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

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2 hours ago

November 4, 2026

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.

Movements Bring the Happier Now Tour to the Tabernacle on Saturday

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8 hours ago

November 4, 2026

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Movements live on the Happier Now Tour. Photo by Movements.

Movements headline the Tabernacle on Saturday, November 7, touring behind their fourth album Happier Now, with Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS filling out a four band post-hardcore bill.

The Tabernacle hosts the heaviest emotional bill of the weekend on Saturday, November 7, when Movements bring the Happier Now USA Tour to Atlanta. Doors lead into a 7:30 PM show with a stacked support lineup: Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS, four bands that between them map most of where guitar music with feelings has gone in the last decade.

Movements arrive behind a brand new record. Happier Now, the Southern California band’s fourth full length, was released on September 4 through Fearless Records, their label home since the start. The band recorded it again with Grammy winning producer Will Yip, and the singles that led it in, “Dissolve Me,” “Back in My Ways” and “Separate,” show a group tightening the sound that made Feel Something a scene landmark in 2017: Patrick Miranda’s plainspoken vocals over music that swings between quiet confession and full catharsis. Reviews of the album have called it the band’s strongest work since their debut, and the fall tour is the first full United States headline run behind it.

That matters for Atlanta, because Movements shows are built on the exchange between Miranda and the room. Songs like “Daylily,” “Colorblind” and “Deadly Dull” were written out of real grief and anxiety, and a Tabernacle crowd singing them back in a former church is about as fitting a setting as this music gets. Balance and Composure, back on the road and near the top of their own second act, would justify the ticket on their own. With Midrift and NIIS opening, Saturday is a full evening of the genre’s present and future, and it starts early.