Common Kings return to Muckleshoot on Feb. 20

The Grammy-nominated island-reggae band from Orange County is booked into Auburn’s 2,800-capacity events center on a Saturday night in February. Tickets went on sale Oct. 31.

February in the South Sound tends to be cold and wet. Common Kings make music for the other kind of weather. The band plays the Muckleshoot Events Center in Auburn on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2027, at 8 p.m., a date announced Oct. 22.

General on-sale opened Saturday, Oct. 31, at 10 a.m. Pacific through Ticketmaster, which lists the room at the casino's address, 2402 Auburn Way S. The events center holds about 2,800, which is big enough for a party and small enough that nobody is watching from the next county.

This is a return trip. The band's Ticketmaster page shows a February 2025 show in the same room, and fan reviews from that night are still posted there. A repeat booking two winters later says the first one went well.

If the name is new to you, here is the short version. Common Kings formed in Orange County, Calif., when the members were students at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, and they began recording in 2011, according to Wikipedia's entry on the band. The lineup is singer Sasualei "Jr. King" Maliga, guitarist Taumata "Mata" Grey, bassist Ivan "Uncle Lui" Kirimaua and drummer Jerome "Big Rome" Taito. The band's own site says its members are Pacific Islanders, and the name honors their roots in Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa and Tonga.

The sound is reggae built for a good time: island rhythms with some rock under it and pop hooks on top, and the bill lists them under both pop and reggae. Their 2017 debut album, *Lost in Paradise*, released on the band's own Island Empire label, topped Billboard's Reggae Albums chart and was nominated for the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. Along the way they have opened for Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and Meghan Trainor, as well as headlining their own shows and festivals.

In a room this size, the crowd becomes the show as much as the band does.

What to know: tickets are on sale now, the show starts at 8, and Ticketmaster is the seller, so buy there instead of from a reseller. Then mark your calendar, start a family group chat, and plan to leave the rain jacket in the car.

Sources: Common Kings, Auburn, Feb 20, 2027 (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net); Common Kings tour dates (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.com); About – Common Kings (commonkings.com); Common Kings (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Lost in Paradise (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org)