Virginia-grown Dave Matthews Band is returning to Hampton Roads this summer.
The Charlottesville jam band, also known as DMB, is scheduled to perform at the Virginia Beach amphitheater at 7:30 p.m. June 6. Tickets, starting at $69.50 for lawn seating, are on sale through Ticketmaster. The group last played in Hampton Roads in June 2024.
Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, the band has cultivated a loyal following since its first major-label album release, “Remember Two Things,” in 1993. This year, their best-selling album “Crash,” with hit single “Crash Into Me,” turns 30 years old.
The band has encouraged fans to record any of their shows and share it with others through tape-trading or posting online, since they’d play songs differently for each performance.
They would also switch the set list for every show, so there’s no guarantee DMB would play fan favorites including “Ants Marching,” “#41” or “Satellite.” Attendees should be prepared to hear anything from the group’s three-decade-long discography or surprise covers from other artists.
The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024, and their last seven studio albums all debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, dating back to 1998. The Grammy Award-winning group, which has sold 19.5 million tickets over the past 25 years, is the highest ranking American band, at No. 4, on Pollstar’s “25 Most Popular Touring Artists of the Millennium” list.
Their summer shows mark the third year of the band’s “On the Road to Zero Waste Tour,” an environmental effort to reduce fan-generated waste at Live Nation venues by making sure more than 90% is reused, recycled, composted or donated. The band also intends to plant more than 1 million trees this year to continue its ongoing support of The Nature Conservancy’s global reforestation program.