The Outlaws bring the Hurry Sundown Tour to Penn's Peak in March

Southern rock's guitar army takes the mountaintop room in Jim Thorpe on Saturday, March 20, with the Pat Travers Band as special guest. Tickets are on sale now.

Late March up on the ridge above Jim Thorpe is still more winter than spring, and the walk from the parking lot to the doors of Penn's Peak can be a cold one. On Saturday, March 20, 2027, the reward for that walk is a double bill of guitar players: The Outlaws, with the Pat Travers Band as special guest.

The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets run $45.20 to $56.40 through Ticketmaster and went on general sale Friday, Oct. 23. This one was announced Oct. 20, so Lehigh Valley rock fans have had a week to get ahead of it.

Penn's Peak bills the night as the Hurry Sundown Tour. The name points back to the Outlaws' 1977 album *Hurry Sundown*, released that May on Arista. Next year marks a half-century since that record came out. The band hasn't framed the run as an anniversary celebration in anything we found, but the tour name says plenty about which era they mean to put in front of an audience.

The Jim Thorpe date comes in the middle of a busy northeastern swing. Live Nation lists Hurry Sundown Tour stops at Daryl's House in Pawling, N.Y., on March 18 and at The Paramount in Huntington, N.Y., on March 26. Jim Thorpe falls between those dates, close enough to the I-80 and Turnpike corridors that fans from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and the Poconos can make an evening of it.

The Outlaws' calling card has always been the guitars, several of them going at once in the Southern rock tradition, and that's what draws a room like this one. Penn's Peak holds about 1,800 people. It's big enough to feel like an event and small enough that the guitar solos land in your chest rather than bouncing off arena rafters.

Pairing the Outlaws with the Pat Travers Band makes this a two-headed guitar night rather than a headliner with a warm-up. Travers is a guitarist-bandleader in his own right, and his band still tours under his name. Fans who come for the Outlaws should plan on being in their seats when the opener goes on.

For Lehigh Valley readers, the practical notes are simple. It's a Saturday, so the drive up Route 209 into Carbon County is the only real hurdle, and it's worth leaving time for it in March. Tickets are on sale now through the links on this page, where the price range is $45.20 to $56.40 before any fees.

The tour name says plenty about which era they mean to put in front of an audience.

Mark March 20 and bring a warm coat for the walk back to the car.

Sources: Penn's Peak – Concerts (pennspeak.com); The Outlaws Tickets – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com); The Outlaws Events – Live Nation (livenation.com); Hurry Sundown (Outlaws album) – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Pat Travers Band – official site (pattravers.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com)