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Mark Winters Takes “Rock With a Positive Vibe” Across the U.S. and Canada on Fall 2026 Good Vibes Highway Tour

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The Texas singer-songwriter and aerospace engineer will bring more than 30 performances to intimate venues, vineyards, breweries and listening rooms from Oklahoma to Atlantic Canada

Texas singer-songwriter Mark Winters is heading back to the open road for the Fall 2026 edition of his “Good Vibes Highway” Tour, an ambitious run featuring 34 currently dated performances across the United States and Canada, with two additional dates being finalized.

Beginning August 27 at Resonator in Norman, Oklahoma, the tour will travel through the South, Appalachia, the East Coast, Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec and New England before returning to Artmosphere in Lafayette, Louisiana, on November 8.

For Winters, a former aerospace engineer who became a full-time musician after learning guitar to serenade his wife, touring is equal parts flight path, field experiment and human connection.

“The road feels like the best kind of experiment,” says Winters. “You can plot the route, but every room changes the equation. A song leaves the stage, meets the people in front of you and comes back with new energy. That connection is what keeps me moving.”

The tour follows an expansive spring run through the Mountain West, Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and California. It also arrives during a busy year of new music that has included “Can I Rise” and “Into The Flow,” songs that continue Winters’ exploration of resilience, momentum and the forces that draw people together.

Winters calls his sound “rock with a positive vibe”: guitar-driven music shaped by the expressive influence of John Mayer, the positive and playfully curious spirit of Jason Mraz, and the simple, relatable storytelling of Tom Petty.

Poetry is equally central to his work. Winters credits his grandmother, Dean C. Winters — his lifelong poetry pal and muse — with teaching him how to observe the world closely and translate emotion into words. His aerospace engineering background supplies another creative lens, allowing him to turn ideas such as gravity, velocity, resonance and boundary layers into accessible stories about love, growth and belonging.

That combination of poetry and physics has become part of Winters’ unmistakable identity: a scientist with a poet’s heart, looking for the common frequency between a song and the people gathered to hear it.

The geography of the fall tour becomes part of that story. The route moves from the Ozarks and Appalachian ridges to vineyards in New Hampshire and New York, through the harbors of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and into music rooms across Quebec, Ontario, New England and the American South.

“I love the wide-open miles, the trails, the water and watching the landscape change,” Winters says. “But the best part is when strangers walk into a room and leave feeling a little more connected. For a few songs, we get to become our own small community.”

Whether performing in a cultural center, café, vineyard, brewery or neighborhood pub, Winters brings audiences an intimate, story-rich show built around guitar, curiosity and shared positive energy.

Fall 2026 Tour Dates

  • Aug. 27 — Resonator — Norman, Oklahoma
  • Aug. 28 — Jammin Java — Fayetteville, Arkansas
  • Aug. 29 — Revival — Benton, Arkansas
  • Aug. 30 — Lamplighter Lounge — Memphis, Tennessee
  • Sept. 1 — Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge — Madison, Tennessee
  • Sept. 2 — Havenhaus — Memphis, Tennessee
  • Sept. 3 — The Oyster Bar — Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Sept. 5 — The Appalachian Station at 19E — Roan Mountain, Tennessee
  • Sept. 6 — White Squirrel Brewery — Bowling Green, Kentucky
  • Sept. 11 — The Heist — Bowling Green, Virginia
  • Sept. 13 — The Palisades Restaurant — Eggleston, Virginia
  • Sept. 15 — Silvana — New York, New York
  • Sept. 17 — Epicure on King — Alexandria, Virginia
  • Sept. 18 — The Casual Pint of Dunn Loring — Fairfax, Virginia
  • Sept. 19 — The Mill at Rockdale — Aston, Pennsylvania
  • Sept. 20 — Averill House Vineyard — Brookline, New Hampshire
  • Sept. 25 — Barnone Brewery & Hop Farm — Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island
  • Sept. 26 — Belly Up BBQ and Grill — Truro, Nova Scotia
  • Sept. 27 — 2 Crows Brewing Co. — Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Sept. 28 — Breton Brewing — Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
  • Oct. 1 — Le Murdoch — Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • Oct. 2 — Microbrasserie Ateepic — Edmundston, New Brunswick
  • Oct. 3 — 13 Barrels Brewing — Bathurst, New Brunswick
  • Oct. 6 — Junction Underground — Toronto, Ontario
  • Oct. 7 — Avant Garde Bar — Ottawa, Ontario
  • Oct. 8 — Motel Chelsea — Chelsea, Quebec
  • Oct. 9 — Paddy Flaherty’s Irish Pub — Sarnia, Ontario
  • Oct. 11 — Three Brothers Wineries and Estates — Geneva, New York
  • Oct. 16 — The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts & Cultural Center — Middletown, Connecticut
  • Oct. 17 — Vienna Union Hall — Vienna, Maine
  • Oct. 18 — Charter Oak Brewing — Danbury, Connecticut
  • Oct. 21 — Saint Andrews Brewing — St. Andrews, New Brunswick
  • Oct. 24 — Bear Naked Growler — Montpelier, Vermont
  • Nov. 8 — Artmosphere — Lafayette, Louisiana

