Spafford books a midweek night at The Regency Live

The improv-rock band, touring behind this summer's studio album Cat Shop, plays Springfield on Wednesday, February 17.

Here's something to get Springfield through February. Spafford plays The Regency Live on Wednesday, February 17, 2027. The date was announced October 28, and tickets are through The Regency Live. The room holds 850, which is the right size for a jam band to stretch out on a weeknight.

Spafford has had a busy year. In June the band released *Cat Shop*, its new studio album, on June 19, as a double LP with exclusive demos and on CD, according to Grateful Web. Singles "High Beams" and "Sweet" came first. Earlier in the year the band put out *Flight of Fall*, a live album from its fall 2025 tour, per Grateful Web. Releasing both a live record and a studio record in one year tells you how this band works: the songs get written, then they get rebuilt on stage.

The live side is still the main draw. This fall the band added Southeast dates beginning November 10 at the Barley Taproom in Knoxville, as JamBase and Jambands reported, then added December dates on top of that. The band also debuted a cover of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" in Buffalo, per JamBase, and played a two-night Phish after-party run at New York's Cutting Room that Grateful Web said went deep. A band that's willing to play a Radiohead ballad one night and jam past midnight in New York the next is going to be loose by February.

A *Cat Shop* tour stop on a Wednesday in February, in an 850-capacity room.

For Springfield, a Wednesday booking is a plus. Weeknight shows draw the people who really want to be there, and they tend to stay to the end. The Regency Live is big enough to bring in the jam crowd from across the Ozarks and small enough that the band will be able to read the room, and for a group that improvises, that matters.

There's no listed start time yet, so check the Regency's site as it gets closer, and plan to take Thursday morning slow. The new album will have had eight months on the road by then, and you'll hear the result.

Sources: Spafford Announces New Studio Album "Cat Shop" — Out June 19, 2026 (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Spafford Releases New Single "High Beams" Ahead of Cat Shop (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Spafford Releases New Album Cat Shop (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Spafford Releases New Live Album "Flight of Fall" Capturing Fall 2025 Tour (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Spafford Expands Fall Tour 2026 (JamBase) (jambase.com); Spafford set Southeast dates (Jambands) (jambands.com); Spafford Adds December 2026 Tour Dates (JamBase) (jambase.com); Spafford Debuts Radiohead Cover In Buffalo (JamBase) (jambase.com); Spafford Goes Deep During Two-Night Phish After-Party Run at The Cutting Room (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); The Regency Live (theregencylive.com)