Tyler Nance Brings His First Headline Tour to Gallettes on the Strip

The Missouri songwriter behind the viral "Keeps Me Sane" plays a Thursday night, Nov. 5, at a Tuscaloosa bar that's been pouring Yellowhammers since 1976.

There's no sign on the building, and there hasn't been since 1976. If you know Tuscaloosa, you don't need one: Gallettes is the bar under the Campus Party Store awning on University Boulevard. On Thursday, Nov. 5, it adds a country singer to its usual mix of TVs and Yellowhammers. Tyler Nance plays Gallettes, a stop on his first headline tour.

The basics: Thursday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m., Gallettes, 1021 University Blvd. Tickets are on Ticketmaster, and Live Nation's venue page lists the same date and time. Ticketmaster's listing also names Brendan Walter on the lineup, so expect an opener. It's a weeknight on the Strip in football season, so plan your parking (or your walk) accordingly.

Nance is from Lamar, Missouri, and his rise has been quick. His single "Keeps Me Sane," co-written with Brent McCollough and Donnie Napier and released in July 2025, went viral and brought him an audience well beyond the Midwest. According to his Wikipedia entry, he has released EPs and is still working toward a full-length debut. That makes this fall's run his introduction to rooms full of people who know the song before they know much else about him.

A first headline tour, a viral single and a sign-less bar on the Strip: that's how a Thursday in Tuscaloosa turns into a story people tell later.

The run is called the Midwest Memoir Tour, and MusicRow reported in July that it's the first headline tour of his career. It opened Oct. 28 in Oxford, Mississippi, and works through SEC country this week: Athens tonight, Columbia on Saturday, then Tuscaloosa on Thursday before a Nov. 7 show at Nashville's Exit/In. Later dates take him to Orlando on Nov. 21 and Lexington on Dec. 2. Our records show no earlier Tuscaloosa show for him, so this is his first time playing here as far as we know.

The room matters here. Nance's usual headline room on this tour holds about 375 people, and Gallettes is that kind of bar: close quarters, loud and packed with people who came to hear one song and will probably stay for the rest of the set. Visit Tuscaloosa calls it a game-day favorite and a city tradition, and says it serves more than 5,000 custom game-day cups of its signature Yellowhammer every home game. A Thursday in November isn't a home game, but it's close enough to feel like one.

If you're new to Nance, start with "Keeps Me Sane" and work back through the EPs. If you already know the song, Thursday is a chance to hear it in a bar before the rooms get bigger.

Sources: Ticketmaster — Tyler Nance, Tuscaloosa, 11-05-2026 (ticketmaster.com); Live Nation — Gallettes Tuscaloosa events (livenation.com); Live Nation — Tyler Nance events (livenation.com); MusicRow — Tyler Nance to launch first-ever headline tour in October (musicrow.com); Wikipedia — Tyler Nance (en.wikipedia.org); Visit Tuscaloosa — Gallettes (visittuscaloosa.com)