Kings of Leon will play the Maine Savings Amphitheater in Bangor on Saturday, May 29, 2027. It will be the band’s first Maine show in 22 years. The stop belongs to a 2027 North American tour that starts May 8 and wraps up Oct. 15.
The band’s only earlier Maine show took place on Oct. 1, 2005, at the State Theater in Portland, according to WCYY. The Bangor date lands on Memorial Day weekend. Band of Horses will open.
The tour supports O My Beloved, the band’s 10th studio album. It came out Friday, Nov. 6, on Love Tap Records and has 13 tracks. The band produced the full record by itself for the first time, according to TicketNews.
The tour has 30 dates across the United States and Canada. It kicks off at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, and finishes at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The first leg runs 13 shows through June 6, and Band of Horses plays support. After a break, the band returns Sept. 11 in West Valley City, Utah, for a second leg. Find tour dates on the band’s official website.
Dexter and The Moonrocks open the September dates through Sept. 28. Band of Horses come back for five shows from Sept. 30 through Oct. 8. Dexter and The Moonrocks then join the last three shows.
Other spring stops include Noblesville, Indiana, on May 15, Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 18, and Clarkston, Michigan, on May 23. Toronto gets the band on June 2. Vancouver follows on Sept. 14 at Rogers Arena.
The band started in 1999 in Nashville. Brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill make up the group with their cousin Matthew Followill. They have sold more than 20 million albums and nearly 40 million singles worldwide, per Billboard. GRAMMY Awards sit on their shelf, and they have earned eight nominations.
The 2008 album Only by the Night made the band stars. Hits include “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire.” They have also headlined Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Glastonbury, according to Daily Hive.
Kings of Leon will also play Morgan Wallen’s Sand In My Boots Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on May 21-23.
Tickets for the Bangor show go on sale Friday, Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. on the Maine Savings Amphitheater website. Presales for other tour dates begin Monday, Nov. 9, at 9 a.m. local time, followed by an artist presale Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. local time.
