Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives play the Wilson Center on Nov. 13

The country band's Friday-night stop is its first Wilmington show in our records, at the tail end of a year spent on the road.

Wilmington doesn't get Marty Stuart often. As far as our records go, it hasn't gotten him at all. That changes this Friday.

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives play the Wilson Center on Friday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. There's no earlier Wilmington show for the band in our records. Tickets are through the Wilson Center's own event page and AXS.

The band arrives near the end of a long year on the road. They opened 2026 with a nationwide tour that started February 9 in Chattanooga, according to Glide Magazine, and spent February on a co-headlining run with Molly Tuttle, per Country Standard Time. Summer brought a July 29 show at Boulder's Chautauqua Auditorium, and fall took them to Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre in September. This month runs Boston and the Manchester–Nashua area last weekend, Northern Virginia the night before Wilmington, and the Florida Keys on November 19.

The recent records give the band plenty to pull from. The newest is *Space Junk*, a double LP of original instrumentals by Stuart and the Superlatives that Country Standard Time describes as their first full-length of its kind, previously available only as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive before its wider release. Before that came *Altitude*, which American Songwriter reported as Stuart's first new album in six years.

An instrumental double album says a lot about how much this band trusts itself.

That instrumental record is a useful hint at what a Superlatives show is about. A band that makes a double album with no vocals is a band that wants you to listen to the playing, and that's the reason to go to a show like this: four musicians who have been at it together long enough to make a theater feel like a back porch.

The genre tag on this one reads folk, which undersells it a little; the band's 2026 billing has been country first, and the Molly Tuttle pairing tells you how wide the circle runs. Whatever you call it, a Friday at the Wilson Center with a 7:30 start is an easy night: dinner downtown, the show, and home at a reasonable hour.

The practical notes: Friday, November 13, 7:30 p.m., tickets through the Wilson Center or AXS. A first visit tends to draw both longtime fans who have been waiting and curious locals who have heard the name for years.

If you've been meaning to see Marty Stuart for a while, he's finally making it easy.

Sources: Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives (Wilson Center) (wilsoncentertickets.com); Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives at Wilson Center (AXS) (axs.com); Stuart, Tuttle tour together in '26 (Country Standard Time) (countrystandardtime.com); Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives (Glide Magazine) (wpcms.glidemagazine.com); Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives at Chautauqua Auditorium, July 29, 2026 (JamBase) (jambase.com); Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives to Play Lobero Theatre (Edhat) (edhat.com); Marty Stuart Announces First Album in Six Years, 'Altitude' (American Songwriter) (americansongwriter.com)