Portugal. The Man's first Tucson show since 2017 lands in a former monastery chapel

The band plays La Rosa on Wednesday, Jan. 20, nearly a decade after its last Tucson stop at the Rialto, and in a room that didn't exist the last time they came through.

The last time Portugal. The Man played Tucson, it was St. Patrick's Day 2017 at the Rialto Theatre. When the band comes back in January, it'll be to a room that didn't exist then: a restored Benedictine monastery chapel in midtown that now goes by La Rosa.

The details: Portugal. The Man plays La Rosa on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2027, with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets run $14.75 to $151 through See Tickets. The date was announced Oct. 27, and it's the band's first Tucson show since March 17, 2017, at the Rialto.

La Rosa is the reason this booking feels like an event. The venue sits in a former Benedictine monastery at 800 N. Country Club Road, transformed through a roughly $6 million renovation into a concert hall that holds about 750 people, according to Axios and BizTucson. It's run by David Slutes, a former music director at Hotel Congress, and Charlie Levy, who owns Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom. Orkesta Mendoza christened the room in front of a sold-out crowd of 750 on Oct. 10, 2025, and the early calendar included Calexico, DeVotchKa and Built to Spill, per KGUN and Tucson Weekly. The stated aim, per Axios, is for La Rosa to be a new cultural anchor for the city.

A band built for festival fields, in a chapel that holds about 750.

For Portugal. The Man, this is a chance to play to Tucson at a much closer scale than a lot of the rooms the band has filled over the years. And the band arrives with plenty of new music to work with. *SHISH* came out on Nov. 7, 2025, through KNIK, the band's imprint with Thirty Tigers, and the group launched its Denali tour alongside it, according to The Music Universe. The single "Denali" was covered by Relix, and Far Out wrote about the record as well. The band's North American run that fall included a Nov. 29 show in Boston, photographed by New England Sounds.

So the January show catches the band more than a year into the *SHISH* era, with those songs road-tested and settled into the set alongside older material. For Tucson fans who last saw them nearly ten years ago, it's a substantially different band in a substantially different room.

A word on tickets: the price range here is wide, from $14.75 up to $151, which suggests several tiers. Check what each includes on See Tickets before you buy. At around 750 capacity, La Rosa doesn't leave much room for latecomers on a show like this, so the sooner the better. Updates will show up on the JamBase listing.

A Wednesday night in January, a band that hasn't been here in almost a decade, and a chapel that's barely a year into its second life as a concert hall. Tucson doesn't get many combinations like that. Go see what it sounds like.

Sources: A Tucson church becomes Arizona's newest music venue – Axios (axios.com); From Convent to Concert Hall – BizTucson (biztucson.com); New music venue set inside midtown monastery announces first wave of concerts – KGUN 9 (kgun9.com); La Rosa – Tucson Weekly (tucsonweekly.com); Portugal. The Man announces new album and global tour – The Music Universe (themusicuniverse.com); Portugal. The Man Share New Single "Denali" – Relix (relix.com); Portugal. The Man new album – Far Out (faroutmagazine.co.uk); PHOTOS: Portugal. The Man in Boston, MA (11.29.25) – New England Sounds (newenglandsounds.com); Portugal. The Man tickets – See Tickets (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us); Portugal. The Man at La Rosa – JamBase (jambase.com)