Cockburn's latest album, released in September, is an all-instrumental effort called Crowing Ignites, and the guitarist opened the show with the album's lead-off track, "Bardo Rush." After the song Bruce told the crowd a bit about the album and advised, "Don't be afraid, it's not an all-instrumental show," garnering a laugh when he mimicked the panic of an instrumental-fearing fan, "Oh no! What have I done?!" Playing an assortment of acoustic guitars throughout the evening and accompanied only by his nephew John Aaron Cockburn on additional acoustic guitar, accordion and harmony vocals, Cockburn performed the contemplative "Last Night of the World" along with "Night Train" and "World of Wonders" early in the show. Among other songs played in the first set were oldie "Peggy's Kitchen Wall" and the Arizona-inspired "Child of the Wind" from his Nothing but a Burning Light album. There was palpable wonderment in Cockburn's voice as he described the snowy Tucson day that made him want to write the song.

After a brief intermission Cockburn returned for a second set that began with another cut from Crowing Ignites, "April in Memphis," which has the title that it does because he wrote the song on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day earlier this year. Other songs played in the second set included "Bone in My Ear," "States I'm In," "Jesus Train," "Call it Democracy" and arguably Cockburn's best-known song, the pop hit "Wondering Where the Lions Are." "If a Tree Falls" closed out the set but Cockburn returned for a three-song encore, beginning with one more new cut, "Blind Willie" and then "Forty Years in the Wilderness" and "When the Sun Goes Nova."