Lake Street Dive is coming back to Philadelphia, with a hometown funk band in tow

The band's first Philly date since a 2024 night at the Mann lands at The Met on Tuesday, March 9, three weeks after a new album and with Philadelphia's own SNACKTIME opening.

The last time Lake Street Dive played Philadelphia, it was a mid-September night at TD Pavilion at the Mann, Sep 15, 2024, the kind of late-summer outdoor show where half the crowd is still finding their seats when the harmonies start. More than two years later, the band has a date back on the calendar, and this time it comes indoors and with a brand-new record behind it.

Lake Street Dive plays The Met Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 9, 2027, at 8pm, with SNACKTIME opening. The show was announced Oct 26, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Met is a room that holds about 3,500, a solid step up in intimacy from the Mann's lawn and pavilion.

The reason for the trip is the band's ninth album, *What About Flamingos?*, which is due Friday, Feb. 19, 2027, on the band's own independent label, Dive Not Drive Records, according to JamBase's tour announcement. The band hits the road a week after release for the first leg of the What About Flamingos? 2027 tour, a 15-date North American run from Feb. 26 through March 21. Philadelphia falls deep into that stretch, after stops including Omaha's Steelhouse on Feb. 27 and Nashville's The Truth on March 5, and shortly before Toronto's History on March 17, per the band's Live Nation tour listings. The run wraps in Detroit, Louisville and Peoria, Illinois, March 19 through 21.

That timing matters for anyone going. By March 9 the new songs will have been out for less than three weeks, which is about the sweet spot: long enough that the room will know the singles, early enough that the band will still be figuring out which deep cuts land live. If you've only ever seen them run through the catalog, this is the version of the tour where the new material is the point.

The local angle is the opener. SNACKTIME is a Philadelphia-based funk band, and it's opening every date on the run except one, a March 6 stop in Greenville, South Carolina, billed as "An Evening With Lake Street Dive," according to SeatGeek's tour rundown. That means a hometown group spending a month in front of Lake Street Dive crowds across the continent, and then getting one night where the audience is their own. Expect the March 9 opening set to feel less like a warm-up and more like a homecoming.

A hometown group spends a month in front of Lake Street Dive crowds, then gets one night where the audience is their own.

On the business end: presales for the tour opened in late October, per SeatGeek and TicketNews, so if you're reading this in November, the general sale is the window you're working with. A Tuesday in March isn't anyone's idea of a big night out, but it does mean the Broad Street crowd will be the people who really wanted to be there.

The genre tags on this one run indie, folk and country, which is a fair summary of a band that has always been hard to file. The cleaner way to put it: it's been more than two years, there's a new record, and the opener lives here. Mark the Tuesday.

Sources: Lake Street Dive Lines Up Winter 2027 Album Release Tour (JamBase) (jambase.com); Lake Street Dive events (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Lake Street Dive What About Flamingos 2027 Tour (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Lake Street Dive announce 2027 What About Flamingos tour dates, presales (SeatGeek) (seatgeek.com); Lake Street Dive 2027 tour dates (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Lake Street Dive at The Met Philadelphia (JamBase) (jambase.com); Tickets (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net)