49 Winchester's Change of Plans Tour lands at The Intersection in April

The Virginia band brings its 2027 headline run to Grand Rapids on Saturday, April 24, behind this spring's Change of Plans.

April in Grand Rapids is a gamble: one Saturday it's patio weather on Division, the next it's sleet. Here's one thing that won't move. 49 Winchester plays The Intersection on Saturday, April 24, 2027, at 8 p.m., a stop on the band's newly announced Change of Plans Tour. The show was announced Oct. 20 and tickets are on sale now through eTix.

It's a long way off, but this is a room that holds 400 for this show, and 49 Winchester's crowds have a way of finding out early. Six months of lead time tends to shrink fast.

The tour is built around *Change of Plans*, the album the band released May 15 on Lucille Records and MCA. Universal Music Canada's release announcement marked its arrival, and the band previewed it with "Oh Savannah" in the weeks before. The record picked up coverage across the Atlantic, too, from outlets like Americana UK and Country in the UK.

According to uDiscover Music, the 2027 headline run opens Feb. 5 at The Eastern in Atlanta and closes May 8 at Billy Bob's in Fort Worth, with stops in Charlotte, Los Angeles, Boston and Austin along the way. That puts Grand Rapids in the back half of the tour, about two weeks before the finale. By late April a band has played these songs night after night for nearly three months. That's usually when a set stops sounding like a record and starts sounding like a band.

The schedule also says something about where 49 Winchester is right now. Outside the headline dates, the band has booked its only Danish concert of 2027 at Tønder Festival in late August. A group that plays rock, country and folk in roughly equal measure is now drawing interest from festival bookers an ocean away.

For West Michigan, the appeal is simpler. The band is a country-leaning rock act that sounds best loud and close, and The Intersection has long been where Grand Rapids goes to see touring acts at about that size. A Saturday night there, with a few hundred people who know the words, is about as good as this music gets.

By late April a band has played these songs night after night for nearly three months.

If you've only heard *Change of Plans* through earbuds, this is the chance to hear it the way it was built to be played. Saturday, April 24, 8 p.m., The Intersection. Buy now, and let April's weather sort itself out.

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