Article Contributed by BAM Music Marketing
Published on 2026-10-07
Phish will return to Madison Square Garden this winter for a four-night New Year’s run, December 30 – January 2, culminating with the band’s 100th performance at The Garden on January 2, 2027.
To mark the milestone, Phish today premiered a new video celebrating the longtime Madison Square Garden employees who have been part of the band’s shows there over the years. Told through the memories and experiences of ushers, bartenders, concession and merchandise staff, and others, the video reflects on decades of Phish shows through the eyes of the people who have welcomed the band and its fans year after year.
Phish first took the stage at Madison Square Garden on December 30, 1994. In the 32 years since, The Garden has become an enduring part of the band’s history, hosting some of Phish’s most memorable performances and traditions – from 17 New Year’s Eve celebrations to 2017’s Baker’s Dozen, the unprecedented 13-show run during which the band performed 237 songs with no repeats. This past summer, Phish returned to MSG for five nights celebrating music from the band’s early and mid-90s era, bringing their total to 96 performances at the arena.
A ticket request period is currently underway at tickets.phish.com and ends Monday, October 12th at Noon ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, October 16 at Noon ET. A limited number of travel packages (hotel + tickets) will go on sale Thursday, October 8 at Noon ET at https://phishnye.100xhospitality.com/.
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Phish's tour continues tonight in Richmond, VA – the band’s second performance there in 32 years – before stops in Jacksonville, FL and Huntsville, AL. Phish will return to Mexico for the 10th anniversary of Phish: Riviera Maya, January 27–30, 2027, at Moon Palace Cancún. The four-night event will feature eight sets from Phish, along with late-night DJ sets from James Murphy and Questlove and comedy performances from Fred Armisen, Rory Scovel, Beth Stelling, Ali Macofsky, and Phil Hanley. All-inclusive packages are available now at phishrivieramaya.com.
PHISH - LIVE 2026/2027
OCTOBER
7 – Richmond, VA – Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront
9 – Jacksonville, FL – VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
10 – Huntsville, AL – The Orion Amphitheater
11 – Huntsville, AL – The Orion Amphitheater
DECEMBER
30 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
31 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
JANUARY 2027
1 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
2 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
27 - Riviera Cancun, MX - Phish: Riviera Maya 2027
28 - Riviera Cancun, MX - Phish: Riviera Maya 2027
29 - Riviera Cancun, MX - Phish: Riviera Maya 2027
30 - Riviera Cancun, MX - Phish: Riviera Maya 2027
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ABOUT PHISH:
Phish – Trey Anastasio (guitar, vocals), Jon Fishman (drums, vocals), Mike Gordon (bass, vocals), and Page McConnell (keyboards, vocals) – has earned one of music’s most dedicated fan communities for its blend of idiosyncratic songcraft, extended improvisation, and immersive live performances, all fusing a variety of genres into their own freewheeling sound and vision.
Formed in 1983 in Burlington, VT, Phish has released 16 studio albums, beginning with 1989’s Junta and continuing through 2024’s Evolve, released on the band’s own JEMP Records. In 2002, the band launched LivePhish, which offers high-quality soundboard recordings of every show, regular releases from Phish’s substantial archive, and 4k live webcasts. LivePhish+, the band’s streaming service, is the most successful artist-driven service of its kind, offering unlimited on-demand access to the entire LivePhish catalog.
Widely recognized among live music’s most beloved and inventive artists, Phish has played over 2,000 shows since their formation, regularly selling out multiple nights at arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums across North America, Halloween extravaganzas, and four-night New Year’s Eve celebrations at NYC’s world-famous Madison Square Garden. To date, Phish have performed 87 sold-out shows at The Garden since their debut performance there in 1994. In 2017, Phish performed The Bakers’ Dozen, a 13-night concert series that saw the band play 237 unique songs, repeating none during the entire run. The 13 shows concluded with Phish being presented with a banner commemorating the unprecedented series, which hangs in The Garden’s rafters.
In 1996, Phish presented The Clifford Ball, the first of 11 self-produced festivals, held on the decommissioned Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York, and influenced a new generation of American rock festivals, including Bonnaro,o among others. Phish marked the turn of the millennium with a New Year’s Eve festival at Florida’s Big Cypress Indian Reservation, drawing a record-setting attendance of 80,000 people, playing an historic seven-hour set, culminating at dawn on New Year’s Day.
2024 proved to be a landmark year for Phish, including their highly acclaimed four-night sold-out run at Sphere in Las Vegas. In addition, the band’s annual summer live run was highlighted by Mondegreen, a four-day festival at The Woodlands in Dover, DE. The band’s 11th self-produced festival and first in nine years, Mondegreen, was celebrated in a GQ feature which hailed Phish for “what may be the most singular and stubbornly idiosyncratic career of any major American rock band.”
In 1997, Phish founded The WaterWheel Foundation to oversee the band’s various charitable activities, harnessing the kindness of the Phish fan community to create positive change. WaterWheel fulfills this mission by collecting donations for local nonprofit organizations in association with Phish tour dates via WaterWheel’s Touring Division. WaterWheel also supports non-profits based in Phish’s home state of Vermont, especially those focused on cleaning up the Lake Champlain watershed. WaterWheel chooses beneficiaries from a wide sphere of causes including those working to protect the environment, promote social justice, fight food insecurity, provide music education, register voters, and those that help women and children, the homeless, and others in need. 2023 saw Phish perform two benefit concerts at Saratoga Springs, NY’s Broadview Stage at SPAC, raising over $3.5M for flood recovery efforts in Vermont and Upstate New York. In 2024, Phish performed a three-night stand at Albany, NY’s MVP Arena benefitting the Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program and its recently opened facility in Ludlow, VT. 100% of all net proceeds from the three concerts – including ticket revenues, merchandise sales, and a pay-per-view livestream – generated over $4M in support of the Divided Sky Foundation, the non-profit addiction recovery organization started by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio.
For more information or to donate, please see www.waterwheelfoundation.org.
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