After a notable hiatus, it seems My Morning Jacket’s visits to Milwaukee — and their touring habits at large — are getting more frequent.
The much-loved Louisville-born rock group played the Riverside Theater in June of 2023 and then April of 2025, with the first of those shows ending an eight-year gap between concerts in Brew City. They’ll stick with that roughly two-year cadence when they perform at the BMO Pavilion next July 1 for Summerfest 2027. That brings the stage’s lineup to three:
- June 26 — Lake Street Dive
- July 1 — My Morning Jacket
- July 2 — Foreigner
My Morning Jacket’s last show in Milwaukee was in support of 2025 album is, and since then they released a collection of peaceful protest songs (some covers and some originals) titled Peacelands. Jim James also released solo record Wowed Out earlier this year.
As with all BMO Pavilion dates during Summerfest, the My Morning Jacket concert will have reserved seats available for purchase starting at 10 a.m. this Friday, Oct. 23. You can get those online via Ticketmaster or at the Summerfest box offices. Any seats that don’t get snapped up will be available on a first-come, first-served basis the day of the show.
Artist bio
For more than 25 years, My Morning Jacket have achieved an incredibly rare feat in the world of rock ‘n’ roll, upholding a long-established cultural legacy while sustaining all the curiosity and creative hunger of their very earliest days.
Their 10th studio album, is, arrived via ATO Records last March and represented a monumental step for the Louisville-bred five-piece, expanding the limits of their sound and elevating their artistry to new heights. The result is perhaps the most masterfully realized work yet from a band fully committed to their belief in music as a conduit for revelation of all kinds.
“I like how the word ‘is’ indicates a sense of presence in the now — there’s no logic or rationale behind this record; it just is,” frontman Jim James said. “All these songs came into existence out of an attempt to connect with something beyond the human experiment, which for me is the whole purpose of music — that connection with something larger than us, yet something we are all equally a part of.”
The album arrived as the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of 2005’s landmark Z, a lavishly acclaimed collection named by Rolling Stone among “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” James points to the “undeniable force of loving” as the most essential factor in the band’s longevity and unending enchantment with the process of musical creation.
