Dave Matthews Band: 2025 Summer Tour

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Dave Matthews Band unveiled dates for its 2025 Summer Tour, which started in New Orleans on April 27 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and comes to a close with DMB’s traditional Labor Day weekend residency in George, Washington, and The Gorge Amphitheatre from August 29 to August 31.

General sale for Dave Matthews Band tickets is underway and the tour will see the group headlining a number of outdoor festivals in North America in the Live Nation produced endeavor.

The Dave Matthews Band recently played and headlined two nights (June 7-8) at the Best of Blues & Rock Festival at Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil alongside other notable acts like Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, and Richard Ashcroft.

After the conclusion of the 2025 DMB Tour, founders Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will be at the Farm Aid 40 Music Festival at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on September 20 alongside musical legends like Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp.

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds have already announced that they will be hosting a destination festival next year called Dave and Tim Riviera Maya at Moon Palace in Riviera Maya, (Cancun) Mexico next year from January 21 to January 24, 2026. The festival will include a headlining concert from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats as well as appearances from Trampled by Turtles, Joy Oladokun, and Say She She.

Dave Matthews Band 2025 Summer Tour Dates

Coming up in June on tour, where Dave Matthews Band tickets are a hot commodity, are dates in Wantagh, New York (June 11), Cincinnati, Ohio (June 13), Maryland Heights, Missouri (June 14), and two nights at Credit One Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina (June 20-21) to usher out spring and welcome in summer.

The Dave Matthews Band then plays Birmingham, Alabama (June 24), Alpharetta, Georgia (June 25), and two nights in Chicago (June 27-38). After the Windy City, it’s up to the Great White North and Canada for a show in Toronto, Ontario (July 8) on the Budweiser Stage.

The tour stays in the Midwest and heads to Clarkston, Michigan, and the Pine Knob Music Center (July 9) followed by two nights at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana (July 11-12) where DMB has played over 50 shows.

Two-night stands at the brand new Allianz Amphitheater in Richmond, Virginia (July 15-16), in Saratoga Springs, New York (July 18-19), Gilford, New Hampshire (July 22-23), and Camden, New Jersey (July 25-26) follow on the Dave Matthews Band Tour.

In August, the Dave Matthews Band Summer Tour 2025 heads west to do two concerts in Big Sky, Montana (August 1-2; Dave Matthews solo), playing the historic Kia Forum in Los Angeles (Inglewood) for the first time since 1988 (August 22), and then heading to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on the next night (August 23).

Dave Matthews Band plays Stateline, Nevada, and Lake Tahoe (August 26) before wrapping up the tour with its traditional Labor Day weekend residency in George, Washington at The Gorge Amphitheatre (August 29-31) where Dave Matthews Band Tickets could be hard to find.

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How Long Are Dave Matthews Band Concerts?

Based on previous Dave Matthews Band concert information from the Internet, shows typically last between 2 hours and 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on backup acts and DMB extended improvisational segments. There will be no backup acts on the tour except for the last three shows on the group’s traditional Labor Day weekend residency.

Who Will be Labor Day Weekend Residency Backup Acts?

For its annual Labor Day weekend residency at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington the Dave Matthews Band will welcome six backup acts, two for each of the three-night stand in the Evergreen State.

On Friday, August 29,Southern Avenue and Kaleo will precede the Dave Matthews Band. On Saturday, August 30, it will be Oskar & Julia and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones while on Sunday, August 31—the last show of the Dave Matthews Band 2025 Summer Tour—it will be Louis Cato and Goose backing up DMB in George.

Doors will open at 3:30 pm PDT with the music scheduled to start around 5 pm for all three shows.

