Multi-platinum country star Jon Pardi is coming to Tuscaloosa for one of the biggest football weekends of the year. Pardi will bring his Gamblin' Man Tour 2026 to the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater on Friday, October 23, at 7 p.m., the night before the University of Alabama's Homecoming football game against Texas A&M at Bryant-Denny Stadium. His fifth studio album, Honkytonk Hollywood, includes the current Top 25 single "Boots Off." The show lands on one of Tuscaloosa's highest-traffic weekends, with tens of thousands of Alabama and Texas A&M fans expected in the city for Homecoming. For more exclusive coverage of entertainment and events in West Alabama, stay connected to the Tuscaloosa Thread.