Black Stone Cherry unplug at The Machine Shop to open their Bonfire Nights tour

Next Thursday, Nov. 12, Flint gets night one of the Kentucky rockers' acoustic run — $25 in advance at a 550-capacity room.

The Machine Shop has seen Black Stone Cherry at full volume before. Next Thursday it gets to hear them turned down. On Thursday, Nov. 12, the band brings Bonfire Nights: An Acoustic Evening to the Dort Highway club, with the show at 7 p.m. The venue's site lists tickets at $25 in advance.

And it's not just any date on the run. Flint is the first of 20 dates listed for Black Stone Cherry on this swing, which means the room on Dort Highway gets the opening night of the run. From here the band heads to the Chicago suburbs on Nov. 14, then Minneapolis–St. Paul (Nov. 16), Sioux Falls (Nov. 17), Omaha (Nov. 18), St. Louis (Nov. 20) and Birmingham (Nov. 21).

Night one, unplugged, in a 550-person room

Why go? Because a stripped-down set is the closest you'll get to hearing how these songs were actually written. Black Stone Cherry built their name as a loud Southern hard-rock band, the kind that sits comfortably in metal and rock playlists alike, and their recent year has been on that big-stage footing: a summer 2026 run of shows alongside Buckcherry on the Roar Like Thunder tour, and a run of intimate "An Evening With…" shows in the UK this autumn (Moshville). Bonfire Nights is the U.S. answer to that idea — an "intimate, stripped-down set," in the words of the tour's Pure Michigan listing. Same songs, new shape, nowhere for a vocal or a guitar part to hide.

The room makes the case even stronger. The Machine Shop holds 550, and it has been booking rock, metal and outlaw country since 2002. This band knows the room; 100% Rock Magazine reviewed their Flint show back in May 2015. An acoustic night in a place that size will feel less like a concert and more like the band pulled up chairs in your living room — if your living room had a bar and a lot of black T-shirts.

What to know before going: the show starts at 7 on a Thursday, so plan to get out of work and up Dort Highway without dawdling. The $25 advance price is the one to grab; buy it from the venue's site rather than paying resale markups. And bring your voice — acoustic sets in rock rooms almost always turn into singalongs by the second half.

Seat-of-your-pants rock fans tend to skip the acoustic tours. That's their loss. Opening night of a run, a hometown-favorite room, and $25 at the door of a club that has always treated this band right: this one's worth a Thursday.

Sources: The Machine Shop — Black Stone Cherry: Bonfire Nights Acoustic Evening (themachineshop.info); Black Stone Cherry — Bonfire Nights: An Acoustic Evening Tour — Pure Michigan (michigan.org); BUCKCHERRY Announces Final Leg Of 'Roar Like Thunder' Tour, Including Nine Shows With BLACK STONE CHERRY — Blabbermouth (blabbermouth.net); Black Stone Cherry Announce “An Evening With…” UK Tour for Autumn 2026 — Moshville (moshville.co.uk); Live: Black Stone Cherry, May 9, 2015, Flint MI — 100% Rock Magazine (100percentrock.com); Black Stone Cherry at The Machine Shop — JamBase (jambase.com); Black Stone Cherry - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)