Lake Street Dive bring 'What About Flamingos?' to the Louisville Palace in March

Lake Street Dive's ninth album comes out Feb. 19. A month later they play the Palace on March 20, the second-to-last night of the tour, with Philadelphia brass band SNACKTIME opening.

Somewhere in Lake Street Dive's new catalog is a song that started with a podcast. Bassist Bridget Kearney heard Brian Eno talking about how unlikely and remarkable life on Earth is, and she wrote "What About Flamingos?" from that thought. It's a slow, reflective song built on the band's harmonies, and next March Louisville gets to hear it in a full room.

Lake Street Dive play The Louisville Palace Theater on Saturday, March 20, 2027, at 7 p.m. Philadelphia band SNACKTIME open. The date was announced Oct. 23 as part of the band's winter tour, and tickets are on Ticketmaster. Artist presales and VIP packages for the tour opened Wednesday, Oct. 28, so anyone hoping for a good seat in the 2,611-capacity Palace should check now rather than in February.

The timing matters. *What About Flamingos?*, the band's ninth album, is due Feb. 19, 2027, so the Louisville show comes a month after release, when the new songs have had time to settle in on the road. It's also near the very end of the run: the tour has 15 dates from Feb. 26 to March 21. It opens at Vibrant Music Hall in Waukee, Iowa, crosses into Canada for Montreal and Toronto, and closes with Detroit, Louisville and Peoria, Illinois. Louisville is the second-to-last night. A band that far into a tour is usually loose, locked in and playing the new material like it has always been in the set.

The record marks a shift for the group. It's their first release on their own label, and it follows 2024's *Good Together*. It has 12 tracks, produced by Philip Weinrobe and Jonathan Wilson, and includes "You're Never Around," the single they put out in July. The brass ensemble Huntertones appear on a track called "Gertrude." The title track arrived on Oct. 21 with a video and is the clearest sign of where the band is heading: slower, more spacious, with the vocal blend at the center of the sound.

That blend is why a room the size of the Palace suits them. Lake Street Dive have always sounded like a band that likes playing together in one spot, trading lines and stacking harmonies. The country, indie and folk tags in our listings only get part of it. In a big theater that pulls toward the stage, the harmonies carry and the groove still lands.

SNACKTIME are a good pick for the slot. The Philadelphia group is brass-driven, mixing funk, soul, jazz, hip-hop and rock, and they're on 14 of the 15 tour dates. On a Saturday night, that means the room will already be moving by the time the headliners walk on. The only date without them is an "Evening With" show in Greenville, S.C.

Louisville is the second-to-last night of the tour, a month after the album lands.

If you're deciding whether to commit to a show five months out, here's the case: a new album with a different shape, a band near the end of a run, and an opener that won't let anyone sit through the first set. Start with the tour announcement for the full routing, then grab a pair. March in Louisville can still be cold. Inside the Palace, it won't feel like it.

Sources: Lake Street Dive Lines Up Winter 2027 Album Release Tour (JamBase) (jambase.com); Lake Street Dive Shares 'What About Flamingos?' Title Track & Details New Album (JamBase) (jambase.com); Lake Street Dive Announce New Album 'What About Flamingos?' (mxdwn) (music.mxdwn.com); Lake Street Dive 2027 tour dates (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Lake Street Dive Philadelphia tickets on sale with SNACKTIME (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Lake Street Dive: What About Flamingos? 2027 Tour (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Ticketmaster: Lake Street Dive, Louisville Palace, Mar 20 2027 (ticketmaster.evyy.net)