Wild Pink is coming to The Southern Café & Music Hall on May 22

Wild Pink brings a Charlottesville date to The Southern Café & Music Hall on May 22, 2026. Truth Club opens the night. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET.

Wild Pink pulls roughly 184K monthly listeners on Spotify, with 24K fans tracking the act on Bandsintown.

The act

Formed in 2015, out of New York, NY, Wild Pink has been touring behind a strengthening catalog into a live act with national reach.

Wild Pink is the New York indie-rock project of John Ross, formed in 2015 and built around a heartland-rock sensibility that critics have compared to Tom Petty by way of Sufjan Stevens. Their 2022 album ILYSM was written and recorded during Ross's cancer treatment and remission. Fifth album Dulling the Horns followed in 2024.

The venue

The Southern Café & Music Hall sits at 103 South 1st Street, a 300-capacity intimate listening room operated by Starr Hill Presents under booker Danny Shea.

Southern programs eclectically across rising indie, folk, and singer-songwriters. The room runs 300 general-admission, with sightlines from front-of-house to the back of the floor.

The night

Doors 7:00 PM. Set 8:00 PM. All ages. Ticket prices are set on the on-sale.

Truth Club opens at doors with a 30-minute set.

Why now

Wild Pink pulls a measurable 98/100 share of Charlottesville-metro listeners on Spotify, including a non-trivial DC and Richmond overlap that often crosses for shows at this size.

How to get tickets

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET via the venue.

The Southern Café & Music Hall is at 103 South 1st Street, Charlottesville, VA.