Live Wire brings its AC/DC tribute back to Leesburg's Tally Ho Theater on March 27

The New York-area AC/DC tribute act has a spring date across the Potomac, and tickets are already on sale for a show that's worth the drive for Frederick hard-rock fans.

Somewhere in Frederick County there's a denim vest with an AC/DC patch on the back that hasn't left the closet since the last time the real band came through a stadium near here. It has a date now: Saturday, March 27, 2027, when Live Wire: The Ultimate AC/DC Experience plays the Tally Ho Theater in Leesburg, Virginia.

To be plain about it up front: Live Wire is a tribute act, not AC/DC. That's the whole point. The band's job is to get the riffs, the volume and the schoolboy-uniform swagger right in a room small enough that you can see the sweat, and to do it for a lot less than a stadium ticket costs.

The show was announced Oct. 19, and Ticketmaster's event page lists it as a 7 p.m. start. General on-sale opened last Wednesday, Oct. 21, so tickets are available now through Ticketmaster.

Leesburg isn't in our backyard. It's across the Potomac in Loudoun County, and for most Frederick and Western Maryland readers that means a drive, a river crossing and a plan for parking. But Tally Ho is the kind of room that rewards the effort for a show like this. It's a theater rather than a shed or an arena, and a tribute band that leans this hard on spectacle plays differently when the crowd is close enough to shout the "Thunderstruck" chant back at the stage.

It's also familiar territory for this band. Ticketmaster has listed Live Wire at Tally Ho on March 7, 2026 and again on Sept. 12, 2026, which makes the March 2027 date at least the third time in about a year the group has booked the room. Promoters don't keep bringing a tribute act back to the same stage unless people keep buying tickets.

As for the band itself, Live Wire comes out of the New York metro area and has been at this since 2000, according to venue promotion for its shows at places like Sellersville Theater in Pennsylvania. Frontman John "JJ" Jamison handles both eras of the catalog, covering the Bon Scott years and the Brian Johnson years. That matters for an AC/DC night. A set that can go from "It's a Long Way to the Top" to "Back in Black" without the singer straining on either one is a set that pleases both halves of the crowd: the people who grew up on the '70s records and the people who came in through the 1980 album that put the band everywhere.

A spring Saturday in a theater, with a band that has clearly earned a return booking, is an easy sell.

Promoters don't keep bringing a tribute act back to the same stage unless people keep buying tickets.

If you're heading down from Frederick, give yourself time to find parking downtown and maybe grab dinner on the way. Check the Tally Ho's event page before you go for doors and age policy. Then dig out the vest. It's been waiting long enough.

Sources: Ticketmaster: Live Wire: The Ultimate AC/DC Experience, Leesburg, Mar 27, 2027 (ticketmaster.com); Tally Ho Theater: Live Wire: The Ultimate AC/DC Experience (tallyhotheater.com); Ticketmaster: Live Wire at Tally Ho, Mar 7, 2026 (ticketmaster.com); Ticketmaster: Live Wire at Tally Ho, Sep 12, 2026 (ticketmaster.com); Ticketmaster: Live Wire artist page (ticketmaster.com); Sellersville Theater: Live Wire: The Ultimate AC/DC Experience (st94.com); New Jersey Stage: The Landis presents Live Wire (newjerseystage.com)