Jasmine Cain comes back to Sioux Falls for the first time since 2015

The Sturgis-raised hard rocker, out on the road behind this year's "Hurt," plays Bigs Bar on Friday, Dec. 18.

The last time Jasmine Cain played Sioux Falls, it was Aug. 15, 2015, at the Thirsty Duck. More than eleven years later, the South Dakota-raised rocker is coming back: Friday, Dec. 18, at Bigs Bar.

The date was announced Oct. 22. Music starts at 8 p.m., and tickets run $10 to $50 through Eventbrite. Bigs holds about 300, which makes this a close-up, sweaty, week-before-Christmas kind of rock show.

The gap is the story, and so is the homecoming angle. Cain grew up in Sturgis, and she moved to Nashville in 2003. She has spent the years since carving out a lane that very few artists occupy: female-fronted hard rock aimed squarely at the motorcycle-rally circuit, where she is credited as a pioneer. If you have been to the rally out west, there's a decent chance you have heard her from a stage you were standing a long way back from. Bigs Bar puts her a lot closer.

A lot has changed since that 2015 show. In 2024 she won Rock Artist of the Year at the Josie Awards, and she now counts eight independent albums. This year has been one of her busiest for new music. Her single "Hurt" came out in February 2026, followed by a music video in April; Femmetal Rocks described it as a song about betrayal and walking away from toxic situations. A lyric video for "Are You Ready" followed in early May. She even shot a music video in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

More than eleven years after the Thirsty Duck, the Sturgis-raised rocker is back.

She has kept the road schedule full to match. The winter opened with Florida dates, including a January show at the South Florida Fair, and the summer brought shows through the Midwest and back toward the Black Hills. Sioux Falls is the one stop in South Dakota's biggest city that took eleven years to land.

What to expect at Bigs: a metal-leaning rock set, loud and direct, from a frontwoman who has spent two decades learning how to hold an outdoor crowd that came for the bikes and stayed for the band. In a 300-cap bar that energy has nowhere to go but at you. Expect the new singles alongside the older catalog, and expect the crowd to include more than a few people who remember her from rally week.

The low end of that $10 to $50 range is a bargain for a show like this, and in a room that size it will not last into the week of the show. Grab tickets through the link on this page.

Welcome home, more or less. It's been a while.

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