Sister Hazel book House of Blues for a January Saturday

The Gainesville band's Jan. 16, 2027 show at House of Blues, with Dyer Davis opening, closes out a run of Florida dates.

Florida's own are coming back up the turnpike. Sister Hazel play House of Blues on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2027, at 7 p.m., with Dyer Davis opening. Tickets run $35 to $236 through Ticketmaster.

The date was announced Oct. 27, and with House of Blues holding about 1,500, it's the kind of in-state Saturday that tends to draw people who've been following this band for decades.

That following goes back a long way. Sister Hazel formed in Gainesville in 1993, according to Wikipedia, and broke nationally with "All for You," the single from 1997's Somewhere More Familiar that reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is still the band's biggest song, per its own entry). Nearly thirty years later, it's the one everybody waits for.

But this isn't only a nostalgia act. The band's most recent album, Sand, Sea & Crash Debris, was announced in fall 2024 with a release date of Nov. 15 that year, alongside the song "Live Again," as antiMusic reported. Two years on, those songs have had time to settle into the set next to the old ones.

The Orlando date sits at the end of a short Florida swing. Ponte Vedra Concert Hall has the band on Jan. 14, two nights before House of Blues. Later in the spring they head north, with an April 30 date at the Oxford Performing Arts Center in Pennsylvania.

Sister Hazel's fans have a reputation for showing up. The band's annual fan gathering, the Hazelnut Hang, has been big enough to get its own explainer from the Charleston City Paper, and singer-guitarist Drew Copeland has talked about the band's long run in interviews like this one. A Saturday night two hours from where it all started is a natural place for that crowd to turn out.

Nearly thirty years later, "All for You" is still the one everybody waits for.

When to buy: now, if you want the cheaper end of that $35 to $236 range. A wide spread like that usually means the floor and the front go first. The listing is on JamBase.

January in Orlando is about as good as winter gets anywhere. A home-state band, a Saturday night and a chorus you already know the words to is a decent way to spend one.

Sources: Sister Hazel - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); All for You (Sister Hazel song) - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); antiMusic: Sister Hazel share Live Again, announce Sand, Sea & Crash Debris (musicpressbox.antimusic.com); Ponte Vedra Concert Hall: Sister Hazel 2027 (pvconcerthall.com); Oxford Performing Arts Center: Sister Hazel (oxfordpac.org); Charleston City Paper: Making sense of the Windjammer's annual Hazelnut Hang (charlestoncitypaper.com); Undefined With Bella: Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel talks (undefinedwithbella.substack.com); Ticketmaster tickets (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase listing (jambase.com)