Arkansauce hits the road: 13 dates across 11 markets, ending with two nights at George's Majestic

The northwest Arkansas string band swings from Omaha to Denver to Tulsa this winter before closing 2026 at home in Fayetteville.

For a lot of people in Fayetteville, the end of the year means one thing: Arkansauce at George's. This winter the band gets there the long way, with 13 dates across 11 On at 8 markets over the next three months, ending with back-to-back nights at George's Majestic on Dec. 30 and 31.

Here's where the run lands.

It starts Friday, Nov. 13, at Slowdown in Omaha (8 p.m.), the only November date. Then the band heads west: Friday, Dec. 4, at Fusion 708 in Albuquerque and Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Ogden Theatre in Denver (7:30 p.m.), the biggest room on the tour at 1,600 capacity.

The middle of December is a Midwest and Ozarks swing: Thursday, Dec. 10, at Old Rock House in St. Louis (8 p.m.); Friday, Dec. 11, at recordBar in Kansas City (7 p.m.); Saturday, Dec. 12, at Alluvial Brewing Company in Ames (7 p.m.); Thursday, Dec. 17, at The Vanguard in Tulsa (8 p.m.); Friday, Dec. 18, at Revolution Music Room in Little Rock (8 p.m.); and Saturday, Dec. 19, at The Regency Live in Springfield (8 p.m.).

Then it's home: Wednesday, Dec. 30 (8:30 p.m.) and Thursday, Dec. 31 (8 p.m.) at George's Majestic in Fayetteville.

If you haven't caught them, Arkansauce is a genre-hopping four-piece string band from northwest Arkansas, as the University of Arkansas athletics department put it when it booked the band for a home-game pregame. Their fifth album, *OK to Wonder*, came out independently in April 2023, per Grateful Web, which described them as a high-octane string band. Visit Hot Springs has billed them as the Arkansas Country Music Awards' Bluegrass Artist of the Year. The band has also done a session for NPR Live Sessions, presented by Fayetteville public radio station KUAF and the Folk School of Fayetteville.

The rooms on this run tell you where Arkansauce's audience lives: a ring of cities a day's drive from the Ozarks.

Which rooms to watch? Denver's Ogden is the swing-for-the-fences date, a 1,600-capacity theater far from home. The Springfield show at The Regency Live, at 850 capacity, is the largest room in Missouri on the run. Tulsa's Vanguard and Little Rock's Revolution, both around 500, are the regional rooms where a band like this builds its base.

But the anchor is the hometown stand. Arkansauce has made New Year's Eve at George's something of a tradition: the band rang in the year there in 2022 with Mighty Pines opening, as NWA Online reported, and Experience Fayetteville listed that set as running from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. This year the band adds a Dec. 30 night before the main event.

George's itself is part of the draw. The Dickson Street room marked 90 years in business in 2016, Talk Business & Politics reported, which makes it one of the longest-running music rooms in the region.

If you're in one of these cities, pick your night. If you're in Fayetteville, pick both.

Sources: Genre-Hopping, Four-Piece String Band 'Arkansauce' to Perform in HogTown Saturday — Arkansas Razorbacks (arkansasrazorbacks.com); High-Octane String Band, Arkansauce, Independently Releases 'OK to Wonder' — Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Award-winning Arkansauce, Adam Faucett provide the music for Bridge Street Live — Visit Hot Springs (hotsprings.org); KUAF and Folk School Fayetteville present Arkansauce — NPR Live Sessions (livesessions.npr.org); Live music: New Year's Eve fun starts tonight — NWA Online (nwaonline.com); Celebrate New Year's Eve in NWA — Experience Fayetteville (experiencefayetteville.com); Fayetteville's George's Majestic Lounge celebrates 90 years in business — Talk Business & Politics (talkbusiness.net)