49 Winchester bring the Change of Plans Tour home to The Exchange

Southwest Virginia's 49 Winchester play Roanoke's newest big room on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2027, behind their Dave Cobb–produced album.

For a band from Castlewood, a Roanoke date is about as close to a hometown crowd as a national tour gets. 49 Winchester have put The Exchange on their 2027 Change of Plans Tour, and the night is Thursday, February 18, 2027. Expect a lot of people in the room who have been following this band since long before the bigger stages.

The tour was announced October 20. An artist presale opened October 21, and general on-sale followed Friday, October 23, at 10 a.m. local time, according to tour coverage. Tickets are sold through Afton Tickets, the venue's own box office, under the banner "The Exchange Presents."

The album behind the run is Change of Plans, released May 15, 2026, on Lucille Records/MCA. Dave Cobb executive produced it at his studio in Savannah, per the band's label announcement. The band is a six-piece built around singer-songwriter Isaac Gibson and his childhood friend Chase Chafin, with Bus Shelton, Noah Patrick, Tim Hall and Justin Louthian, per the bio on New West Records. Their mix of country, Southern rock and folk has carried them from regional favorites to a tour that opens at The Eastern in Atlanta on February 5 and closes at Billy Bob's in Fort Worth on May 8.

The room is a story of its own. The Exchange Music Hall sits in the old First National Exchange Bank building at 201 S. Jefferson Street, a 1912 landmark that stood empty after the bank closed in 2016. The team behind FloydFest, Across-the-Way Productions, programs it, and it opened with a New Year's Eve 2025 show that drew more than 1,000 people, according to Cardinal News. The building also holds a boutique hotel, The Promissory, and the restaurant ¡Suerte!, so a show night can be a whole downtown evening. WDBJ reported before the opening that the hall was meant to honor the building's history while bringing national acts to town.

That is the gap The Exchange set out to fill: a downtown room sized for touring bands that had been skipping Roanoke or playing the region's festivals instead. A band like 49 Winchester, too big for a bar and a natural fit for a FloydFest crowd, is exactly the kind of booking it was built for. Its fall calendar, on the venue's Afton page, already runs from Greensky Bluegrass to Samantha Fish.

A Castlewood band in a Roanoke bank vault turned music hall, on a Thursday in February.

If Thursday doesn't work, the nearest alternative on the routing is The Fillmore in Charlotte two nights later, on February 20. But this is the one to make. Few things in a touring calendar beat a Southwest Virginia band playing to a Southwest Virginia room. No opener has been announced yet.

Sources: Afton Tickets — The Exchange Presents: 49 Winchester, Change of Plans Tour (aftontickets.com); Afton Tickets — The Exchange (aftontickets.com); uDiscover Music — 49 Winchester Announces 2027 'Change of Plans' Tour (udiscovermusic.com); MusicRow — 49 Winchester Slate New 'Change Of Plans Tour' (musicrow.com); Universal Music Canada — 49 Winchester release new album Change of Plans (universalmusic.ca); New West Records — 49 Winchester, Change of Plans (newwestrecords.com); Cardinal News — Roanoke's newest venue fills a niche in the city's music scene (cardinalnews.org); WDBJ — Exchange Music Hall to pay homage to its history, includes national acts (wdbj7.com); FloydFest Makes Its Celebratory Return With Billy Strings, Leftover Salmon, and Goose - Rolling Stone (rollingstone.com)