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Collective Soul Announces 2026 Tour Dates
Collective Soul has announced their headlining tour for 2026, commencing on January 29 in Anaheim and featuring performances in cities such as Niagara Falls and Orlando, concluding in Menahga, MN on July 25. The band will also return to The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas for a special three-night engagement during Big Game Weekend, featuring Edwin McCain as a guest artist. Concert dates for this event are set for February 4, 6, and 7, 2026. Fans can expect to hear iconic tracks including "December," "The World I Know," and the chart-topping hit "Shine," which dominated the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for eight weeks in 1994. Additionally, last summer saw the release of their first documentary, "Give Me A Word: The Collective Soul Story," directed by Joseph Rubinstein. This film explores the band's history and was filmed at Elvis Presley's estate during the recording of their latest album, "Here to Eternity." The documentary is available for purchase on DVD and Blu-ray.
Collective Soul Anaheim reviews
Less riffing, more songs!
The band started out solid, giving the crowd 4-5 songs straight; good groove, good musicianship (especially 'new' lead guitarist), then suddenly devolved into a drawn out drum solo, followed by two extremely long guitar duel battles with some guy named Trey who we're supposed to know??!! In this time period they probably could have played 5 more of their hits. Also, We Roland wanted the crowd to sing for too long; it's one thing to get us 'involved', and a whole other to take 5 minute breaks so you don't have to.
Ed had an attitude of gratitude from the fans, and that's great, but as you said before: "bring the hits that brought you here".
I could go, but will turn turn to the seating situation at the Grove: the seats were so tight we were practically on top of each other! Many other venues are not quite that bad and I'm a slender dude.
I'm not a 'hater', and I don't hardly ever write negative stuff; this had to be shared, though. CS easily has 20 good songs that they could have trotted out, and instead left us with about 6 out of 10 songs total (and one was a cover, and they practically played Shine twice).
Come on guys, you can do better!