11x Grammy Award-winner Brandi Carlile returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, where she performed “Church & State” solo on piano and spoke with the host. Carlile also performed a special web exclusive version of Alphaville’s “Forever Young.”
The appearance adds to another triumphant year for Carlile, who will continue her extensive “The Human Tour” through the fall, including stops at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre (three nights), Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena, Austin’s Moody Center and Santa Barbara’s Santa Barbara Bowl among many others. She will also headline Newport Folk Festival on July 26 and return to The Gorge Amphitheatre this spring with her “Echoes Through the Canyon” weekend on May 29, 30 and 31, with The Highwomen headlining night three.
Additionally, the eighth edition of Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend will take place in Riviera Maya, Mexico January 14-18, 2027. Blind Faith tickets are on-sale starting today at 1:00PM ET. Full details can be found at www.girlsjustwannaweekend.com.
In the midst of yet another groundbreaking year, Carlile’s renowned new album, Returning To Myself—produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon—debuted at #7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart this past fall. Stream/purchase HERE (Interscope Records/Lost Highway).
Carlile was also recently honored as one of TIME’s 2026 Women of the Year, performed a “gorgeous” (Billboard) rendition of “America The Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX (watch HERE), appeared on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series and NBC’s Saturday Night Live as musical guest for the fourth time, was featured on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, The Howard Stern Show, NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin and The Drew Barrymore Show, and spoke with The New York Times for an in-depth profile. Additionally, Carlile’s song, “You Without Me,” from Returning to Myself was featured twice in the season three finale of Shrinking, out now on Apple TV.
Carlile is an Oscar-nominated and 11x Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, performer and producer, 2x EMMY-winning composer, lyricist and writer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author and activist, who is known as one of music’s most respected voices. Throughout her acclaimed career, Carlile has released eight studio albums including Who Believes in Angels?, the universally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated collaborative album with her childhood hero, Elton John, which debuted at #1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S.
Additionally, Carlile is a renowned producer with recent Grammy-winning projects from Joni Mitchell and Brandy Clark. She also produced and recorded a rendition of Indigo Girls’ “Closer To Fine” with her wife, Catherine, which was included on Barbie The Album as well as a version of “Home,” which was featured in the final season of Ted Lasso. She received her first Oscar nomination in the Original Song category in January 2025 for “Never Too Late,” a Grammy-nominated track written alongside Elton John, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt for the Disney+ documentary of the same name.
Beloved by her peers, Carlile has collaborated with artists such as The Highwomen, Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, Jacob Collier, P!nk and Dolly Parton. Carlile was named OUT Magazine’s 2023 “Icon of the Year,” awarded Billboard’s Women In Music “Trailblazer Award,” CMT’s Next Women of Country “Impact Award” and NMPA’s 2023 Songwriter Icon Award and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association. On top of being a musician and writer, Carlile is a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $9 million for grassroots causes to date. Carlile lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah.
BRANDI CARLILE UPCOMING TOUR DATES
May 20 /// Bend, OR /// Hayden Homes Amphitheater<
May 21 /// Bend, OR /// Hayden Homes Amphitheater<
May 29 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre* (SOLD OUT)
May 30 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre† (SOLD OUT)
May 31 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre‡
June 6 /// Greenville, SC /// Peace Center Concert Hall‡‡
June 7 /// Charleston, SC /// College of Charleston
Cistern Yard (SOLD OUT)
June 9 /// Savannah, GA /// Johnny Mercer Theatre‡‡
June 10 /// Asheville, NC /// Thomas Wolfe Auditorium‡‡
July 26 /// Newport, RI /// Newport Folk Festival (SOLD OUT)
August 13 /// Portland, ME /// Cross Insurance Arena+
August 14 /// Uncasville, CT /// Mohegan Sun Arena+
August 16 /// Bethel, NY /// Bethel Woods Center for the Arts+
August 18 /// Lenox, MA /// Tanglewood – Koussevitzky Music Shed+
August 20 /// Canandaigua, NY /// CMAC#
August 21 /// Rochester Hills, MI /// Meadow Brook Amphitheatre#
August 23 /// Grand Rapids, MI /// Acrisure Amphitheater#
August 24 /// Madison, WI /// Breese Stevens Field#
August 26 /// Highland Park, IL /// The Pavilion at Ravinia#
August 29 /// Nashville, TN /// Bridgestone Arena^
September 1 /// Charlotte, NC /// Spectrum Center§
September 3 /// Duluth, GA /// Gas South Arena§
September 5 /// Fort Worth, TX /// Dickies Arena§
September 6 /// Austin, TX /// Moody Center§
September 11 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre||
September 12 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks
Amphitheatre|| (SOLD OUT)
September 13 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre||
September 17 /// Vancouver, BC /// Rogers Arena**
September 19 /// Stanford, CA /// Frost Amphitheater**
September 20 /// Santa Barbara, CA /// Santa Barbara
Bowl** (SOLD OUT)
September 22 /// San Diego, CA /// The Rady Shell
at Jacobs Park**
October 15 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena††
October 18 /// Manchester, U.K. /// Co-op Live††
October 19 /// Glasgow, U.K. /// OVO Hydro††
October 21 /// London, U.K. /// The O2††
October 23 /// Paris, France /// La Seine Musicale††
October 24 /// Zurich, Switzerland /// The Hall††
October 26 /// Dusseldorf, Germany /// Mitsubishi Electric Halle††
October 27 /// Amsterdam, Netherlands /// AFAS Live††
October 29 /// Oslo, Norway /// Spektrum††
October 30 /// Stockholm, Sweden /// Annexet††
November 1 /// Lisbon, Portugal /// Sagres Campo Pequeno††
January 14-18, 2027 /// Riviera Maya, Mexico /// Girls Just
Wanna Weekend 8
*with special guests Indigo Girls and I’m With Her
†with special guests Bonnie Raitt and Sara Bareilles
‡with The Highwomen, Sheryl Crow,
Wynonna Judd and Brittney Spencer
+with special guest Jensen McRae
#with special guest I’m With Her
^with special guest Gregory Alan Isakov
§with special guest The Head and The Heart
||with special guest Stephen Wilson Jr.
**with special guest CMAT
††with special guest KT Tunstall
‡‡An Acoustic Evening with Brandi Carlile