Chicago's horns are headed to Beau Rivage Theatre on March 26

The long-running rock band added a Friday-night Biloxi date to its 2027 run. Here's who's leading it, the room, and where to get tickets.

Some bands put their hits at the end of the night. Chicago has enough of them to fill the whole set, and in March it brings that catalog to a 1,500-seat room on the Coast.

Chicago plays Beau Rivage Theatre in Biloxi on Friday, March 26, 2027, at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 26, and tickets are available through Ticketmaster.

The Biloxi show belongs to a wider 2027 schedule along the Gulf South. Ultimate Classic Rock reported more than 20 newly confirmed shows for next year, led by co-founding trumpeter Lee Loughnane. The run starts Jan. 29 at the Pensacola Saenger Theatre and continues the next night at the Dothan Civic Center, so the band will spend part of the winter just down I-10 before it reaches Biloxi in March.

Loughnane is worth a moment. He was there at the start: Wikipedia lists him as one of the band's founding members. He still stands in the horn line that made Chicago sound unlike any other rock band of its era. That brass section is the reason to see the band live instead of just playing the records. Trumpet, trombone and sax hit the riffs together, and that is hard to fake and hard to replace.

Then there's the room. Beau Rivage Theatre holds 1,500 people, which is small for a band whose name usually goes up on amphitheater marquees. Chicago has played sheds and big double bills, including a co-headlining run with Styx. A theater date flips that: a seated house, the horns close enough to see the valves move, and nobody fighting for a spot on the lawn.

That size also tells you how to approach tickets. A 1,500-capacity house for a band with decades of radio play doesn't leave much room for latecomers, and a Friday night in Biloxi in late March gives the drive-in crowd from New Orleans, Mobile and the Pine Belt an easy weekend plan. The show is on sale now through the Ticketmaster link. Buying from the official seller rather than a reseller is the safest bet.

What should you expect? Ultimate Classic Rock's report doesn't publish a set list, and we won't guess at one. With a founding member out front and a horn section behind him, though, the songs that defined Chicago's sound are the core of what this lineup does.

For a lot of people on the Coast, Chicago is the band from car radios and family road trips. On March 26 those songs come from the stage, horns and all.

Sources: Chicago 2027 concert dates — Ultimate Classic Rock (ultimateclassicrock.com); Lee Loughnane — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Chicago & Styx – The Windy Cities Tour — chicagotheband.com (chicagotheband.com); Chicago tickets, Biloxi — Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase listing (jambase.com)