Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country returns to Duling Hall in February

Two and a half years after his last Jackson show, the Nashville guitarist comes back to the same Fondren room on Friday, Feb 26, 2027.

When Daniel Donato last played Jackson, on Oct 4, 2024, it was at Duling Hall. He’s coming back to the same room. On Friday, Feb 26, 2027, Donato and his band play Duling Hall, with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $34.55 through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct 20.

A lot has happened since that 2024 visit. In August 2025, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country released Horizons on Retrace Music, an album announced with a June 2025 press release and covered by Glide Magazine. The band then spent 2026 on the road nearly nonstop: a winter run that included a return to CBS Saturday Morning, per All Eyes Media, a spring leg that ended with the band’s debut at New York’s Beacon Theatre on April 4, and summer nights at Colorado’s Mishawaka Amphitheatre.

The biggest marker came at the end of August. The band played two nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Aug 28 and 29, and announced its first live album, Ryman to Robert’s, due Aug 28 via Retrace, according to Live for Live Music. After that came a sprawling fall tour, running from Sept 3 to Nov 7 across the East Coast, the Midwest and the Mountain West, with a Halloween night in Milwaukee, as JamBase reported and Relix covered when the dates were announced.

Since his last Jackson show, the band has played the Beacon, the Ryman twice and released its first live album.

So the band that comes back to Jackson in February has a much bigger year behind it than the one that played here in 2024. A Beacon debut, two Ryman nights and a live record add up to a band that has stepped up in size. Coming back to a 500-capacity room like Duling Hall is a chance to see that growth up close.

“Cosmic Country” is Donato’s own name for what the band does: country and folk roots, stretched out with the improvising instincts of a jam band. It is music that changes from night to night, which is why fans travel to see more than one show and why a room this size suits it.

Duling Hall holds about 500, and it’s a known stop for touring roots and rock acts coming through Jackson. Donato played it in 2024 and is choosing it again, which says something about how that night went.

What to know before you go: it’s an 8 p.m. Friday show. At $34.55, it’s a reasonable ticket for a band at this stage, and in a 500-capacity room, the closer you get to February, the fewer there will be.

Two and a half years between visits, and a lot of miles in between. Jackson gets the payoff on a Friday night in late February.

Sources: Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Locks In Fall 2026 Tour Dates (JamBase) (jambase.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country plot sprawling fall tour (Relix) (relix.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country announces first live album, Ryman return (Live for Live Music) (liveforlivemusic.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Return to CBS Saturday Morning and Announce 2026 Winter Tour (All Eyes Media) (alleyesmedia.com); Horizons press release (All Eyes Media) (alleyesmedia.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Reveals Album ‘Horizons’ (Glide Magazine) (glidemagazine.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Announces 2026 Winter/Spring Tour (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Heads to Mishawaka (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com)