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Dave Matthews Band Setlist

The Dave Matthews Band setlist changes depending on the concert and venue dates. The following Dave Matthews band setlist from setlist.fm from the opening night of the Summer Tour 2025 at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 27, 2025. DMB played 17 songs and all the Dave Matthews band hits. Here’s that setlist:

1. Ants Marching

2. So Much to Say

3. Anyone Seen the Bridge

4. Word Up! (Cameo cover)

5. Alligator Pie (Cockadile)

6. Madman’s Eyes

7. Warehouse

8. Let’s Dance (David Bowie cover)

9. You Never Know

10. When the World Ends

11. Dancing Nancies

12. Pantala Naga Pampa

13. Rapunzel

14. Don’t Drink the Water

15. Jimi Thing

16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin (Sly & the Family Stone cover)

17. Grey Street

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Dave Matthews Band Members

Here is the current lineup of Dave Matthews Band members:

• Dave Matthews (age 58, lead vocals, guitar)

• Carter Beauford (age 66, drummer, percussion)

• Stefan Lessard (age 51, bass guitar)

• Tim Reynolds (age 67, lead guitar)

• Rashawn Ross (age 46, trumpet, percussion, backing vocals)

• Jeff Coffin (age 59, saxophone, winds)

• Buddy Strong (age 43, keyboards, backing vocals)

Where Can I Find Dave Matthews Band Merch?

You can find Dave Matthews Band merch online at the official Dave Matthews Band website where you can shop for music, apparel, and accessories at the Dave Matthews Band Official Store. Here are some of the items you can find there:

Dave Matthews Tour Dates and Location

Kindly note that this is a partial list of locations and dates. Please visit Dave Matthews Band Tickets page for the complete list of tour dates.

About Dave Matthews Band

The Dave Matthews Band had its unique start in 1990 at a place called Miller’s Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia when bartender Dave Matthews became close with a lawyer named Ross Hoffman who suggested Matthews approach local drummer Carter Beauford to do a demo.

Matthews, Beauford, and Stefan Lessard formed the band in 1991 with LeRoi Moore (saxophone), Boyd Tinsley (violin, backing vocals), and Peter Greisar (keyboards). DMB did one solo live album as an independent and then signed with RCA Records.

The Dave Matthews Band had sold over 25 million concert tickets as of 2018 as well as a combined total of 38 million CDs and DVDs. The group has always been headed by frontman and namesake, Dave Matthews, a native of South Africa.

The group was inducted into the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 by Julia Roberts and the band performed a medley of their hits and the Dave Matthews Band closed with a stirring cover rendition of Talking Heads “Burning Down the House.”

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Dave Matthews Band Hits

The Dave Matthews Band has released 10 studio albums with the group’s debut Under the Table and Dreaming (1994) critically acclaimed with the classic singles ”What Would You Say” and “Ants Marching,” which hit No. 18 on the Billboard Alternative chart. DMB has been opening shows with “Ants Marching.”

Crash followed in 1996 with the popular single ”Crash Into Me.” Before These Crowded Streets (1998) was also popular and the record Stand Up (2005) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts with singles like "American Baby", "Dreamgirl", and "Everybody Wake Up".[

The platinum and Grammy Awards-nominated album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009) also hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “Funny the Way It Is,” “Why I Am,” and “You and Me” the three singles released from the album.

The album Everyday (2010) supplied singles "I Did It", "Everyday", and "The Space Between" with all three charting on Billboard, including the Hot 100. The last studio album from the Dave Matthews Band was Walk Around the Moon (2023).

Besides delivering the expected Dave Matthews Band hits, the group has also been treating their fans to several wonderful cover versions including versions of Cameo’s “Word Up!,” David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” and Sly & the Family Stone’s “Thank You.”

Dave Matthews Chicago River Incident

When Dave Matthews Band plays its two nights in Chicago (June 27-28), the boys will certainly be reminded of that crappy Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident that happened back on August 8, 2004.

A tour bus from the band accidentally dumped some 800 pounds of septic waste through the Kinzie Street Bridge and onto an unsuspecting open-top sightseeing boat doing a tour on the Chicago River. The band was not on the bus at the time of the incident.

The driver of the bus, Stefan Wohl, was but initially denied that he ejected the waste into the river in Poopgate. But he was found to be the only one onboard the bus when the Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident happened and was promptly fired by the band.

And yes, they even have a Wikipedia page for this cultural quirk from the day it rained human feces and pee in the Windy City. DMB paid a $200,000 fine and donated an additional $100,000 to two groups that help protect the historic Chicago River.

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