{"id":775670,"date":"2026-05-05T20:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:27:23","slug":"dave-matthews-band-returns-to-virginia-beach-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775670\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Matthews Band returns to Virginia Beach in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia-grown Dave Matthews Band is returning to Hampton Roads this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/dave-matthews-band-virginia-beach-virginia-06-06-2026\/event\/01006381C6FBD5F6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">starting at $69.50 for lawn seating<\/a>, are on sale through Ticketmaster. The group last played in Hampton Roads in June 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, the band has cultivated a loyal following since its first major-label album release, \u201cRemember Two Things,\u201d in 1993. This year, their best-selling album \u201cCrash,\u201d with hit single \u201cCrash Into Me,\u201d turns 30 years old.\n<\/p>\n<p>The band has encouraged fans to record any of their shows and share it with others through tape-trading or posting online, since they\u2019d play songs differently for each performance.<\/p>\n<p>They would also switch the set list for every show, so there\u2019s no guarantee DMB would play fan favorites including \u201cAnts Marching,\u201d \u201c#41\u201d or \u201cSatellite.\u201d Attendees should be prepared to hear anything from the group\u2019s three-decade-long discography or surprise covers from other artists.<\/p>\n<p>The band was inducted into the Rock &amp; 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\u2019s \u201c25 Most Popular Touring Artists of the Millennium\u201d list.<\/p>\n<p>Their summer shows mark the third year of the band\u2019s \u201cOn the Road to Zero Waste Tour,\u201d 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\u2019s global reforestation program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia-grown Dave Matthews Band is returning to Hampton Roads this summer. The Charlottesville jam band, also known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,1370,975,5424,301545,2824,1072,67,132,68,906,81012],"class_list":{"0":"post-775670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-music-and-concerts","12":"tag-oceanfront","13":"tag-outdoors","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-virginia","19":"tag-virginia-beach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116523856537233039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}