Michael Feinstein heads back to Hayes Hall in March

The pianist and singer hasn't played Fort Myers–Naples since February 2024; he returns to Artis–Naples on Wednesday, March 10, 2027.

The last time Michael Feinstein played this corner of Florida, it was a February night in 2024 and the room was Hayes Hall. When he comes back next spring, it will be the same stage, the same piano bench, and a little more than three years of new material behind him.

Michael Feinstein plays Hayes Hall at Artis–Naples on Wednesday, March 10, 2027, at 7:30 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 12, and tickets are sold through Artis–Naples. It is his first Fort Myers–Naples show since Feb. 12, 2024, when he played the same 1,477-seat hall.

Three years is a real gap for an artist like this. Feinstein is a jazz and standards performer whose work lives in concert halls, and the Naples crowd that turned out for him in 2024 is exactly the audience that circles a date like this months in advance. A March weeknight at Artis–Naples, with the calendar this far out, gives people plenty of time to plan around it.

So what has he been up to since he was last in town? A lot of it has run through Carnegie Hall. The hall's calendar carried a Standard Time with Michael Feinstein concert on Nov. 5, 2025, part of his series of evenings built around the American songbook. He also put together a tribute to Tony Bennett, *Because of You*, which played Carnegie Hall and then went out on a national tour with the Carnegie Hall Big Band and the Carnegie Hall Ensemble.

That tribute is a good shorthand for what Feinstein does. He is less a nostalgia act than a keeper of a repertoire: the songs that Bennett, and the writers Bennett sang, made into the backbone of American popular music. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra lists him among its visiting keyboard artists, a sign of how comfortably he moves between cabaret intimacy and full orchestral stages.

What will the Naples show look like? The listing for March 10 doesn't spell out a program, a band or a guest, so it's worth checking the Artis–Naples site closer to the date for details. What's settled is the setting. Hayes Hall is a room built for exactly this kind of evening, big enough to feel like an occasion and still small enough that a singer at the piano can hold every row. Feinstein has already shown he can fill it once; his 2024 visit is the reason this return is worth noting at all.

For anyone who missed him last time, the math is simple. He has gone three years between Naples dates, and there's no guarantee the next gap is shorter. If the songbook is your thing, this is the night on the winter calendar to protect.

There's also something fitting about the timing. Announced in mid-October, landing in March, the show gives the whole season to build toward it. Mark the date, keep an eye on the program, and get your seats in Hayes Hall sorted before the snowbird calendars fill.

Three years between Naples dates is a long time to wait for the songbook.

See you in Hayes Hall.

Sources: Artis–Naples (tickets) (artisnaples.org); Standard Time with Michael Feinstein – Carnegie Hall, Nov. 5, 2025 (carnegiehall.org); On Tour: Michael Feinstein's Tribute to Tony Bennett – Carnegie Hall (carnegiehall.org); Michael Feinstein – Chicago Symphony Orchestra visiting artists (cso.org); JamBase listing (jambase.com)