Zach Seabaugh comes back to Portland at Show Bar in January

The singer-songwriter who went from The Voice to indie folk plays Show Bar at Revolution Hall on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2027, his first Portland date since 2024.

The last time Zach Seabaugh played Portland, it was Oct. 14, 2024, at Polaris Hall, the year he took his first headline tour on the road. A little more than two years later, he's back for a winter weeknight.

Seabaugh plays Show Bar at Revolution Hall on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2027, at 8pm. The date was announced Oct. 19, and tickets are through Etix.

If the name rings a bell from television, that's the place to start. Seabaugh, originally from Marietta, Georgia, landed a spot on Blake Shelton's team during Season 9 of NBC's *The Voice* at 16, and finished in the top five. The country world noticed first. After the show, he released a self-titled five-song EP in the summer of 2016 that entered the iTunes Country Album Chart at No. 3 and Billboard's country chart at No. 25.

A Voice finalist at 16, now writing indie folk about missing home.

What happened next is the more interesting part. He moved to the Nashville area in 2017 to attend Middle Tennessee State University, and the music drifted from straight country toward something looser. His current bio describes him as an indie singer-songwriter whose sound blends pop, folk and rock. A song like "Eastern Time," which Glide Magazine premiered as a soulful indie folk tune nostalgic for home, shows where he's landed: less reality-show polish, more songwriter.

That shift is why the 2024 headline run mattered, and why a return to Portland is worth noticing. When Melodic Magazine covered the fall tour announcement in June 2024, it marked the point where he stopped being a former contestant and started being a touring artist with his own crowd. Coming back to the same city two years later suggests that crowd showed up.

This is a show for people who like to hear a songwriter up close. A Thursday in late January isn't anyone's idea of a big night out, which tends to mean the room is full of people who came specifically for him. An 8pm start keeps it a reasonable weeknight.

If you want to come in prepared, start with "Eastern Time," then go back to the 2016 EP to hear how far the sound has traveled from Nashville country to something more personal.

Portland in January, a Thursday night and a songwriter still figuring out what home sounds like. Worth putting on the calendar.

Sources: JamBase: Zach Seabaugh at Show Bar at Revolution Hall (jambase.com); Etix: Zach Seabaugh, Show Bar at Revolution Hall (etix.com); Zach Seabaugh bio (One More Media press pass) (onemoremedia.beehiiv.com); Riverhouse Artists: Zach Seabaugh (riverhouseartists.com); Carolina Country Music Fest: Zach Seabaugh (carolinacountrymusicfest.com); Glide Magazine: Zach Seabaugh 'Eastern Time' song premiere (glidemagazine.com); Melodic Magazine: Zach Seabaugh Announces Fall Tour (melodicmag.com); Patch: Local advances on The Voice (new.patch.com)