Jeff Buckley made one studio album. It sold modestly during his lifetime — roughly 175,000 copies, a three-star notice in Rolling Stone, Mojo’s album of the year — and then he drowned in Wolf River Harbor in Memphis in 1997, at thirty, and spent the next three decades becoming the kind of artist whose record only gets bigger as fewer people who were there are around to remember it. Grace passed two million in worldwide sales by 2011 and went RIAA platinum in 2016, nearly two decades after his death. The Grace tribute band brings the record to House of Blues Houston on Friday, June 26 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $29.
About Grace – Jeff Buckley Tribute
The four-piece — Tony Bernardo on vocals and rhythm guitar, Lucas Solórzano on lead guitar, Josh Hirst on bass, Jon Fisher on drums — has been playing Grace in its entirety since their 2024 debut at Bombyx Center in Massachusetts, where a review in Noise Is Power praised Bernardo’s “confidence and connection to Buckley’s material.” In August 2024, Bernardo sat for an NPR All Things Considered conversation about the record at thirty years, describing the tribute shows as “like a church for Jeff’s music.” He has talked about learning to sing by running the album on repeat as a teenager; the band’s stated mission is to perform the material “as close to its original format as possible.”
That means the full ten-track sequence, front to back: “Mojo Pin” opening with its slow build, through “Last Goodbye” and “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over,” three covers — Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Benjamin Britten’s “Corpus Christi Carol,” Nina Simone’s “Lilac Wine” — and out through “Dream Brother” at the close. Fifty-one minutes. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie have all gone on record praising the album; “Hallelujah” was later inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The 2026 run is deliberate: Houston on June 26, New Orleans the next night, then Dublin in September. Three dates. They are not diluting this.
About House of Blues Houston
House of Blues Houston at 1204 Caroline St holds 1,800. It is an A-list room on the Houston concert calendar — the right size for this kind of show, large enough for the material to breathe, not so large that it loses focus.
Tickets & Show Details
Tickets are $29. Showtime is 7:00 PM on Friday, June 26, 2026 at House of Blues Houston, 1204 Caroline St, Houston, TX. Tickets available below.