You’d be hard-pressed to find a more outspoken musician than Jason Isbell.
Or a more gifted singer-songwriter.
So for Boise fans of the Alabama-born, six-time Grammy winner, it’s time to mark the 2025 concert calendar. Isbell and his backing band, The 400 Unit, will headline an outdoor show Saturday, May 17, at the Idaho Botanical Garden’s Outlaw Field .
Tickets will become available to the general public starting at 10 a.m. Friday for $60 at Ticketmaster. Garden members can buy them beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday for $55.
Isbell, 45, is no stranger to Idaho. He’s played gigs in Boise and Ketchum as a solo frontman and during a six-year stint as a member of Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. His most recent gig in the City of Trees was headlining at the 2,000-capacity Morrison Center last year.
Outlaw Field is a well-deserved jump to the next level; it holds 4,000.
In August, Isbell performed at the Democratic National Convention, a decision that surprised no one who had followed him on Twitter, then X, over the years. (He left the platform recently and moved to Threads .) Isbell’s left-wing politics and penchant for opinion-driven kerfuffles online had become near-legendary.