The Palace Theatre has been closing out great tours for longer than most touring acts have been alive. On Wednesday, October 7, it does so again: Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band bring their 10-date fall 2026 Northeast run to a close on Clinton Avenue, making Albany the final destination on a sweep through the region that began September 24 in Easton, Pennsylvania. He hasn’t played Albany in 12 years. The Capital Region hasn’t seen him in eight. The Palace, at 2,844 seats, is about as intimate a room as someone of this stature still plays.
About Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band
At 86 — a birthday Starr marked on July 7th, the same day the fall dates were announced — he remains a working musician in a meaningful sense of the phrase. The All Starr Band concept has always operated on a rotating-marquee logic: gather musicians who’ve had careers worthy of their own headlining slots and put them all on one stage. The 2026 lineup holds to that tradition. Steve Lukather and Warren Ham bring their Toto credentials; Colin Hay carries the Men at Work songbook; Hamish Stuart arrives from the Average White Band; Gregg Bissonette from years with David Lee Roth; keyboardist Buck Johnson completes the group with his Aerosmith background. The result is less a concert by a legacy artist than a rotating revue of vintage rock with Ringo at the center — which, when you think about it, is exactly what he has always done best.
The fall run supports Long Long Road, Starr’s 22nd solo album and his second collaboration with producer T Bone Burnett, released in April 2026. The record leans into Americana and country textures — a stylistic shift that drew contributions from Sheryl Crow, Sarah Jarosz, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, and St. Vincent. Whether that material finds its footing in the All Starr Band’s communal, rock-forward live format is the honest question worth showing up to answer.
The tour’s penultimate stop carries its own historical weight: Forest Hills Stadium on October 1st marks Ringo’s first appearance at the Queens venue since The Beatles performed there in August 1964 — the group’s inaugural stadium concerts. Albany gets closing night.
About the Venue
The Palace Theatre at 19 Clinton Avenue is Albany’s flagship indoor concert hall — 2,844 seats, reliable sightlines, and a room that has hosted artists across every genre and every era. For a show of this profile, it is precisely the right size: large enough to matter, intimate enough that the distance between the drum kit and the last row never quite feels like a gulf. The Albany / Capital District doesn’t get many nights like this one.
Tickets
General public tickets go on sale Friday, July 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM through the Palace Theatre website at palacealbany.org. Showtime is 7:30 PM.
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