O.A.R. at SPAC | September 19, 2026

Thirty years is a long time to keep a band together, and O.A.R. — Of A Revolution — has done it with something rarer than longevity: a live audience that still fills amphitheaters. The Three Decades Tour arrives at SPAC in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, September 19, and the billing makes a reasonable case that this one deserves your calendar.

About O.A.R.

Formed in Rockville, Maryland in 1996, O.A.R. built their reputation the way durable acts do — relentless touring, a fanbase that came for the jams and stayed for the songs, and enough recorded substance to anchor a setlist across decades. Marc Roberge (lead vocals, guitar), Jerry DePizzo (saxophone, guitar), Benj Gershman (bass), Chris Culos (drums), and Richard On (guitar) developed a sound that straddled jam-band looseness and pop-rock discipline with the kind of craft that doesn’t erode easily. Albums like Stories of a Stranger, 34th & 8th, and Risen gave the catalog the weight to justify a milestone tour framed around their 1996 founding. Whether you read the Three Decades Tour as a victory lap or a genuine retrospective probably depends on how many of those years you were paying attention.

The Venue & Lineup

SPAC holds 25,000 — approximately 5,200 under the pavilion, the rest on the lawn — and on a September night in Upstate New York, that lawn carries a different charge than it does in July. End-of-summer audiences at SPAC tend to settle in with intention. O.A.R. is a fitting act for that particular mood.

The show is being presented as 99.5 The River’s End of Summer Night Out, with Live Nation at the helm. Gavin DeGraw and KT Tunstall open — support with enough draw of its own to make the early arrival worthwhile. Showtime is 6:30 PM.

Tickets

Tickets are on sale now for O.A.R.’s September 19 show at SPAC. Buy tickets here.