Blues Traveler Expands 2026 Tour

Published by New Jersey Stage

originally published: 02/25/2026

(L-R) Tad Kinchla, Ben Wilson, John Popper, Chan Kinchla, Brendan Hill. Photo by Graham Fielder

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Multi-platinum rock band Blues Traveler are expanding their 2026 touring slate with a new run of headline dates, adding to a banner year that features festival appearances like Bonnaroo and a continuation of their iconic annual Fourth of July show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — where this year they'll be joined by special guests Better Than Ezra and The Record Company. Collectively, these performances reaffirm the band's enduring dominance as a formidable force on the live music circuit. The tour comes to Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and New York City in August.

The band's 2026 momentum follows a milestone year in 2025, when Blues Traveler celebrated 30 years since the release of their GRAMMY® Award-winning breakthrough hit "Run-Around." The anniversary was marked with widespread media attention, including a feature interview in Rolling Stone with frontman John Popper.

It was nearly 4 decades ago that the four original members of Blues Traveler (John Popper, Chandler Kinchla, Brendan Hill, and the late Bobby Sheehan) gathered to jam in a basement in Princeton, New Jersey. From these high school sessions emerged a band that would go on to release a total of 14 studio albums, four of which have gone gold, three platinum, and one six-times platinum, selling more than 10 million combined units worldwide.

Over an illustrious career, Blues Traveler has played more than 2,000 live shows in front of over 30 million people and, with "Run-Around," achieved the longest-charting radio single in Billboard history — earning the band a GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. In 2021, Blues Traveler released the GRAMMY®-nominated Traveler's Blues (Round Hill Records), a collection of reimagined and recharged classics from the American blues songbook and the group's first official blues album. The second release in this series, 2023's Traveler's Soul, takes a similar approach, consisting of cover songs from a specific genre — this time classic R&B and soul.

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Ticket are available for purchase online starting Friday, February 27 at 10:00am.

In addition to these newly announced dates, Blues Traveler will hit the road with Gin Blossoms for a 35-date co-headlining tour set to kick off on Monday, July 6 at the Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park with special guests Spin Doctors. The bands behind signature hits like "Run-Around" and "Hey Jealousy" will light up legendary stages from the Hollywood Bowl to SummerStage in Central Park, culminating on Saturday, September 19, bringing their high-energy performances coast-to-coast.

Speaking on the co-headlining run with Gin Blossoms, frontman John Popper shares, "It's rare when a package feels so much like home that it carries a spirit which becomes tangible to an audience. That was the case — by all accounts — regarding our summer tour last year with Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms. We grew up with Spin Doctors as pups in the same litter... ours is a shared origin story. But working with Gin Blossoms was a first. Their music was everywhere when we were coming up, and yet only last summer did we have the opportunity to learn how fun it is playing with them — and to discover how much energy our three bands put out in combination. So, we've decided to take this show everywhere we missed last year. We're excited to bring it to you."