Riley Green Plots 2026 'Cowboy At It Gets' Arena Tour: List of Dates

Riley Green, fresh off receiving four CMA Award nominations last week, is already looking ahead to 2026 with his Cowboy As It Gets tour.

The 20-date outing, produced by Live Nation, will kick off April 16 at Southaven, Mississippi’s Landers Center and conclude at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Fork, North Dakota, on Aug. 22. It will include his first time headlining Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Before the Boot Barn-sponsored tour starts, Green expects to have new music out. “We’re going to go into the studio this fall and probably release new music between now and then and then try to have the whole album out around the time the tour starts,” he tells Billboard, calling from London where he was playing three sold-out shows at the O2 Forum Kentish Town.

Green likes releasing new music around the launch of a tour because it’s “so great to be able to play the songs on the road and see what songs raise their hands” as potential singles, he says. “That’s what happened with ‘Worst Way.’ [Fans] will let you know if it’s one they like. They’ll sing it louder than the others.”

The singer’s current Damn Country Music tour resumes Stateside on Sept. 26 and lasts until Dec. 13, stopping with two dates at Resorts World in Las Vegas.

Just as the current tour takes its name from a song, the 2026 outing gets its name from a tune off the recently released deluxe version of Don’t Mind If I Do. “I love the sentiment of that song, and it’s kind of a little bit of an anthemic theme to people that grew up similar to me,” he says. “We didn’t have a lot of real cowboying going on where I was at. It was just people that I thought were tough or worked with their hands. Those qualities kind of was what made someone a cowboy to me when I was a kid. That was before I wrote the song about my dad, so that’s a pretty good sentiment for a tour name.”

As he’s become an arena headliner, it’s meant returning to many venues he first played as a support act, but this time as the main draw. “It’s really awesome,” he says. “I think [moving to arenas] probably means more to me than a lot of steps in my career just because arenas are the perfect-size venue. I’ve been fortunate to be able to go on tour with a lot of great artists. I did stadiums with Luke Combs, and that was a really great opportunity. But there’s something about a stadium — it’s so big and there’s so many people that seem like they’re miles away from you. I love that an arena can kind of somewhat still feel like an intimate setting. There’s no bad ticket in an arena so that’s a lot of fun for me.”

The tour will have six artists rotating as opening acts, with three appearing on each date: Justin Moore, Drake White, Mackenzie Carpenter, Hannah McFarland, Adam Hood and Zach John King.

Green picks his openers for a variety of reasons, but lately he’s been saving a primary support spot for an act that influenced him in some way, such as Tracy Lawrence or Jamey Johnson, who will open for him on the last leg of the Damn Country Music tour.

Moore fits that slot on the 2026 tour. “I was a huge Justin Moore fan as a kid. I’ve still got a picture of me at meet and greet where he opened for Eric Church when I was about 23,” Green says. “And it’s just so cool to be able to go out on the road with him and hear him play all of his hits and maybe even introduce him to some of my fans.”

The artist presale for tickets for the Cowboy As It Gets tour start today (Sept. 16), with general tickets going on sale on Friday (Sept. 19) through RileyGreenMusic.com/tour.

Cowboy As It Gets Tour Dates:

April 16 – Southaven, MS – Landers Center#~$
April 17 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center#~$ *ON SALE 10/3
April 18 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena#~$
May 7 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion#~•
May 8 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre#~•
June 18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center#~•
June 19 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Broadview Stage at SPAC#~•
June 20 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater#~•
June 25 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center#$*
June 26 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake#$*
July 16 – Green Bay, WI – Resch Center#~•
July 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre#~•
Aug. 6 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater#/•
Aug. 7 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center#/•
Aug. 8 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live#/•
Aug. 13 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion#/•
Aug. 14 – Hartford, CT – The XFINITY Theatre#/•
Aug. 15 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre#/•
Aug. 21 – Sioux Falls, SD – Denny Sanford#$*
Aug. 22 – Grand Forks, ND – Ralph Engelstad Arena#$*