Lake Street Dive ends its 'What About Flamingos?' tour in Peoria, its first visit since 2018

The band's winter album-release run closes at Prairie Home Alliance Theater on Sunday, March 21, 2027. Tickets went on sale Friday.

The last time Lake Street Dive played Peoria, it was a club night at Monarch Music Hall on Sept. 1, 2018. When the band comes back, it's to close a tour. On Sunday, March 21, 2027, Lake Street Dive plays Prairie Home Alliance Theater at 7 p.m., the final night of its "What About Flamingos?" tour, with SNACKTIME opening.

Tickets went on sale to the public Friday, Oct. 30, at 10 a.m. local time, after artist, Citi cardmember and VIP presales on Oct. 28. Live Nation and Ticketmaster are handling sales.

The tour is built around a new record. *What About Flamingos?* is due Feb. 19, 2027, on the band's own Dive Not Drive Records, and the run that follows its release is a tight one: 15 North American dates, starting Feb. 26 at Vibrant Music Hall in Waukee, Iowa, and ending three weeks later in Peoria, after back-to-back nights in Detroit on March 19 and Louisville on March 20. SNACKTIME opens 14 of the 15 shows.

Final nights tend to be the loosest, and the band will be playing songs that are a month old.

That timing is the selling point for Peoria. By March 21 the new songs will have had 15 shows to settle in and the band will have figured out which ones land. Last nights of tours also tend to bring a little more: extended jams, a cover the band has been saving, the crew on stage for the bow. None of that is guaranteed, but it's the reason fans travel for closing nights.

The room is a big step up from 2018. Moving from Monarch Music Hall to the theater at the Peoria Civic Center (now branded Prairie Home Alliance Theater, with about 2,200 seats) says something about how the band's audience has grown here over eight years. A seated theater suits a band that leans on vocal harmonies and arrangements as much as on volume. It's a room where you'll hear the details.

SNACKTIME is a smart pairing, too. Getting there for the opener is worth it.

Practical notes: it's a Sunday, 7 p.m. start, and the album will be about a month old by then. Use the next few months to learn it.

Eight and a half years is a long time between visits. Peoria's crowd now has the chance to show why the band picked it for the finale.

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