Elijah Scott books the Guild Theatre for Saturday, March 6

The Banning, California songwriter brings his country-and-soul storytelling to Menlo Park's 500-capacity room in March, and tickets are already on sale.

Most show announcements are about next weekend. This one is about the long game: Elijah Scott has put Saturday, March 6, 2027 on the calendar at The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, and tickets went on sale the same week the date went public.

The show was announced Nov. 2. Music starts at 8 p.m., and the Guild holds 500, a size where a songwriter on the way up can fill the room and still be close enough to see faces in the back row. Tickets are through OpenDate.

If the name is new to you, here is the short version. Scott is a country-Americana singer-songwriter from Banning, California, and his songs draw on more than the usual Nashville well. His own billing describes country and Americana storytelling blended with hip hop, Chicano soul and R&B, which is the kind of mix that makes more sense the first time you hear it than it does on paper.

Promoter copy for his shows keeps coming back to the voice: raw, soulful and gritty, with a bluesy edge. The song that broke him out is "Cigarettes," and the listings for his summer nights at Blue Note Hawaii pointed people toward "Turnin Into Something" as well. If you are deciding whether to buy, those two are the place to start.

He has spent 2026 on the road. Over the summer he ran the In A Bar Somewhere Tour, which had him in Washington, D.C. on July 8, and he played Blue Note Hawaii in Honolulu in July. His fall tour carries him into Texas, with a stop at the Jefferson Theater in Beaumont on Nov. 21. By the time March rolls around, the Guild will come at the end of a long year of nights in rooms about this size, which tends to be when a singer sounds most sure of the material.

Country-Americana storytelling with hip hop, Chicano soul and R&B in the mix.

That is a big part of why the Guild fits. A 500-capacity theater is a listening room at heart. For a singer whose draw is the words and the grain of the voice as much as anything, that matters more than a bigger stage or a louder system. It also means the night is likely to feel personal in a way the arena-sized end of country rarely does.

For Peninsula and South Bay fans, the date is far enough out to plan around and close enough to sneak up on you. It is a Saturday, so it is an easy one to build an evening around, and the 8 p.m. start leaves room for dinner first.

The practical advice is simple. If "Cigarettes" is already in your rotation, buy now and stop thinking about it. If it is not, put it on tonight, give "Turnin Into Something" a spin after it, and decide by the weekend. Shows in rooms this size have a way of being easy to get into in November and a lot harder in February.

March 6 feels far off. Write it down anyway.

Sources: Elijah Scott at The Guild Theatre — OpenDate tickets (app.opendate.io); Elijah Scott at The Guild Theatre — JamBase (jambase.com); Elijah Scott Fall Tour 2026 — Downtown Beaumont (downtownbeaumont.org); Elijah Scott at Blue Note Hawaii — Hawaiʻi Public Radio (hawaiipublicradio.org); Elijah Scott at Blue Note Hawaii — Hawaiʻi Public Radio (hawaiipublicradio.org); Elijah Scott: In A Bar Somewhere Tour, July 8, 2026 — OpenDate (app.opendate.io)