On Saturday, January 25th, 2025 (fresh off three days of recording new material), Michael Perry and the Long Beds return to the JAMF Theater at the Pablo Center.

In a time when everything is screen-mediated or designed to harangue or influence, an evening with Mike and the Long Beds is a welcome reprieve. The band is crackerjack (does anybody still say “crackerjack”?!?!), ripping it up on the solos and bridges when ripping it up is called for, and laying in just the quiet note or accent when that better suits the mood. Sometimes they whoop it up, sometimes they soup it up, and sometimes they go soft and slow, drawing the entire room into the delicate cocoon of a shared human moment. Mike knows some chords and mainly just strums. But he does write the songs (with the exception of the band’s only cover tune, “Waymore’s Blues”) and sing’em, so that’s why he stands there in the middle. As with Mike’s written work (a back catalog of 20-plus books) a Long Beds show blends powerful poetics, homespun humor, and a feeling like you’re rolling country roads in jeans and a pickup truck, giggling one minute, getting misty the next, now and then whooping out the window, and above all feeling like you’re riding with friends who mean it.

Tickets range between $33.14 – $39.77.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Doors open: 6:30 PM
Show starts: 7:30 PM

All ages welcome to attend.

Mike will meet and greet fans, and sign merchandise after the show.

JAMF Theater at Pablo Center
128 Graham Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701