Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country books Meow Wolf for March 3

Fresh off a Ryman headlining debut and a live album to show for it, the guitarist brings his band to Santa Fe's 400-capacity stage on a Wednesday in March.

Somewhere inside Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, past the rooms most visitors come for, there is a stage built for live music, and on Wednesday, March 3, 2027, Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country is booked to fill it. Meow Wolf's Santa Fe events page lists the show with doors at 8 p.m., and the date was announced Oct. 21.

The room holds about 400. Tickets are sold through Meow Wolf's own ticketing site, tickets.meowwolf.com, and Meow Wolf warns buyers away from resellers, so that is the one link to use.

If the name is new to you, Donato is a guitarist and bandleader whose group bills itself as Cosmic Country, a label that sits somewhere between rock, folk and the jam-band habit of letting a song run as long as it wants to.

The last year has been a big one for the band. According to Donato's own site, the group released its second studio album, *Horizons*, on Aug. 22, 2025, the same day it played its sold-out debut as a headliner at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. That Ryman night became the band's first live album, *Ryman to Robert's*, out on Retrace Music. Meow Wolf's listing describes the latest record as Donato's second all-original album.

A guitar band built to stretch out, in a room built to make you lose track of where you are.

This fall Donato has been working through rooms back east and across the middle of the country, with stops listed in Boston, Washington, D.C., Hartford, Denver, Little Rock, Asheville and Ardmore, Pennsylvania, running into December.

Why Meow Wolf? Part of it is just fit. The Santa Fe flagship includes a concert venue alongside the installation itself, and a band that leans on long, exploratory instrumental passages makes sense in a building designed to make you lose track of where you are. Part of it is scale. At around 400, it is a room where you can watch a guitar player's hands, which is a big part of the draw with Donato.

For Santa Fe, it is also a midweek show on the early side of spring, before the festival season pulls bands toward bigger fields. A Wednesday in March is the kind of booking that rewards locals who are paying attention, and 400 tickets on a single night tends to move faster than people expect.

Meow Wolf is at 1352 Rufina Circle. Check the event page for set times closer to the date, since only the 8 p.m. doors time is posted so far. Doors at 8 on a Wednesday means a late one for a work night, so plan Thursday morning accordingly.

If you have been meaning to see what all the Cosmic Country talk is about, this is a good way in: a small room, a strange building and a band that likes to wander. Bring a friend who still hasn't been to Meow Wolf. They'll have two reasons to thank you.

Sources: Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country - Meow Wolf Santa Fe event (tickets.meowwolf.com); Meow Wolf Santa Fe Events (tickets.meowwolf.com); Meow Wolf Santa Fe: Hours & Location (meowwolf.com); Tour - Daniel Donato (danieldonato.com); Daniel Donato official site (danieldonato.com); Meow Wolf - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)