Lucky Daye brings the ALOUD! Tour to Bogart's in March

The New Orleans R&B singer's first Warner Records album is two weeks old, and his 24-city run behind it stops on Short Vine on Wednesday, March 24.

Five months is a long time to hold a ticket, but a Wednesday night in March on Short Vine just got circled for a lot of Cincinnati R&B fans. Lucky Daye brings the ALOUD! Tour to Bogart's on Wednesday, March 24, 2027, with the show starting at 7 p.m. Tickets run $49.50–$371.10 through Ticketmaster, and they're on sale now.

Cincinnati is one of 24 cities on the North American run, which opens March 2 in Orlando and closes April 8 at The Warfield in San Francisco. Along the way there's a hometown night at the Fillmore in New Orleans on March 5 and a single Canadian date, March 21 at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Special guests haven't been announced yet. A fan presale and local presales ran last week ahead of the general on-sale, which opened Friday, Oct. 23.

What he's touring is brand new. ALOUD! arrived October 16 on Warner Records, Daye's first album for the label after leaving RCA, and the follow-up to 2024's *Algorithm*. It runs 15 tracks, with guest turns from Leon Thomas, Pusha T, Muni Long, The Paradox and Akeem Ali. The title is a bit of wordplay he's built the record around: the gap between being "allowed" to say something and being loud enough to actually say it.

If you haven't caught up yet, start with "Fly U Out," the Leon Thomas collaboration that came out as a single back in August, then the jazz-tinged "Mouf Say" with Pusha T, then "Knockin." That's a fair sampler of the record's range, from late-night slow burn to something with a little more swing in it.

Daye grew up in New Orleans and found singing and songwriting early there, and he's been one of the steadier names in modern R&B for a while now. His 2021 EP *Table for Two* won the Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album, and his second album, *Candydrip*, was nominated for Best R&B Album. The new one is the first time he's put that track record behind a new label, and a spring tour this size is the first real test of how ALOUD! lands in a room.

The room helps. Bogart's holds about 1,500, which is big enough to feel like an event and small enough that the back of the floor is still close to the stage. It sits at 2621 Short Vine in Corryville, in the middle of the strip's bars and restaurants, so dinner before the show is a short walk. One practical note worth knowing early: Bogart's doesn't run its own parking lots. The venue points people to rideshare, or to the #78 Springdale–Vine–Lincoln Heights bus, which stops two blocks away.

A Wednesday in late March isn't the easiest night to get a crew out, which is exactly why it's worth sorting tickets now rather than in February. Put it on the calendar, play the record a few times over the winter, and by the time the doors open on Short Vine you'll know every word of "Mouf Say."

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