Cyril Neville with special guest King Youngblood
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$59 ($72.69 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating
$49 ($60 w. taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating
$39 ($48.46 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$44 ($51 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
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One of the founding fathers of the New Orleans sound, Cyril Neville comes to Minneapolis!
With a signature funky-soul, rock-jazz sound that has influenced countless artists and entertained millions of fans over his five-decade career, Mr. Neville is a vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, painter, cultural icon, and activist – richly deserving of his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s recorded with a Who’s Who of the rock world including Bob Dylan, Jimmy Buffett, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Branford Marsalis, and Carlos Santana. A prolific writer, Mr. Neville has co-authored songs with Bono, Allen Toussant, Trombone Shorty, Taj Mahal, and many others.
A not-to-be-missed night for fans of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Meters, Uptown Ruler, Neville Brothers, and lovers of New Orleans music and culture. Seattle-based alt-rock Afro-punk band King Youngblood kick off this high-energy night of music.
Cyril Neville, the Uptown Ruler, brings a lifetime of dreams come true. This two-time Grammy-winning icon is as brilliant and beautiful on stage and in his recorded work. In this new chapter of his creative life, Cyril levels up even more with new songs, a fresh perspective on his decades of performance worldwide, and a determined eye on the future. As Quint Davis, Founder and Head of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival watching Mr. Neville perform at the 2025 Jazz Fest Congo Square Stage said,” He’s still got it.”
Born in 1948 in New Orleans, the youngest of the Neville Brothers was raised in a musical household, with his brothers Aaron, Art and Charles all making waves on the local musical scene. Their uncle George Landry was Big Chief Jolly of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, and young Cyril cut his teeth singing and playing percussion with the group. At 19, he joined his brother’s band, Art Neville and the Neville Sounds, and released his first single a year later. Art’s band soon merged into the seminal group, The Meters, with Cyril, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste. Their early releases – the singles “Sissy Strut, “LookA-Py-Py,” and “Sophisticated Sissy,” as well as the albums Cabbage Alley and the Neville Brothers’ Fire on the Bayou have become classics, and their funky grooves built a foundation for a large swath of today’s American popular music. The Meter’s reputation was cemented when the Rolling Stones offered them an opening spot on their 1975 world tour. Art and Cyril left The Meters in 1977, and with Aaron and Charles formed the Neville Brothers. For 35 years the group rocked audiences from Tipitinas in New Orleans to Taipei playing venues all over the world with their imminently danceable funk rock. Their recordings such as the Grammy-winning Yellow Moon and equally successful follow-up Brother’s Keeper have entered the canon of classic American Music. The Neville Brothers have received four nominations to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and hopefully one day will receive their long overdue flowers there.
Cyril Neville has collected many accolades over the course of his 50 years plus career, including a Grammy award for the song, “Healing Chant” from the 1989 album, Yellow Moon produced by Daniel Lanois. In 2017, The Neville Brothers received the Austin City Limits Lifetime Achievement Award and a year later, The Meters were honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Perhaps Mr. Neville’s greatest joy is singing, recording and performing with his son Omari Neville whose band Omari Neville and the Fuel tours as Cyril’s backup band.
Seattle-based alt-rock band King Youngblood is celebrating a plethora of newness – unleashing new music, new videos, new multimedia projects, fresh merch, and bold social justice initiatives. King Youngblood, led by founder, bandleader, and guitarist, Cameron Lavi-Jones, have built their reputation on electrifying, take-no-prisoners performances, intentional songwriting, fearless leadership championing alternative Black artists via their Jack Daniel’s–sponsored Black & Loud Fest, now expanding across the country. A command-ing voice both onstage and off, Lavi-Jones has emerged as a generational voice in the fight for social justice and authenticity in art. The buzz is undeniable: across the United States and certainly at home in the Pacific Northwest, King Youngblood is receiving the torch of Seattle’s grunge and alt-rock legacy. They’re reclaiming rock’s roots with thunderous precision, focused afro-punk energy, and a live show that leaves crowds breathless.