Following on from their critically acclaimed second album, Black Light / White Noise, Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are taking their dynamic guitar and vocal led show on the road next year. With European tour dates starting in February in Madrid and Barcelona, the duo are delighted to now be confirming a number of South American dates, based around their just-announced performance at Bangers Open Air Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The South American tour dates are as follows:

APRIL 2026

19th – Teatro Coliseo, Santiago, CHILE (On sale now)
21st – El Teatro Flores, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA (On sale now)
24th – Tork N Roll, Curitiba, BRAZIL (Tickets on sale 4th Dec)
26th – Bangers Open Air, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL (On sale now)

Smith / Kotzen’s live band includes bassist Julia Lage and drummer Bruno Valerde, both of whom are from Brazil, and the chance to play back in their home country is not just an exciting prospect for both of them, but Adrian and Richie too.

Adrian comments, “We’re so excited to bring Smith/Kotzen to Brazil, Argentina and Chile on the back of our first ever big festival appearance. It’s great we have two musicians who come from Brazil with us and whilst we would have liked to have done more shows across the region I have to get back to Europe for Maiden rehearsals so a quick trip to these beautiful countries was all we could schedule this time…”

Richie adds, “We all took a view that one show was better than nothing when we first got the Brazilian festival offer, and it was great to hear the reaction of my wife Julia and our drummer Bruno when we confirmed it! So being able to add three more shows in South America is fantastic. I’ve always loved playing in that part of the world just as Adrian has, so to bring Smith/Kotzen there is a real buzz and hopefully the start of many more dates across that whole region in the future.”

In conjunction with the news of the South American tour dates, the duo has released the cinematic lyric video for album track ‘Blindsided’. A driving and heavy-hitting rock song, it’s one of the stand-out tracks from the band’s highly praised second album Black Light / White Noise.

The band who have released two critically acclaimed albums and two EPS now via BMG previously toured on the US West Coast and across the UK back in 2022. Adrian Smith has been performing with Iron Maiden throughout Europe in 2025 and Richie Kotzen has recently performed across North America with his solo band on a bill with John 5.

Tickets for the shows in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo are on sale now with Curitiba going on sale Dec 4th at 7pm local time.

For full European and UK tour dates, visit SmithKotzen.com