There is a line in “Terrible Sunrise,” one of Bobby Bare Jr.’s songs, that sticks the way good country writing sticks: specific enough to feel like somebody’s life, open enough to feel like yours. He comes by that quality honestly. His father, Bobby Bare Sr., is a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, and junior grew up in a Nashville where Johnny Cash, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Shel Silverstein were not exactly strangers. At age eight, he received a Grammy nomination for a duet with his father called “Daddy What If,” a Shel Silverstein composition, which tells you something about both the world he came from and the one he would spend his career quietly complicating.
About the Show
Bare brings his fall 2026 solo tour to The Falcon in Marlboro on Thursday, October 8, a stop that falls between a Providence show on the seventh and a Brooklyn date on the ninth, the northeast leg of a national tour. He established himself in the late 1990s and early 2000s with his band Bare Jr. and continued through solo work that blends alt-country, Americana, roots rock, and indie rock in proportions that shift from record to record. Since 2016, he has toured as a guitarist and backing vocalist for Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard’s prolific project, and has said the experience taught him “the discipline of having a good, consistent show,” the kind of discipline that comes from playing sets drawn from approximately 60 songs without slowing down. He returned to solo performing in 2023 after a six-year absence and has expressed interest in committing more fully to country, the genre he has orbited throughout his career. He is currently co-writing and producing material with Frank Black of the Pixies. His own website offers custom songwriting commissions alongside a note that reads: “I love writing songs—I love finding new reasons to write songs.” That, more than a resume, is probably the point. No opening act is listed.
Venue & Logistics
The Falcon holds 150 people on Route 9W in Marlboro, in the Hudson Valley. For a songwriter who has spent decades moving across genres that all require some degree of actual listening, a room that size is not a limitation. It is the right room. Dinner is served from 5:30 to 9 p.m.; music begins at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets
This is a donation-driven show: 100% of proceeds go directly to Bobby Bare Jr. No ticket price was available from sources at the time of publication. Buy tickets