Additional Dates Being Finalized

  • Glasgow Square Theatre — New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
  • The Cantab Lounge — Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dates are subject to change. Performance times, ticket information and the latest tour updates will be available at www.MarkWintersMusic.com/shows/.

About Mark Winters

Mark Winters is a Texas-based singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and former aerospace engineer whose music brings science, emotion and optimism into the same orbit. Known for his signature “rock with a positive vibe,” Winters combines memorable guitar work, relatable lyrics and an adventurous spirit to create music for curious humans.

Inspired by John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Tom Petty, Winters writes songs about love, momentum, wonder and the energy people exchange with one another. His lifelong connection to poetry began with his grandmother, Dean C. Winters, his poetry pal and muse.

Winters’ live performances range from intimate acoustic listening rooms to full-band concerts, but the mission remains constant: use music to brighten the day, open a conversation and help people feel connected.

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Phoebe June Traces Love, Distance and Heartbreak on New EP ‘Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate’

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For Phoebe June, some stories are easier to tell through music.

Her new EP, ‘Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate’, is an intimate collection that traces the emotional journey of a relationship from the exhilaration of falling in love to distance, uncertainty, heartbreak and, ultimately, learning to let go.

Inspired by artists including Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers, Phoebe June combines diary-like lyricism with melancholic ballads, subtle uptempo moments and an understated, emotionally honest production style.

At the centre of the project is ‘Thursday’, a bittersweet track about loving someone from a distance and holding onto the hope that the connection might survive.

Written after Phoebe left a country that held deep personal meaning, and left someone she cared about behind, the song looks back at the relationship from its beginning. Even its title is personal: the two first met on a Thursday.

The song captures the complicated feeling of walking away from something meaningful without believing that it necessarily has to be over. It’s about distance, memory and the possibility of finding your way back to someone, while recognising that hope only works when it goes both ways.

Across six tracks, the EP develops that story in sequence.

‘Everything You Are’ opens the project with the warmth of new love, while ‘Dead Sea’ explores the security of finding someone who helps you stay afloat through difficult times. As the story progresses, ‘Thursday’ introduces separation before ‘Getaway Car’ moves into the aftermath; unanswered questions, lingering attachment and the realisation that someone can profoundly affect your life while still being unhealthy for you.

‘One Day’ leaves the door open to the possibility of a future reunion, balancing hope with the understanding that some relationships may only exist in memory.

The EP closes with ‘Ophelia’, its emotional breaking point. Inspired in part by Friedrich Heyser’s painting of the same name, the track confronts the pain of feeling manipulated and unappreciated after giving everything to someone else.

The result is a project that deliberately moves from light to dark. Phoebe June considered not only the narrative but the emotional progression when sequencing the EP, allowing the brightness of its opening to gradually give way to the heartbreak of its closing moments.

Even the title reflects that feeling.

‘Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate’ takes its name from a flower, with the image of a gate separating two people becoming a metaphor for a love that remains beautiful but just out of reach. To reach over it requires effort, just as maintaining a connection across distance, uncertainty and changing circumstances does.

Ultimately, Phoebe June isn’t interested in simply documenting her own heartbreak.

She wants listeners to recognise themselves in it.

‘Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate’ is a collection about love, nostalgia, hope and regret and about what remains when something beautiful ends up on the other side of the gate.

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