Two weeks later, Birmingham gets one of the first 15 dates of the tour, in a 2,500-seat room, with Philly funk band Snacktime opening.

Two weeks after Lake Street Dive's new record comes out, the band will be playing it in downtown Birmingham. That's about as close to opening night as a mid-sized city gets.

Lake Street Dive plays the Alabama Theatre on Wednesday, March 3, 2027, at 7 p.m., with Snacktime opening. The date was announced Oct. 23, and tickets are on Ticketmaster. The Alabama Theatre holds 2,500.

The tour is built around *What About Flamingos?*, the band's ninth album, which JamBase reports is due Feb. 19, 2027, on the band's own label, Dive Not Drive Records. The first leg is a 15-date run from Feb. 26 to March 21, so Birmingham lands in the first week of the tour. That's early enough that the new songs will still be fresh for the band and the crowd alike. The leg wraps in Detroit, Louisville and Peoria, Ill., on March 19–21. On either side of Birmingham are stops like Omaha's Steelhouse on Feb. 27 and The Truth in Nashville on March 5.

When to get tickets: presales for participating venues began Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m. local time, according to JamBase. If you're still waiting, check the Ticketmaster link for general on-sale availability now. Don't count on finding seats at the door four months from now.

Lake Street Dive's sound mixes country, indie and folk, with a lot of soul in the singing. That's the right fit for a seated room. The songs are built on harmonies and a rhythm section that swings, and they come across best when the crowd can hear every part. A 2,500-seat theater is a big step up from a bar, but still small enough that you can see the band's faces from the balcony. An indoor theater on a weeknight in March, two weeks after release day, is the right room for an album like this.

The opener is worth showing up for, too. Snacktime is a Philadelphia-based funk band, and it opens every date on the leg except Greenville, S.C., on March 6, which is billed as "An Evening With Lake Street Dive." So Birmingham gets the full two-band bill. Plan to be in your seat before 7.

Birmingham lands in the first week of the tour, early enough that the new songs will still be fresh.

It's a Wednesday, so this is a work-night show. Get dinner downtown, plan your parking and expect the album to be in heavy rotation by the time the band arrives. The record will have been out for about two weeks by then. Long enough to learn the words, but not so long that you've stopped listening to it.

Sources: Lake Street Dive Lines Up Winter 2027 Album Release Tour — JamBase (jambase.com); Lake Street Dive at Alabama Theatre — JamBase (jambase.com); Lake Street Dive: What About Flamingos 2027 Tour — Live Nation (livenation.com); Lake Street Dive events — Live Nation (livenation.com)