The Wilder Blue bring 'Cinco' to The Ramkat in February

The Texas band's fifth album gets a Winston-Salem stage on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2027.

February in the Triad is a long month for live music, the stretch where the calendar thins out and a good Thursday-night show feels like a reward for getting through the winter. The Wilder Blue just put one on the books.

The band announced on Oct. 26 that it will play The Ramkat in Winston-Salem on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2027, with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are available now through Etix. The Ramkat holds about 1,000, a size that suits a band built on harmonies you want to actually hear.

The date arrives a little over five months after The Wilder Blue released its fifth studio album, *Cinco*, on Aug. 28, 2026. Music Row reported that the band was readying the ten-track record for an August release, and the announcement noted a first for the group: *Cinco* brings in outside musicians and songwriters, something the band had not done on earlier records. Lead single "Chasin' the Sun" arrived in late July, per BroadwayWorld, and "When He's Out of Sight" followed in mid-August, as Grateful Web and Saving Country Music covered the rollout.

That makes *Cinco* the follow-up to *Still in the Runnin'*, which the band released in March 2025. Country radio station 99.5 QYK described that record as a fan-funded album from a Texas supergroup, a detail that says something about the kind of audience this band has built: people who were willing to pay for the record before it existed. Two albums in roughly eighteen months is a steady clip, and it means a February set will have plenty of new material to work through.

The band's publicists at Sacks & Co. have tracked the group's rise through press releases and artist notes, and the fall headline run that launched alongside *Cinco* opened in Houston and Austin on release weekend. A February stop in Winston-Salem pushes that campaign into the new year and into a part of the country where country and folk crowds have long had a soft spot for strong vocal bands.

The Ramkat is a good fit for that. It's big enough to carry a full band with some volume, but it doesn't swallow the quieter moments, and Thursday crowds there tend to come to listen. For a group whose calling card is stacked harmony as much as guitar, that matters.

If you've been playing *Cinco* since August, this is the chance to hear how those songs land in a room. If you haven't caught up yet, there are three months to do your homework. Either way, circle Feb. 11, leave work on time, and get down to the Ramkat before eight.

Sources: The Wilder Blue tickets – Etix (etix.prf.hn); Music Row: The Wilder Blue readies fifth album Cinco for August release (musicrow.com); BroadwayWorld: The Wilder Blue to Release New Album Cinco With Lead Single Chasin' The Sun (broadwayworld.com); Grateful Web: The Wilder Blue Announce New Album Cinco, Share 'Chasin' The Sun' (gratefulweb.com); Saving Country Music: The Wilder Blue Announce New Album 'Cinco' (savingcountrymusic.com); Music Row: The Wilder Blue releases Still in the Runnin' (musicrow.com); 99.5 QYK: The Wilder Blue: Texas Supergroup Drops Fan-Funded Album 'Still In The Runnin'' (995qyk.com); Sacks & Co.: The Wilder Blue press releases (sacksco.com); JamBase: The Wilder Blue at The Ramkat (jambase.com)