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Changes have been made to the venue’s plaza and public gathering areas
Truliant Amphitheater in north Charlotte has more than 40 concerts on the calendar for the 2026 season. (Photo courtesy of Alive Coverage)
by Ashley Fahey
Truliant Amphitheater — known as PNC Music Pavilion until a naming rights deal was signed with Truliant Federal Credit Union earlier this year — has received a bit of a refresh ahead of its 2026 concert season kicking off this past weekend.
Jeannine Beson, vice president of regional venue operations at Live Nation, which owns and operates the nearly 19,000-capacity Truliant Amphitheater, told The Ledger on Monday that the most significant upgrades have been made to the venue’s plaza areas, where it has added new green space areas, lounge seating, picnic tables and more shade.
The venue is debuting two food offerings, Jade Lane Dumplings and Tacos Del Centro, to its concessions lineup.
Live Nation has expanded its non-alcoholic offerings as well as its boozy drinks, including new cocktails and new flavors for its shaker cup cocktails.
The venue also now has what it calls value options, including $2 hot dogs, $5 beer, $7 Rebel Hen Chicken Wraps and snacks starting at $3.
Truliant Amphitheater has also completed a comprehensive accessibility certification with KultureCity, a nonprofit that certifies venues on sensory-inclusive modifications. Those changes include staff sensory training, complimentary sensory bags and pickup locations, and integration with the KultureCity app.
No changes have been made to the concert space itself, such as the stage, seating or lawn areas.
Beson said the venue has more than 40 shows on the calendar this year, and expects more than 400,000 people to come through this season.
One of the biggest complaints at Truliant Amphitheater is getting in and out of the venue, with long lines of cars and jammed parking lots before and after a show. In fact, ticketholders for past shows have claimed multiple times that they’ve missed concerts at the venue because of hours-long traffic getting into the venue, or being turned away because attendants told them the parking lots were full.
The venue is on Pavilion Boulevard, a mostly three-lane road off North Tryon Street and Interstate 485.
“It will always be on the top of the list of things we’re focused on,” Beson said when asked about the traffic issues, adding Live Nation has in the past brought in consultants to look at what could be done with vehicular site access. She said the venue has added staff and message boards to communicate in real time with concertgoers about where to go or to alert them if a traffic backup or an accident is creating additional issues.
At this time, she said, the venue has maximized what it can do, unless the city works with Live Nation on a more substantial infrastructure project.
Beson declined to share specifics about how much money was spent on this year’s renovations at the venue, saying only that it was “a significant investment.”
Locally, Live Nation otherwise operates Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre, The Fillmore and The Underground, and it also hosts concerts at Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte’s largest live-music venue. Beson said the F&B offerings at Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre have been similarly expanded to what’s now at Truliant Amphitheater.
As for the upcoming Live Nation live-music venue coming to the area around Bank of America Stadium in uptown with Tepper Sports & Entertainment, Beson said only that Live Nation is “excited to partner with them” and that there’s more to come.