The Jonas Brothers Celebrate 20 Years at the Toyota Center

The Jonas Brothers
Toyota Center
October 19, 2025

In the words of LL Cool J, don’t call it a comeback.

So, I won’t. Let’s go with part-very-loyal-pre-existing-fan-base, part-resurgence, then. That’s what it feels like to a non-Jonatic, when the Jonas Brothers somehow keep popping up on their feed – most recently, in an ad for A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, coming to Disney+ on November 14.

The year 2025 is definitely part of the reason, as it’s Kevin, Joe, and Nick’s 20th anniversary as a band. To mark the occasion, the New Jersey-born brothers have been keeping busy.  There was JonasCon in March; a live album, Live from the O2 London, in June; and a studio album, Greetings from Your Hometown, in August. Not to mention a few collaborations with artists like Marshmello and Rascal Flatts, Joe’s second album, Music for People Who Believe in Love, released back in May, and the announcement of a Camp Rock 3 incoming.

And, of course, there’s the Jonas20: Greetings from Your Hometown Tour, which brought the band to the Toyota Center last night.

The family affair of it all extended past Kevin, Joe, and Nick, as brother-in-law Michael Deleasa performed DJ sets before the openers and right before the brothers took the stage. And, of course, the first opener of the evening was Franklin Jonas.

“I think a lot of us grew up together,” said Franklin. “See, I’m a lot of y’all’s little brother, and I’m so grateful that I am, tell you what.”

Just five years old when his brothers released their debut album in 2006, Franklin has since grown up and moved on to self-awarely co-hosting the celebrity-relative reality show Claim to Fame with Kevin and releasing his own EP in 2023. With guitar and banjo backing him up, Franklin performed a 15-minute set of original songs from his current project, Franklin Jonas & The Byzantines, along with covers of George Strait’s “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” and Coldplay’s “Yellow.”

During “Yellow,” he jumped off the stage, crossed the floor, and made the trek up into the club level, eventually traversing from sections 110 to 117. Though the moment had the arena buzzing, his stripped-down, country-tinged introspection brought an unexpected depth to the night. Songs like “Village Liquors,” with lines like “Too young to live, too young to die / I’m the aftermath of youth I sacrifice,” and “Road Soda,” with its refrain “Nothing I love more than hating my life,” marked him as a grittier, moodier counterpoint to the coming main event.

The All-American Rejects, guests at the aforementioned JonasCon, were up next. And as soon as the lights went down, fans in black-and-white checkered pants and band tees – mostly JoBros – jumped out of their seats for some light headbanging.

Founded in Oklahoma in 1999, the band leaned right into that nostalgia with their lead-off song, “Dirty Little Secret,” from 2005’s Move Along, before tearing through the rest of their high-energy, nine-song set. Turns out, two decades later, those mid-2000s pop-punk anthems have not lost their punch, as fans happily bopped along to the band’s breakthrough hit, “Swing, Swing,” and sneered out the chorus of “Gives You Hell” like they were just waiting for the chance.

Frontman and bassist Tyson Ritter was unpredictable and playful, bantering freely with the crowd (and sometimes, inexplicably, in a German accent). There was a back-and-forth with a fan who brought a sign that said, simply, “Reject me.”

“All right, well. Proposition me,” Ritter countered to the sound of laughter and catcalls.  

Much to the audience’s delight, the love fest went both ways. “We play a lot of these JoBros shows,” he told the crowd, “and I’ll tell you what, this crowd right here—you jumpers, you people that are actually into this shit—I am all about.” So about it, he pulled out a “giant invisible knife” and said: “I’m dipping it into the invisible honey and I’m spreading it all over your ass cracks that’s how much I love you. And I will happily eat a sandwich out of that place – that’s how endeared I am.”

Unsurprisingly, Ritter noted that “the JoBros team” don’t like it when he swears.

Almost exactly on time, the lights dropped for the last time, and the arena erupted as the Jonas Brothers cracked open a time capsule with “Year 3000,” the Busted cover that launched their Disney-era fame. The song was met with deafening screams. There’s no way to say for sure, but it seemed everyone in the building knew, and shouted, every lyric. The brothers jumped to the present with “Love Me to Heaven,” the first single off Greetings from Your Hometown. They also took the opportunity to do some introductions.

“Tonight, we are celebrating 20 years together, and not just the three of us on this stage, but each and every one of you who’s part of this story,” said Nick.

From there and across the hour and 45 minutes they stayed on stage, the atmosphere remained celebratory and joyous, stretching across the years as the band seamlessly threaded early hits like “S.O.S.” and “Lovebug” into their set alongside their more recent material. This included five tracks off Greetings, showing that while their sound has grown and evolved, their pop instincts are perfectly intact. That sound, by the way, was further brought to life by an impressive 11-piece backing band with a particularly well-utilized horn section.

Between songs, the brothers’ camaraderie and warmth came through. Joe dedicated “Little Bird” to parents and anyone who plays a parental role and later led a fan-request segment that produced snippets of deep cuts like “Got Me Going Crazy,” “You Got the Right,” and “Inseparable.” “Spaceman,” requested by Kevin for Nick, drew loud cheers for its Houston mention.

Luckily, the set list had room for a couple of solo spotlights. Joe turned the arena into a dance party with “Cake by the Ocean,” introduced by his DNCE guitarist JinJoo Lee, while Nick’s sultry “Jealous” showed his skill for R&B-infused pop. Colombian singer Ela Taubert emerged onto the stage to join Joe for “¿Cómo Pasó?,” a song she performed with him at last year’s Latin Grammys, and stayed for the following song, “Slow Motion.”

The night’s nostalgia reached its peak during a Camp Rock sing-along. Collectively, “Play My Music,” “Gotta Find You,” and “Introducing Me” got some of the biggest pops of the night. But as the night wound down, the focus shifted from those Disney Channel memories to something more personal.

Before the confetti and goodbyes, the brothers circled back to where it all began with “Please Be Mine,” the first song they ever wrote together. Finally, Franklin returned to the stage to join them for “When You Look Me in the Eyes.” Together, the two songs triumphantly underscored the tour’s familial and retrospective themes, and the celebration was complete.

Set List

Franklin Jonas
Break a Leg
Yellow
All My Ex’s Live in Texas
Road Soda
Village Liquors

All-American Rejects
Dirty Little Secret
Someday’s Gone
Swing, Swing
I Wanna
Sweat
Search Party!
Move Along
Easy Come, Easy Go
Gives You Hell

Jonas Brothers
Year 3000
Love Me to Heaven
Only Human
Mirror to the Sky
Don’t Throw It Away
S.O.S.
Sucker
Little Bird
Fan Requests: Got Me Going Crazy, You Got the Right, Inseparable, Spaceman
Waffle House
Vacation Eyes
Celebrate!
No Time to Talk
Cake by the Ocean
Jealous
¿Cómo Pasó?
Slow Motion
Backwards
Play My Music
Gotta Find You
Introducing Me
Lovebug
Leave Before You Love Me
Burnin’ Up
Please Be Mine
When You Look Me in the Eyes

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