By Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone | March 16, 2026
Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin frontman announced intimate performance with Colorado Symphony this fall
In 1994, Andrew McMahon got to see his first-ever concert: Billy Joel at the Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland. He was in sixth grade, and his parents gifted him tickets to the River of Dreams tour for Christmas. “As soon as I started playing the piano, my parents gave me Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II,” he tells Rolling Stone over the phone. “They were like, ‘OK, if you’re going to be a piano singer-songwriter, this is your study material.’”
More than three decades later, McMahon found himself at Carnegie Hall on March 12, performing “Piano Man” at The Music of Billy Joel, a tribute concert honoring the legend. McMahon had opened for Joel in 2017, but this was a full-circle moment he’d never experienced before. Not only was it his first time performing at the iconic New York City venue, but Joel himself was watching from the opera box. “Jesus man, what a night,” McMahon says. “It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done, but it was one of the most magical moments I’ve had on a stage in my whole life. Getting to finish and then look up in the seats and see him do a standing ovation is pretty incredible.”
On Monday, McMahon will announce his own special evening: a solo show with the Colorado Symphony on November 13, where he’ll perform orchestral renditions of songs from his bands Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin, and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Held at Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall at Denver Performing Arts Complex, the orchestra will be led by music director Peter Oundijan, resident conductor Christopher Dragon, associate conductor Wilbur Lin, and conductor laureate Marin Alsop.