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Switchfoot Bring the Forever Now Tour to the Tabernacle on Friday Night

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8 hours ago

November 4, 2026

Switchfoot live on the Forever Now Tour. Photo by Switchfoot.

Switchfoot’s Forever Now Tour rolls into Atlanta on Friday, November 6, bringing the San Diego band’s first album in five years to the Tabernacle stage, with longtime friends Anberlin opening the night.

Atlanta gets one of the strongest rock bills of the fall on Friday night, when Switchfoot bring their Forever Now Tour to the Tabernacle with special guests Anberlin. The show starts at 8:00 PM at the downtown Atlanta landmark on Luckie Street, and it lands near the end of a 38 date North American run that kicked off in early September.

The tour carries the band’s fourteenth studio album, Forever Now, which arrived on June 26 of this year. It is Switchfoot’s first collection of new songs in five years, produced by longtime collaborator Mike Elizondo and recorded largely outside Nashville. The record is the most thematic of the band’s career, built around a single idea: the emotional arc of a person’s final day on Earth, and the questions that day would force to the surface. Singles like “Wake Up, Mr. Crow,” “Absolution” and “Beautiful Life” have given the tour a setlist that pairs the new material with the songs Atlanta has sung back at this band for two decades, from “Meant to Live” and “Dare You to Move” to “Stars.”

This has been a milestone year for the group in other ways as well. In July, Switchfoot stepped into the circle at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. Guitarist Boaz Roberts, who had toured with the band since 2021, officially joined the lineup this year, restoring the group to a five piece alongside Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, Chad Butler and Jerome Fontamillas.

Anberlin make the night a genuine double bill rather than a warm up. The Florida band opens the show five days before the release of their ninth studio album, Currency, so Atlanta hears the new songs early. Two bands with this much shared history, in a room like the Tabernacle, on a Friday night: this is the room and the pairing both catalogs deserve.

Manchester Orchestra Bring The Stuffing XVI Home to the Tabernacle on November 21

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2 hours ago

November 4, 2026

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Manchester Orchestra performing live on stage. Photo courtesy of Manchester Orchestra (official Instagram).

Manchester Orchestra’s annual hometown holiday show, The Stuffing, returns to the Tabernacle on Saturday, November 21 for its sixteenth edition, with longtime friend and collaborator Kevin Devine on the bill.

Atlanta has bigger concerts, but it may not have a more loved one. On Saturday, November 21, Manchester Orchestra bring The Stuffing back to the Tabernacle, the sixteenth edition of the hometown holiday show the band began in 2010 and has staged around Thanksgiving nearly every year since. The 6:30 PM start and the early holiday timing are part of the ritual: this is the show Atlanta plans its Thanksgiving week around.

The band, formed in Atlanta in 2004 and fronted by Andy Hull, has kept The Stuffing as a curated homecoming rather than a victory lap, and this year’s confirmed guest fits the tradition exactly. Kevin Devine, Hull’s Bad Books partner and one of the band’s oldest friends in music, is on the bill per the Ticketmaster listing. No fuller lineup has been published, and part of the show’s charm has always been who else walks out.

They arrive in a reflective year. In May, the band released Union Chapel (London, England), a 21 track live album on Loma Vista Recordings, with Hull and Robert McDowell reimagining the catalog from their sold out three night London residency. And 2026 marks twenty years since the debut album I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, which the band has honored with an anniversary edition and reimagined versions of “I Can Barely Breathe” and “Colly Strings.” Twenty years in, in their own city, in the room where this show has sold out before: The Stuffing XVI is less a concert date than a family obligation, in the best sense.