Sam Barber maps expansive 2026 American Route Tour, including D.C. stop
- carsydog0
- Oct 25, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: 1 day ago
Sam Barber’s American Route Tour arrives at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 2026, bringing one of country and Americana’s fastest-scaling success stories into one of the city’s largest rooms.
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The stop lands Barber squarely in the middle of a tour designed to match the size of his growing audience—no longer club-level, not quite stadium-ready, but rapidly filling theaters across the country.
Barber began posting songs online in 2021 while still enrolled in technical college, steadily building an audience through original material and stripped-down covers that circulated far beyond his Missouri roots. Those early releases laid the groundwork for “Straight and Narrow,” which broke through on streaming platforms and radio, earning multi-platinum certification and establishing Barber as more than a viral curiosity.
From there, the pace accelerated: sold-out headlining dates, festival bookings, and a debut album, Restless Mind, that cracked the Billboard 200.
The American Route Tour reflects that trajectory. Announced after an extended run of North American dates—many of them sold out—the 2026 routing stretches from Mississippi to California and back through the Southeast and Midwest, with Barber headlining larger venues than ever before.
The D.C. date will feature support from Waylon Wyatt and Wild Horses, both of whom align with Barber’s stripped-down, songwriter-first sensibility. See below for a full list of tour dates and openers: The American Route Tour 2026
January 30, 2026 @ The Lyric Oxford in Oxford, MS *
January 31, 2026 @ The Lyric Oxford in Oxford, MS *
February 5, 2026 @ Salem Civic Center in Salem, VA $ #
February 6, 2026 @ The Anthem in Washington, DC $ #
February 7, 2026 @ Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC $ #
March 12, 2026 @ The Sylvee in Madison, WI &
March 13, 2026 @ The Sylvee in Madison, WI &
March 14, 2026 @ Vibrant Music Hall in Waukee, IA &
March 19, 2026 @ Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, IN &
March 20, 2026 @ GLC Live at 20 Monroe in Grand Rapids, MI &
April 24, 2026 @ Stagecoach in Indio, CA ^
May 7, 2026 @ The Astro Amphitheater in Omaha, NE + *
May 8, 2026 @ Wave Outdoors in Wichita, KS + *
May 9, 2026 @ First Security Amphitheater in Little Rock, AR + *
May 14, 2026 @ The Dome in Virginia Beach, VA + *
May 15, 2026 @ Firefly Distillery in North Charleston, SC + *
May 16, 2026 @ The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, AL + *
May 21, 2026 @ The BayCare Sound in Clearwater, FL + *
May 22, 2026 @ Pompano Beach Amphitheater in Pompano Beach, FL + *
May 23, 2026 @ The St. Augustine Amphitheatre in St. Augustine, FL + *
June 4, 2026 @ Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC $ #
June 5, 2026 @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre in Charlotte, NC $ #
June 6, 2026 @ Railbird Festival in Lexington, KY ^
North America Tour 2025–2026
October 31, 2025 @ Asheville Yards in Asheville, NC
November 1, 2025 @ The Ritz in Raleigh, NC
November 5, 2025 @ Webster Hall in New York, NY
November 6, 2025 @ Webster Hall in New York, NY
November 7, 2025 @ Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia, PA
November 8, 2025 @ Roadrunner in Boston, MA
November 19, 2025 @ The Eastern in Atlanta, GA
November 20, 2025 @ The Eastern in Atlanta, GA
November 21, 2025 @ St. Pete Country Fest in St. Petersburg, FL ^
November 22, 2025 @ The Plaza Live in Orlando, FL
December 3, 2025 @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, NV
December 5, 2025 @ Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth, TX
January 8–11, 2026 @ Noah Kahan’s Out of the Blue in Riviera Cancún, Mexico ^
Openers
* = Bebe Stockwell
$ = Waylon Wyatt
# = WILD HORSES
& = Clover County
+ = Michael Marcagi
^ = Festival Appearance
