Joe Bonamassa returns to the Palace Theatre — the same 2,844-seat Clinton Avenue room where his Blues Deluxe Tour stopped in August 2024 — for a Saturday night show on February 27, 2027. The Albany date arrives as day two of a New York swing that opens the previous evening at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, part of a 14-date theater circuit running from Milwaukee in early February through the Southeast into March. For a guitarist who regularly headlines Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, the Palace at 2,844 seats is on the intimate end of his usual footprint — and the better for it.
About Joe Bonamassa
Bonamassa grew up in New Hartford, New York — no geography lesson required for an upstate audience — and has spent the decades since building what Guitar World calls the career of “arguably the world’s biggest blues guitarist.” He holds more #1 albums on the Billboard Blues Chart than any other artist in the chart’s history, a Grammy-nominated catalog that runs from acoustic country-blues reverence to full-orchestra spectacle, built show by show across 25 years of relentless touring.
He was opening for B.B. King as a preteen. King, having watched the set, said: “Bonamassa’s just good. One of a kind. The kind that will be a legend before he’s 25.” His first studio album, A New Day Yesterday (2000), was produced by Tom Dowd — the recording engineer behind some of the most important blues and rock albums in American history. The foundational influences were British (Cream, Led Zeppelin) before he made a deliberate immersion into the American blues lineage: T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and a pilgrimage to Rosedale, Mississippi to understand the genre on its own terms.
His most recent release, The Spirit of Rory — Live From Cork (2026), documents three sold-out Cork shows honoring Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher. Blues Rock Review rated it 8/10, noting Bonamassa approached the Gallagher catalog “with humility and reverence” rather than imitation. Off stage, he runs Journeyman Records (his own label, launched 2023), fronts the supergroup Black Country Communion alongside Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham, and his Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation has raised over $2 million for music education programs, reaching approximately 70,000 children.
Venue: Palace Theatre Albany
The Palace Theatre at 19 Clinton Avenue holds 2,844 seats — intimate by Bonamassa’s usual standards. Reviewers covering his 2024 Blues Deluxe Tour date there noted exceptional acoustics and optimal sightlines. A guitarist who builds sets on dynamics and tone rather than sheer volume is well-served by a room that actually lets you hear the difference. More information at palacealbany.org.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets go on sale to the general public on July 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM. A fan presale opens July 7; venue and member presales begin July 8. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster. Palace Theatre Albany is located at 19 Clinton Avenue, Albany, NY 12207. For more shows in the region, see our Albany / Capital District concert calendar.