For the first time, three of contemporary Christian music’s biggest draws are sharing a single stage — and they’re rotating who closes the night. Chris Tomlin, TobyMac, and a reunited Third Day bring their co-headline tour to KeyBank Center in Buffalo on Friday, November 13, 2026, with a 7:00 PM start. The hook here isn’t just the marquee names; it’s the format. Each night a different artist takes the final set, so the show you see in Buffalo won’t be the same one that played the city before it.
About Chris Tomlin
There are worship leaders, and then there is Chris Tomlin — a Grammy winner whose songs have become congregational standards and whose tours have quietly turned him into one of his generation’s most improbable arena headliners. He’s not a pop star by the usual industry math, but his audience shows up in arena-sized numbers, and that conviction is the whole story. On this run he’s paired with TobyMac, the genre-bending mainstay of Christian hip-hop and pop, and Third Day, whose iconic Southern-rock sound made them one of the format’s defining bands before they stepped away — making this tour something of a reunion event in its own right. Between the three acts, the catalog spans decades, multiple Grammys, and well over 50 No. 1 singles. The tour is presented by Compassion International and supported by K-LOVE.
About KeyBank Center
KeyBank Center sits at One Seymour H. Knox III Plaza in the heart of downtown Buffalo, a 19,200-seat arena that handles everything from major touring productions to the full Buffalo Sabres season. It’s one of the larger rooms in Western New York, and a three-headliner production at this scale fits it exactly the way the building was meant to be used. Acoustics in a hockey arena are always a touch variable depending on where you land in the bowl, but the energy in this city around a big show is hard to beat — and a bill like this will pull from well outside the immediate metro.
Tickets
Tickets for Chris Tomlin, TobyMac, and Third Day at KeyBank Center went on sale May 20 and are available now through Ticketmaster. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Given that this is a 12-city run with all three artists on one stage, this is the kind of bill where the good seats move early — worth a look sooner rather than later.