Tommy Emmanuel returns to the Avalon, three years to the day

The guitarist last played Grand Junction on Feb. 24, 2024; on Feb. 24, 2027, he's back at the Avalon Theatre on the Living in the Light tour.

Tommy Emmanuel's last Grand Junction show was at the Avalon Theatre on Feb. 24, 2024. His next one is at the Avalon Theatre on Feb. 24, 2027. Same room, same date, three years on. In between, he made a new record.

Emmanuel plays the Avalon on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027. The theater's upcoming events page lists doors at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets run $37.50 to $258.40 through Ticketmaster, and the date was announced Oct. 20. The Avalon, at 645 Main St., holds about 1,090.

The tour is billed as Tommy Emmanuel, CGP – Living in the Light, after the album of the same name. *Living in the Light* came out in October 2025, and the tour behind it opened that month at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, as Grateful Web reported. It was his first solo album in about a decade, made with producer Vance Powell. The coverage describes a record that ranges across acoustic pop, jazz, classical and roots music. Most of it was captured in one or two takes, and several songs carry his own vocals. It also includes a cover of Sharon O'Neill's "Maxine," per Americana UK.

Same stage, same date, three years later, and a new record in between.

The one-or-two-takes detail is the part that should matter most to anyone who has seen him. An album made the same way should move onto the stage without much translation. By next February the songs will have been on the road for well over a year.

That road runs a long way. The tour has kept rolling through 2026, with a December date in Charlotte and dates in Germany already booked for 2027.

The Avalon is a good room for this. A single guitarist on a theater stage on Main Street, with 1,000-some people who came specifically to listen, is the setting where fingerstyle guitar makes the most sense. Our data files him under rock, folk and bluegrass; in practice, he covers all three, sometimes within a single song.

Practical notes: it's a Wednesday, and a 7:30 p.m. start gets you home at a reasonable hour. Doors at 6:30 give time for a drink on Main Street first. The price range is wide, so there's room for more than one budget.

Getting him back on the same date three years later is a nice bit of symmetry. Mark Feb. 24 on the calendar again.

Sources: The Avalon Theatre — Upcoming Events (avalontheatregj.com); Grateful Web: Tommy Emmanuel Releases 'Living In The Light' and Kicks Off National Tour (gratefulweb.com); Americana UK: Tommy Emmanuel returns with new album and UK and European dates (americana-uk.com); Blumenthal Arts: Tommy Emmanuel, CGP – Living in the Light Tour (blumenthalarts.org); JamBase: Tommy Emmanuel at Avalon Theatre (jambase.com)