Brandi Carlile is an Oscar-nominated and 11x GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, and producer; 2x EMMY Award-winning composer, lyricist, and writer; #1 New York Times Bestselling author, and activist, who is known as one of music’s most respected voices.

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Brandi Carlile

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Folk’s modern muse Jensen McRae has revealed the release date for her highly anticipated sophomore album, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!, scheduled to drop on April 25 via Dead Oceans.

Jensen McRae

The Chapel San Francisco

"The most profound choices of my life,” she says, “have often felt like things I did before I was ready to do, and I had to grow into them.” McRae’s songs have a way of giving shape to these leaps, cliff jumps and trust falls, and on her new album, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!, Jensen McRae goes further than ever, evolving from a promising young artist to a fully grown songwriter and star. “It’s about realizing what you can’t outrun, and what follows when you have withstood what you thought might crush you,” she explains. “There are things that can happen to us—unthinkable, untenable things—that threaten our safety in our own bodies. They happen, and you feel like the only option is escape. In truth, the only way out is in—back into the place you have always lived.” The home – with Jensen front-and-center, possibly leaving, possibly arriving – adorns the artwork for I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!”. “You can leave the city, you can leave the lover,” McRae continues, “but you can never leave yourself.”

The Atrium

McRae’s songs give shape to life’s most profound choices. “You can leave the city, you can leave the lover, but you can never leave yourself,” she says. The emotionally crushing, expertly written folk songs on her latest release, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!, explore the ways that we’re shaped by both love and its loss. You can hear the effects of both in her exceptional, acrobatic voice. Wispy and textured at times, clear and bright at others, her singing is as surprising and rich with meaning as her lyrics. It’s no wonder Pitchfork said she “seems to chew on each phrase that passes her lips, savoring it, making it sound irresistible.” The LA-based singer-songwriter brings her razor-sharp lyrics and timeless pop melodies to the Hall for her debut.

Jensen McRae

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Mar 6, 2027

Jensen McRae · Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Aug 16, 2026

Brandi Carlile · Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

May 27, 2025

Jensen McRae · The Chapel

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