Six Mile's Blake Whiten books The Senate for April

The upstate South Carolina singer, a year out from his major-label signing, headlines Columbia on Friday, April 9, 2027.

Six Mile, South Carolina, is a town of fewer than 800 people near Clemson. Next spring one of them is headlining a 1,200-capacity room in the state capital. Blake Whiten plays The Senate on Friday, April 9, 2027, with an 8 p.m. start. The show was announced Oct. 26, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.

For a lot of Columbia country fans, this will be a home-state show in every sense. All Country News calls him "Six Mile's son" and puts his age at about 21, and tells the story of his dad handing him a six-string and showing him four chords. He has said his music pulls from classic country and classic rock alongside early-2000s country and rock, which tracks with the gravelly voice and storytelling critics keep pointing to.

The climb since then has been quick. Whiten signed with Enchntmnt/Warner Records in June 2025. His debut EP was titled *Six Mile*, a name that tells you where his head is at, and his first full-length album, *Something To Say*, came out this summer. Along the way, SiriusXM's The Highway named him its first "Highway Find" of 2026, and he has made his Grand Ole Opry debut. Back in March he released "Ghost House," another single that leaned into his storytelling.

That is a lot to happen in under two years, and it explains the size of the room. A first album, a major label behind it and national radio attention add up to a headliner who can reasonably expect to fill a big Friday-night club in his home state.

The Senate holds 1,200, which puts this show a long way from a small-town Friday at a local bar. It's a room that rewards a big, rowdy country crowd, and an April Friday is about as good as calendar luck gets for a show like this: warm enough to linger outside, early enough in the season that people are hungry to go out.

The headline draw here is the arc. Columbia gets to see a South Carolina kid who went from four chords on his dad's guitar to an Opry stage, playing songs from a debut album that is still only a few months old. If *Something To Say* has been on repeat in your truck since summer, this is the room to hear it out loud with a thousand-some people who know the words too.

Tickets are on sale now at the link above. April is five months away, but for a home-state artist on an upswing, five months is plenty of time for word to get around. Get in early, bring somebody from the upstate, and plan on singing along.

Sources: Blake Whiten: Six Mile's Son Carving Out a Place in Country Music (All Country News) (allcountrynews.com); Blake Whiten inks with Enchntmnt/Warner Records (MusicRow) (musicrow.com); Something To Say – Apple Music (music.apple.com); Blake Whiten Is The Highway's First 'Highway Finds' of 2026 (SiriusXM) (siriusxm.com); Blake Whiten – Grand Ole Opry (opry.com); Blake Whiten takes fans to Ghost House with new single (antiMusic) (musicpressbox.antimusic.com); Blake Whiten at The Senate (JamBase) (jambase.com)