Fruit Bats | Al Olender

Ages 18 and up
Fruit Bats
Thursday, July 16
Fruit Bats
July 16, 2026
with special guest Al Olender

The Ramkat
Doors: 7 PM | Show: 8 PM

* The Ramkat & Gas Hill Drinking Room are 18+ venues, but children under 18 years old can attend most shows when accompanied by their parent(s). 
* We reserve the right to charge an underage fee of $5.00 at the door for all patrons under the age of 21 years old on the day of the show.
* All sales are final. Performances, schedules, programs and artists are subject to change.
* If you choose the Print at Home or Mobile Delivery method, you will not have access to view your tickets until seven (7) days before the show date.
* No refunds will be given unless a performance is canceled in its entirety, with no replacement performance scheduled.
* In the unlikely event that a performance is canceled due to extreme weather conditions, The Ramkat will notify ticket buyers.
* Any attempt to resell tickets to events at The Ramkat or Gas Hill Drinking Room at a price greater than the face value of the ticket is in violation of NCGS 55-1-22 and will be referred to criminal authorities. We reserve all rights to pursue civil damages for harm to our venue and/or our customers.

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Fruit Bats is an American rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Noted as an early entrant into the folk-rock boom of the early 2000s, the group has had many personnel changes but revolves around singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson. In 2000, Eric D. Johnson was an instructor at The Old Town School of Folk Music, led his own space-rock band called I Rowboat, and was a guitarist in various groups, including Califone and The Shins. He also had a four-track solo outlet called Fruit Bats, which he had been working on since 1997. Fruit Bats had begun to evolve into a band with the inclusion of I Rowboat members Dan Strack and Brian Belval and in 2001, their debut record Echolocation was released on Califone's imprint, Perishable Records.