St. Paul and The Broken Bones return to Jackson for a close-up night at Duling Hall

A decade after their 2016 stop at Thalia Mara Hall, the Birmingham-born soul band play a 500-capacity room on Tuesday, April 20, 2027.

The last time St. Paul and The Broken Bones played Jackson, it was June 5, 2016, on the big stage at Thalia Mara Hall. Next April they come back to a room roughly a fifth of that size — which, for a band this loud and this tight, is the better deal.

St. Paul and The Broken Bones play Duling Hall on Tuesday, April 20, 2027, with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. The Point open. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. Duling Hall holds about 500.

That's a decade between visits, and a lot of music in between. The band's most recent full-length is a self-titled album — their sixth studio record — which came out in October 2025, preceded by singles including "Fall Moon" and "Sitting in the Corner," according to mxdwn, which reviewed the record that month. They followed it this fall with Proxy, a four-song EP, per BroadwayWorld. So the Jackson set will have two fresh releases to draw from alongside the older songs that first made their name.

They've been busy on the road, too. This fall's calendar has included a run of UK and European dates, and a US stop in Charlotte in October, on a bill with Teddy Swims. A Tuesday night in a 500-seat room in Jackson is a very different kind of evening than any of that — and the kind of booking that longtime fans tend to treasure.

The band's genre tags — rock, R&B and soul, indie — only half describe what they do on stage. The core of it is a horn-driven soul band fronted by a singer who sounds like he was raised on old records, and that sound was built for rooms where you can feel the brass in your chest. Thalia Mara Hall is a grand old theater; Duling Hall puts you a few feet from the bandstand.

That's the real story of this return. Jackson has a long relationship with soul and blues music, and a band working in that tradition coming back to play a small room in the city is a good fit. Fans who caught them at Thalia Mara in 2016 will get a very different show this time, and anyone who missed that one gets a second shot ten years later.

With 500 tickets and a decade of demand, this is not a show to put off. Tuesday, April 20. Get there for The Point, and stay close to the front.

Sources: St. Paul & The Broken Bones drops new song "Sitting in the Corner" and announces new self-titled album — mxdwn (music.mxdwn.com); St. Paul & The Broken Bones share new song "Fall Moon" — mxdwn (music.mxdwn.com); Album Review: St. Paul & The Broken Bones — mxdwn (music.mxdwn.com); St. Paul & The Broken Bones release Proxy EP — BroadwayWorld (broadwayworld.com); St. Paul & the Broken Bones concert history — Concert Archives (concertarchives.org); JamBase: St. Paul and The Broken Bones at Duling Hall (jambase.com)