DARIUS RUCKER
SONGS OF SUMMER TOUR 2026
with special guests George Birge & Austin Williams
Saturday, June 6
Presented by The Bowery Presents
Doors: 5:30 pm / Performance Time: 7:00pm
Tickets on sale Friday, February 27 at 10am
Rucker first achieved multi-Platinum status in the music industry as lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the GRAMMY Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish, who have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide including their Double Diamond-certified (22xPlatinum) debut Cracked Rear View, which remains among the top 10 best-selling studio albums of all time. Since releasing his first Country album in 2008, Rucker has earned a whole new legion of fans with four No. 1 albums on theBillboardCountry chart plus 10 No. 1 singles at Country radio and 11 Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum certified hits. Rucker was inducted as a GrandOle Opry member in 2012 and he won his third career GRAMMY Award in 2014 for Best SoloCountry Performance with his Diamond-certified (11x Platinum) version of “Wagon Wheel,”one of the top five best-selling Country songs of all time. His latest albumCarolyn’s Boy(featuring recent single “Never Been Over” with Jennifer Nettles) is available everywhere now as is his New York Times bestselling memoir “Life’s Too Short,” released via Dey Street in 2024.
As a lifelong philanthropist, Rucker co-chaired the capital campaign that generated $150 million to help build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital in his hometown of Charleston,S.C. and has raised over $4.3 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through his annual Darius & Friends benefit concert and golf tournament. In addition, Rucker has advocated for over 200 charitable causes supporting public education and junior golf programs in SouthCarolina through the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation and serves as a National Chair for theNational Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tenn. Rucker is also an avid sports fan, with hisDarius Rucker Collection by Fanatics line of NFL, MLB, NHL and NCAA apparel available via Fanatics.com, and he is part of the Music City Baseball investment group working to bring an MLB team to Tennessee in addition to serving as a partner at the MGC Sports & Entertainment agency.
For more information, visit www.dariusrucker.com and follow on social media @DariusRucker.