Elijah Scott books the Tower Theatre for March

After a 2026 spent playing "In a Bar Somewhere," the singer-songwriter steps up to Fresno's 1939 landmark on Saturday, March 13.

For most of 2026, Elijah Scott's tour title told you exactly where to find him: in a bar, somewhere. Come March, he'll be under the neon tower on Olive Avenue instead. Scott has announced a Saturday night at Fresno's Tower Theatre, and it's a step up in room for a songwriter who has spent the past year working clubs across the country.

Elijah Scott plays the Tower Theatre on Saturday, March 13, 2027, at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale through the theater's Ticketsauce page, where the date is billed as part of The Person That I Am Tour. It was announced Nov. 2, and the theater holds 761.

Scott's 2026 was spent on the In a Bar Somewhere Tour, a run that took him to rooms like Pearl Street Warehouse in Washington, D.C., in July, as its Opendate listing shows, and to Blue Note Hawaii, where Hawaii Public Radio's listing pointed to songs like "Cigarettes" and "Turnin Into Something" as showing his range. A fall leg followed, including a date at the Jefferson Theater in Beaumont, Texas. The Fresno show belongs to the new tour that comes next.

The venue is worth the trip on its own. The Tower Theatre opened in December 1939, built by PG&E executive A. Emory Wishon and designed by theater architect S. Charles Lee in the Streamline Moderne style, according to Wikipedia) and the building's National Register of Historic Places nomination. Its tower, reportedly inspired by the "Star Pylon" at the 1939 New York World's Fair, became such a landmark that the surrounding neighborhood took its name: the Tower District.

The tower became such a landmark that the neighborhood took its name.

The theater has had more than one life. It stopped showing first-run films in 1980 and moved to a repertory program, then reopened in 1990 after a renovation that won awards from architecture and historic-preservation groups, per the Historic Fresno record. Today it operates as the Tower Theatre for the Performing Arts, and a 761-seat room built for movies is a very good place to hear a songwriter — the sightlines are made for watching one person on a stage.

For Scott, it's also a different kind of night than a bar gig: a seated, listening audience instead of a crowd talking over the bartender. That tends to be where songwriters show what the songs are really made of.

Practicalities: it's a 7 p.m. Saturday start in the Tower District, which means dinner and a drink in the neighborhood beforehand are part of the deal. Tickets are through the theater's Ticketsauce link above.

Fresno gets a lot of artists passing through on the way to somewhere bigger. On March 13, the room itself is the bigger thing — and a songwriter fresh off a year of bars gets to find out what his songs sound like in a 1939 movie palace.

Sources: Elijah Scott — The Person That I Am Tour — Tower Theatre (Ticketsauce) (towertheatre.ticketsauce.com); Elijah Scott: In A Bar Somewhere Tour, July 8, 2026 — Opendate (app.opendate.io); Elijah Scott at Blue Note Hawaii — Hawaii Public Radio (hawaiipublicradio.org); Elijah Scott Fall Tour 2026 — Downtown Beaumont (downtownbeaumont.org); Tower Theatre (Fresno, California) — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Tower Theatre — National Register of Historic Places (Historic Fresno) (historicfresno.org); Elijah Scott at Tower Theatre — JamBase (jambase.com)