The Castle Theatre Welcomes

Pokey LaFarge & His Band: Rent Money Tour

with special guest Cicada Rhythm

🗓 Friday, September 11th, 2026

⏰ Doors: 7:00pm | Show: 8:00pm

➡️ 18+. Minors Welcome with parent or guardian

• Unless otherwise noted, ALL patrons must be 18 years of age or older with valid ID to attend. Patrons under the age of 18 may attend with a parent or legal guardian.
• Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is canceled. Tickets cannot be replaced if lost, stolen, or destroyed. No refunds or exchanges. Event, Artists, Date & Time subject to change. No outside food, beverage, or oversized bags are permitted inside the venue. All persons and their belongings are subject to search upon entry. The ticket holder voluntarily assumes all risks in attending the event, whether occurring before, during, or after the event and releases the venue and its agents from all related claims.
• The Castle Theatre is a mostly standing-room venue. Unless tickets specifically state they are "SEATED", you are purchasing a standing room only ticket.
• Please note that The Castle Theatre is not responsible for tickets purchased from any third-party ticketing site and cannot guarantee the validity of any third-party site tickets. Only tickets sold through Opendate via thecastletheatre.com are guaranteed entry.

Pokey LaFarge

Rent Money

For two decades, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own effortlessly cool road as an exceptionally iconoclastic troubadour – forthright, genuine, and markedly keen to put it all out there. Rent Money now sees him pushing forward yet again in what can be safely declared his finest collection to date, both as an heartfelt expression of personal experience and as no-nonsense social commentary. With its twanging guitars, plucky rhythms, and undeniably captivating melodies, the album soars and swings, its joyous refrains belying the inescapable undercurrent of constant worry and angst that permeates these troubled times. As always, the Illinois native deftly traverses the genre boundaries, seamlessly integrating the myriad strains of 20th-century American music with a freewheeling command of earnest songcraft, inspired performance, and subversive creativity. Rent Money stands tall as an indisputable high-water mark for Pokey LaFarge – a defining collection from a one-of-a-kind artist of rare ingenuity and uncommon candor, now as ever, determinedly crafting a sure-footed brand of deeply human music all his own.

“People are always going to tell you what they think you should play,” says Pokey LaFarge, “what you should sing about, how you should sound, how you should look, how you should act. And I’ve always just been like, nah. Nope. I’ve just completely gone my own way, and hopefully I’ve been honest and authentic in the process.

“I’m just trying to make music that AI can’t replicate. Things are so homogenized right now. That’s what I’m really, really, really resistant to, especially when it comes to music. I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to conform.”