Arkansauce come home to the Rev Room with a new album in hand

The Ozark newgrass band plays Revolution Music Room on Friday, Dec. 18, months after releasing 'Horizon Never Dies,' recorded away from their Fayetteville home base.

There's a particular kind of December show that feels like a homecoming even when the band isn't technically from your city. Arkansauce playing Little Rock is one of them.

Arkansauce play Revolution Music Room in Little Rock on Friday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. Tickets are available through the Rev Room's site. The date was announced Oct. 23, and the room holds about 550.

Arkansauce are a bluegrass and jam band out of Fayetteville, the kind of high-octane Ozark newgrass outfit that Grateful Web has described as built for the stage. This year, they did something different. Their sixth album, Horizon Never Dies, began with a change of scenery: after five albums made at home in Fayetteville, the band went to Southern Ground studio in Nashville to record it, according to Grateful Web's coverage of the single "Rearview", released at the end of July.

That's the hook for this show. A band that spent five records rooted in the Ozarks took its sound somewhere new, and a December night back in Arkansas is a chance to hear how those songs land in front of a home-state crowd.

A band that spent five records rooted in the Ozarks took its sound somewhere new.

The Rev Room has its own story this year. In April 2025, owners Chris King and Suzon Awbrey said they would not renew the lease on their River Market building after 19 years, while insisting, as the Arkansas Times reported, that "this isn't the end of the Rev Room." A December 2025 announcement extended the River Market run through May 2026, and named Arkansauce among the first acts booked for that extension (Arkansas Times). Check the ticket page for the latest on where this show takes place.

Arkansauce and the Rev Room, in other words, have been tied together through this whole chapter for the venue. That gives a December show under the Rev Room name extra weight for anyone who has spent years seeing bands there.

What to expect: songs from *Horizon Never Dies*, with "Rearview" the obvious one to know going in, plus the extended jams that bluegrass-and-jam crowds come for. A Friday 8 p.m. start leaves plenty of room for a long night.

For Little Rock readers, this is the kind of show that sells on word of mouth: a regional band with a new record, a room that matters to the local scene, and a Friday right before the holidays. Don't wait until the week of.

Get your tickets, cue up "Rearview," and plan on a Friday in December that sounds a lot like home.

Sources: Arkansauce Shares New Single “Rearview” From Upcoming Album Horizon Never Dies — Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Arkansauce Brings High-Octane Ozark Newgrass to the Fox Theatre — Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Rev Room owners say non-renewal of lease ‘isn’t the end’ of venue — Arkansas Times (arktimes.com); Rev Room will remain in River Market through May 2026 — Arkansas Times (arktimes.com); Rev Room to delay Rivermarket lease ending to May of 2026 — KATV (katv.com); Tickets — Rev Room (revroom.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com)