Zac Brown Band brings the Love & Fear Tour to MVP Arena on Friday, July 31 — one of 27 dates on a run that already has the band logging nights at Fenway Park and a three-show stand at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. The Albany stop arrives midway through the campaign, and for an act of this caliber, a mid-summer arena show at MVP Arena is exactly the kind of evening that tends to define the Capital Region‘s concert season.
The tour exists to support Love & Fear, the band’s eighth studio album, released in December 2025. It’s a record with range — country bedrock, guests that cross genre lines, and the context of a Sphere Las Vegas residency that made Zac Brown Band the first country act to perform at that venue. Whether you accept that framing as a genuine artistic statement or a well-timed marketing milestone probably depends on your relationship with the band’s recent output. What’s not in dispute is that the live show has never needed the studio work to justify it. They built their reputation on stages like this one long before the Sphere became a talking point.
Opening the Albany date is Old Crow Medicine Show — a pairing that rewards anyone with a serious interest in American roots music. Their catalog runs deep, their stage energy is a known quantity, and landing them as support on a Friday night in July is the kind of booking that makes arriving at doors worthwhile. Doors open at 5:30 PM.
MVP Arena, downtown Albany’s indoor arena, has hosted enough of these summer runs to know what a well-produced country-rock show requires. Zac Brown Band has played rooms like this long enough to fill them correctly. Albany audiences tend to show up for this band. This is exactly the kind of booking the venue was built for.
Tickets are priced from $44 to $194. Buy tickets here. The show begins at 7:00 PM.