Jesse & Joy book The Masonic for April, with Joy leading the way

The Grammy-winning Mexican duo's "El Amor de México" tour reaches San Francisco on April 16, 2027, its first city date since 2022, while Jesse Huerta takes a pause from the stage.

The last time Jesse & Joy played San Francisco, it was April 2022 at The Regency Ballroom. The next time will be a bigger room, a new tour name, and a different picture on stage.

Jesse & Joy play The Masonic on Friday, April 16, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster, where the date is listed under the tour's name, El Amor de México. It was announced Oct. 26, and it ends a four-year gap for one of the most successful pop acts Mexico has sent north, a duo Live Nation describes as Grammy-winning.

The news fans need before they buy: according to Mexican outlets including LOS40 and Plano Informativo, Jesse Huerta has stepped into a temporary pause from the duo to focus on his family and wellbeing, and won't be part of the 2027 dates. Joy Huerta is carrying the Jesse & Joy project forward and leading the tour, which opens in Mexico in February and, per those reports, continues into the United States and Canada in April and May. Zeta Tijuana reported in September that Joy would continue with the project after her brother's temporary exit. Jesse, meanwhile, is developing a solo project under the name Jesse & The Supernovas, El Comercio reports.

It's a real change for an act built on two voices, and it reframes this return. Plano Informativo put it as a role reversal, with Joy now the figure at the front of the next chapter. A Bay Area crowd that has waited four years will be among the first in the U.S. to hear what that sounds like.

The dates around it give a sense of the tour's scale. The Mexican leg runs through Toluca, Querétaro, Puebla, Veracruz and a Valentine's Day show at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional, per LOS40, before Joy brings it north. Before any of that, there's a "Christmas Edition" run in December in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara.

The Masonic is a step up in size from the Regency, holding about 3,481, and that's a fair measure of what the duo's songs mean to listeners here. Jesse & Joy's catalog has been a constant in Spanish-language pop for two decades, the kind of songs that turn a theater into a sing-along before the first chorus is out. Expect the room to carry plenty of the harmony parts itself.

There's something fitting about an "El Amor de México" tour landing in San Francisco, a city where those songs have soundtracked a lot of family gatherings and long drives. Whatever the duo's future holds, the Masonic is where Bay Area fans get to be part of this chapter of it.

Tickets are at the link above. If you're going for the songs you grew up singing, bring your voice. Joy will probably need the help.

Sources: Joy Huerta anuncia conciertos en el Auditorio Nacional para 2027 sin la compañía de Jesse — LOS40 México (los40.com.mx); Joy Huerta confirma gira de conciertos para 2027 sin Jesse — Plano Informativo (planoinformativo.com); Joy Huerta continuará con Jesse & Joy tras salida temporal de su hermano — Zeta Tijuana (zetatijuana.com); Jesse Huerta inicia proyecto solista tras hacer una pausa con Jesse y Joy — El Comercio (elcomercio.com); The timeless songs of Jesse & Joy return to the stage — The Music Universe (themusicuniverse.com); The Grammy-winning Mexican duo will embark on a 29-date tour of the US and Canada — Live Nation (livenationentertainment.com); Jesse & Joy: El Amor de México, San Francisco — Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com)