Saratoga Performing Arts Center — DMB Posters

Dave Matthews Band concert posters from Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY — 44 prints in the DMB Poster Vault archive.

Saratoga Performing Arts Center — SPAC to anyone who's been — sits inside Saratoga Spa State Park in upstate New York, ringed by pine woods and the mineral springs the town is named for. DMB has stopped here nearly every summer they've toured since the nineties, usually for two nights. For East Coast fans, SPAC plays the role the Gorge plays out west: the run you build your summer around.

The archive holds a SPAC print from nearly every touring year since 2003 — few venues can say that. Methane Studios designed close to half of them, which gives the early catalog a consistent look, and the recent night-by-night runs have brought in James Eads, Daniel Danger, Todd Slater, and N.C. Winters, among others. The park keeps showing up in the art: pines, springs, the amphitheater tucked into the trees.

Because the stop is almost always two nights, SPAC posters tend to come in pairs, and collectors often chase the full set from a year they attended. It's one of the deepest single-venue collections you can build without leaving the East Coast.