Prizefighter Lands At Spectrum Center

Uptown gets the arena two nights running, Bryan Adams on Saturday and Mumford & Sons on Sunday. John Mulaney takes a pair at Ovens, The Fray bring the Summer of Light tour to the Music Factory lawn, and Evanescence finally play the date they lost in June.

The Marquee

Mumford & Sons close the week at Spectrum Center on Sunday, August 9, with Medium Build opening. The Prizefighter Tour carries their sixth album, out February 20, 2026, and the North American leg runs 28 dates from June into October across stadiums, arenas and amphitheaters. Charlotte draws the arena version, which suits this band more than it might sound. The harmonies that made their name still want a room big enough to hand them back, and 20,000 people in a hard shell does that better than a lawn ever has. Sunday also works in your favor Uptown. The office crowd is gone, the decks empty out, and getting in is easier than it would be twenty four hours earlier.

Around The Neighborhoods

The same Uptown arena works the night before. Bryan Adams plays Spectrum Center on Saturday, August 8 with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, the second US leg of Roll With The Punches, which opened July 24 in St. Louis and wraps August 16 in Milwaukee. Benatar and Giraldo opened the first leg last fall too, so the pairing is well worn by now in the way that usually means the sets run tight. A few blocks over, Middle C Jazz spends Thursday, August 6 on a Stevie Wonder night led by saxophonist Mike Jones with vocalist Tony Hightower.

University City has the strangest run of the week. Evanescence finally play Truliant Amphitheater on Tuesday, August 4 with Spiritbox and Nova Twins, the date that slipped out of June 18. Dig out those tickets before you leave the house, the originals are still good. Friday, August 7 the same amphitheater goes to bass, with Tape B headlining and Levity along.

Out at the Music Factory the two rooms pull in different directions. The Fray headline the Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre on Friday, August 7, sharing the Summer of Light tour with Dashboard Confessional and Colony House starting the night. The amphitheater holds 5,000 and sits right next to the Fillmore, so on a night like this the sound carries across the whole complex. Inside the Fillmore on Wednesday, August 5, Chance Pena plays with Hans Williams, while Nine Vicious works the Underground downstairs the same night. The Underground turns over to Cumbiatron on Saturday, August 8 at 9, 21 and over.

NoDa keeps its own pace. The Evening Muse opens the week with its Find Your Muse open mic on Monday, August 3, the long running night where the room is half performers, then hands Thursday, August 6 to songwriter Aaron Rizzo.

East on Independence, Ovens Auditorium closes the week in Spanish. Bronco bring the norteño and cumbia catalog on Sunday, August 9 at 8, decades of songs that a Charlotte crowd will sing louder than the band. Worth knowing before you park, Ovens runs cashless, so leave the cash at home. South of town, Tell Me Lies works the Fleetwood Mac songbook at The Amp Ballantyne on Friday, August 7 with an early 5:30 start, and up the road in Kannapolis, Andy Grammer plays Village Park Amphitheater on Saturday, August 8 with Walk Off The Earth.

The Comedy Card

John Mulaney is the whole story this week. He takes Ovens Auditorium on Friday, August 7 and again on Saturday, August 8, both at 7:30, on the first leg of Mister Whatever. Two nights in a hall that size is a lot of Mulaney for one city, and the Saturday show is the one that will run long.

The clubs fill in around him. George Wallace holds the Comedy Zone at the Music Factory across Friday, August 7 and Saturday, August 8, with Peter Antoniou bracketing the weekend on Thursday, August 6 and Sunday, August 9. Uptown at Duckworth's, Shelly Belly runs Thursday, August 6 through Saturday, August 8 across early and late sets, after Gaspare Randazzo opens the room on Wednesday, August 5.

Next Week's Radar

Truliant Amphitheater barely gets a night off. Muse open it Monday, August 10 with Portugal. The Man and The Temper Trap, Kesha follows Wednesday, August 12 with Chromeo, Tim McGraw takes Friday, August 14, 5 Seconds of Summer play Saturday, August 15, and Avenged Sevenfold close it Sunday, August 16 with Good Charlotte. Away from the amphitheater, Franz Ferdinand squeeze into the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa on Tuesday, August 11, and Mon Laferte plays Ovens on Wednesday, August 12. Five amphitheater nights in seven days will thin out somebody's wallet, so pick early.