Innsbrook After Hours leaving Henrico

The popular Innsbrook after Hours concert series, a staple of the Glen Allen business and residential community for more than two decades, is leaving for Caroline County.

Organizers made the announcement Monday, indicating that the series this year would move to The Meadow Event Park (home of the State Fair of Virginia) and be known as “After Hours Concerts at The Meadow Event Park.”

The first show at the new venue is planned for May 14, featuring Jamey Johnson.

EventMakers-USA, which produces the series, is planning for a season of at least 30 shows this year. It touted a “significantly larger” footprint at the new site and more flexibility to present shows based upon social distancing guidelines.

Company officials had intended originally for last year to be the last at the Innsbrook site, planning an exit to make way for planned development in the area where the concerts have been held in recent years. The season was cancelled by the pandemic, but then initial plans for this year’s season called for it to resume at the Innsbrook site.

But that changed Monday with the announcement of the move.

In an email to the Citizen, EventsMakers-USA President Larry Creeger said that he anticipates the series could “very possibly” remain at Meadow Event Park for many more years but said that his company also is interested in bringing a concert series back to Henrico “if a suitable location can be found.

“Our goal is to provide the area with multiple series under the ‘After Hours Concerts’ banner,” he said.

Creeger said that while his company is discussing with the Innsbrook community how it might assist with what it expects to be a new iteration of the Innsbrook concert series (most likely weekly Wednesday shows, in a return to its original format), “we all know that Innsbrook After Hours will always be in Innsbrook with or without our participation.”

Anyone who holds tickets for shows originally planned for Innsbrook can use them for those shows at Meadow Event Park. Those who want refunds must do so by April 27.

Additional shows scheduled at After Hours Concerts at Meadow Event Park include:
• Aaron Lewis on June 4;
• Kip Moore on June 18;
• Indigo Girls on June 19;
• Blues Traveler with JJ Grey & Mofro on June 25;
• Hanson on June 26;
• Toby Keith on July 17;
• Sublime with Rome and Dirty Heads on July 18;
• Lee Brice on August 6;
• Get The Led Out on August 12;
• Train with Vertical Horizon on August 13;
• Jon Pardi with Larry Fleet on August 14;
• Tower of Power on August 18;
• Foreigner on August 20;
• The Commodores on August 26;
• Steve Earle and Los Lobos on August 27;
• Scotty McCreery on August 28;
• Ludacris on September 17;
• Lynyrd Skynyrd on September 18;
• Brad Paisley on September 23.

Tickets for the Kip Moore, Sublime, Foreigner, Scotty McCreery and Brad Paisley shows go on sale Friday, April 2, at 10 a.m. A limited number of Early Bird General Admission tickets will be available for each of those shows from April 2-8. Tickets for all other shows are on sale now at http://www.afterhoursconcertseries.com. Additional shows will be announced in the coming weeks, according to promoters.

Guidelines and seating arrangements are available at http://www.afterhoursconcertseries.com/Covid-19.