Mike Love brings his roots-reggae trilogy to Felton Music Hall in February

The O'ahu-born singer-guitarist plays Felton on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027 — his first Santa Cruz-area show since a 2024 night at the Catalyst.

Mike Love last played this stretch of coast in February 2024, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Three years later he's coming back up into the redwoods, to a smaller room, with two new albums' worth of songs.

Mike Love plays Felton Music Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $24.50 through Prekindle. The show was announced Oct. 27.

Love is a roots-reggae artist born on O'ahu into a family of musicians, according to his Reggaeville artist page. His sound starts in roots reggae and pulls in progressive and classic rock, soul, blues, flamenco, jazz and classical, with a stated mission to inspire transformation and positive change. He releases his music on his own label, Love Not War Records, and has since his early records — his debut, *The Change I'm Seeking*, came out in December 2012, followed by *Love Will Find a Way* and its companion, *Love Overflowing*.

What's changed since his last visit is a body of work built as a set. *Leaders* arrived digitally on July 5, 2024, an 11-track album that, per Reggaeville's review, finally put longtime live staples like the title song and "Humble" on a studio record, along with "We Are One" featuring Paula Fuga. *Teachers* followed in October 2025 as the second part of a trilogy, with a third installment, *Healers*, still to come.

Leaders, then Teachers, with Healers still to come.

He has also been on the road a long way from Hawai'i. This fall Love has been opening for New Zealand reggae band Katchafire on their Australian tour, and he collaborates with them on "Sensimillia," a single from Katchafire's *Revival 2.0 Guest Edition*, according to Sydney.com tour listings.

The Felton date is a scale change from the Catalyst. Felton Music Hall holds about 400, so this is a chance to hear the long, searching guitar passages and message songs from much closer than a club floor allows. A Wednesday in the mountains also tends to sort the crowd down to people who really want to be there — the kind who know the words to "Humble" from bootlegs long before it was ever recorded.

If the *Leaders* and *Teachers* records have been in your rotation, this is the first chance to hear that material live in the county. If you only know Love from a festival set years back, this is a good night to catch up. Either way, make the drive up Highway 9 and get there early.

Sources: Mike Love — Reggaeville artist page (reggaeville.com); Mike Love — Leaders review — Reggaeville (reggaeville.com); Mike Love — Analysis Plus (analysis.plus); Mike Love Releases Debut Album — The Pier (thepier.org); Katchafire (NZ) with Special Guest Mike Love (Hawaii) — Sydney.com (sydney.com); Prekindle: Mike Love at Felton Music Hall (prekindle.com); JamBase: Mike Love at Felton Music Hall (jambase.com)