Collective Soul returns to the Indianapolis area for the first time since 2016

The band plays Fishers Event Center on Friday, Feb. 19, with Edwin McCain along, a week after a three-night Las Vegas run.

The last time Collective Soul played Indianapolis, it was an August night by the river at White River State Park. The next time will be a February Friday under an arena roof in Fishers. Collective Soul plays Fishers Event Center on Friday, Feb. 19, 2027, with Edwin McCain as special guest. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets run $30.90–$159.55 through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct. 26.

That makes it the band's first Indianapolis-area show since Aug. 6, 2016, at what was then Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park. More than ten years is a long time between visits for a band whose radio hits never really left the dial.

The Fishers date sits right after a high-profile run out west. Collective Soul has three nights booked at The Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas around Big Game Weekend — Feb. 10, 12 and 13 — with McCain on those shows as well, so the Fishers crowd gets the same pairing about a week later.

McCain is no throw-in. In 2025 he released *Lucky*, his 11th full-length studio album and his first new material since 2011, co-produced with Lee Brice and Jerrod Niemann; its ten tracks pull from blues, soul, rock and folk. He spent last summer co-headlining with Five for Fighting. Fans of a certain age will be there for the songs they already know, but he arrives with a recent record to play from, too.

More than ten years is a long time between visits for a band whose radio hits never really left the dial.

What's changed most since 2016 is the map. In 2016 there was no Fishers Event Center. The city-owned arena opened in late 2024 as the home of the ECHL's Indy Fuel, who moved up from Indiana Farmers Coliseum at the State Fairgrounds, and it has since added the Fishers Freight of the Indoor Football League and the Indy Ignite pro volleyball team. It's a $200 million city investment inside the larger Fishers District development, and it seats about 7,500 — a real arena, but a manageable one, without the cavernous feel of a downtown building.

For anyone on the northeast side or up in Hamilton County, that's the appeal: a rock show that doesn't require driving downtown and paying downtown parking. For everyone else, Fishers District has restaurants and bars around the building to make a night of it.

The ticket range is wide, so it's worth looking at the seat map before you buy; the top end will be close to the stage, but at a building this size there aren't many truly bad seats.

Ten years is long enough that some of the people in the room will be bringing kids who weren't born the last time. Expect a few of them to know every word anyway.

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