The horse is out of the bag and the Dog’s Out The Cage about Mountain Grass Unit, the rising Birmingham, AL-bred jamgrass band. After bolting straight from Berklee College of Music into the massive 55-date Runnin’ From Trouble spring/summer tour, Mountain Grass Unit is already looking ahead to 2026 with the announcement of initial dates for the Dog’s Out The Cage tour.
After wrapping 2025 with the band’s debut at the Strings & Sol destination getaway (12/11–12/15), MGU will kick off 2026 in the Bluegrass State with a January 15th concert at The Burl in Lexington. The 22-date tour consists of January and April legs, starting the year with headlining shows in Louisville, KY (1/16), Peoria, IL (1/17), Des Moines, IA (1/19), and Omaha, NE (1/20), before opening for Kitchen Dwellers at Denver’s Mission Ballroom (1/24)—poised to be one of MGU’s largest shows to date. Mountain Grass Unit will round out the month with supporting gigs alongside The Infamous Stringdusters in Cleveland (1/28), Cincinnati (1/29), and Chicago (1/30).
Come April, MGU will hit the road again for headlining shows throughout the Southeast, including Columbia, SC (4/10), Wilmington, NC (4/11), Savannah, GA (4/14), and a five-city sprint through Florida, making stops in Gainesville (4/15), Ponte Verda Beach (4/17), Orlando (4/18), West Palm Beach (4/19), and Tampa Bay (4/21). Mountain Grass Unit will then wrap the Dog’s Out The Cage tour by coming home to Alabama for shows in Mobile (4/23) and finally Birmingham (4/24).
The last year has seen Mountain Grass Unit chart exponential growth, selling out 22 dates on the Runnin’ From Trouble Tour. Outside of its own sold-out shows, MGU logged impressive appearances at Telluride Bluegrass, DelFest, and Northlands, and just last month, picked up the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)’s Momentum Artist of the Year Award. The band’s talent and tenacity are recognized from the crowd to the stage, as members of the quartet have sat in with Billy Strings, Daniel Donato, and Kitchen Dwellers over the past several months alone.
An artist pre-sale for the newly announced 2026 Mountain Grass Unit tour dates begins today, October 15th, at 10 a.m. local venue time and runs through Thursday, October 16th at 10 p.m. local venue time. There will be another promoter/venue pre-sale on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time, followed by the general on-sale Friday, October 17th at 10 a.m. local time. Find tickets on the band’s website, click below for a full list of 2026 tour dates, and check out Mountain Grass Unit’s recent sessions for Relix and Paste magazines.
Mountain Grass Unit — Hill Country Live — New York, NY — 9/4/25 — Relix Session
Mountain Grass Unit — Northlands Music & Arts Festival — Swanzey, NH — 6/13/25 — Paste Magazine
