49 Winchester bring the Change of Plans Tour to the Cotillion

The Appalachian country-rock band plays Wichita on Friday, Feb. 26, 2027, about three weeks into a headline run behind their sixth album, and tickets are on sale now.

Some bands you find on the radio. With 49 Winchester, people usually hear about them from a friend who caught them live and won't stop talking about it. Wichita gets its chance this winter: 49 Winchester play the Cotillion on Friday, Feb. 26, 2027, on the band's newly announced Change of Plans Tour.

The Cotillion lists the show on its calendar with doors at 7 p.m. and music at 8 p.m. It's all ages, at 11120 W. Kellogg. Tickets went on general sale Friday, Oct. 23, after an artist presale on Oct. 21, and they're available through the venue's official Etix page or the box office at (316) 722-4201. The Cotillion's homepage listing showed tickets at $38.03.

The tour is built around the new record. *Change of Plans* is the band's sixth studio album and their first for Lucille Records / MCA, with GRAMMY-winning producer Dave Cobb as executive producer, according to the tour announcement reported by The Music Universe. Cobb's name on a country record usually signals a certain sound: live in the room, not much gloss, the band audible as a band. That suits a group whose reputation was built on the road.

The headline run opens Feb. 5 at The Eastern in Atlanta and closes May 8 at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth. That puts Wichita a little over three weeks in, once the band has the new songs worked up but long before the miles wear them down. Wichita is also one of the few Plains stops between the Southeast swing and the Texas finish, so people from western Kansas and northern Oklahoma will probably make the drive.

A Cotillion crowd standing shoulder to shoulder for a band that earned its following one bar at a time — that's a Friday in February worth bundling up for.

The room counts here. The Cotillion is one of Wichita's longest-running concert halls, a ballroom holding around 2,000. That's big enough to feel like a genuine stop on a national tour and small enough that the back rail is still part of the show. For a band in 49 Winchester's position, with a major-label debut in hand and a growing headline draw, a ballroom like this is often the step just before the tour moves on to amphitheaters and the room stops feeling personal. People who catch them at this size tend to bring it up for years.

It's an easy night to plan around. West Kellogg is quick to reach from anywhere in town, the show is all ages, and an 8 p.m. start on a Friday leaves time for dinner first. The genre tags on the bill read country, rock and folk, and the band's records cover all three: straight country songs next to big Southern-rock choruses, with the occasional quiet song that turns a ballroom silent.

If you missed the presale, there's no need to panic yet, but February shows at this room have a habit of filling up. Get your ticket while there's still a choice of nights to arrange babysitters around, then spend the winter learning *Change of Plans*. By Feb. 26 you'll want to know the words.

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