Three shows at Orion Amphitheater last year wasn’t enough. Widespread Panic is coming back for another triptych this summer. The beloved improvisation rock band has announced another three-night run, set for July 28-30, at Orion, the buzzed-about Huntsville amphitheater.

Tickets are $70 per show (plus applicable fees) and on sale 10 a.m. March 10 via axs.com. More info via widespreadpanic.com and theorionhuntsville.com.

Widespread Panic’s most streamed studio tracks on Spotify include “Pickin’ Up The Pieces,” “Ain’t Life Grand,” “Up All Night,” and “Climb To Safety.”

But the band, founded circa 1986 in Athens, Ga., has made their name and fortune on live performances. The band’s elastic Southern interplay has made them stars of the jam-band scene for the last 35 years or so.

The band’s current lineup is anchored by founding members John Bell, on vocals and guitar, and bassist Dave Schools. Keyboardist John “JoJo” Hermann and percussionist Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz are classic-era members of the group, joined in later years by drummer Duane Trucks and Jimmy Herring, a standout guitarist who’s also worked with the likes of the Allman Brothers and Aquarium Rescue Unit.

Widespread Panic’s classic albums include LPs like their 1988 debut “Space Wrangler” and 1999′s “‘Til the Medicine Takes.” Their 1993 album “Everyday” was recorded at Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and the cover art featured a photo of a young and then-unknown actress named Angelina Jolie.

Widespread Panic first performed in Huntsville back in the late ‘80s, at iconic local dive-bar Tip Top Café. By the mid ‘90s, the band had graduated to amphitheaters, theaters, coliseums and arenas.

On April 3, 1996 in Huntsville, Widespread Panic played what’s widely regarded as one of the band’s best concerts ever. That epic show, recently released as a vinyl boxset after earlier digital and CD releases, took place at the Von Braun Center arena.

In addition to fan-beloved originals such as “Porch Song” and “Love Tractor” that night at the VBC, the band ran through inspired covers of Bloodkin’s “Can’t Get High,” Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” and Dr. John’s “I Walk On Gilded Splinters.”

The rock gods seemed to have decreed 2023 as “the summer of jam” at Orion Amphitheater. Multi-night runs there by extended-solo enthusiasts Phish and Billy Strings have been previously announced.

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