Name: Brandi Carlile
Start: 2026-06-07T21:00:00
Location: College of Charleston

Brandi Carlile

Spoleto Festival USA

One of music’s most respected voices, Brandi Carlile is an Oscar-nominee, 11x Grammy-winner, 2x EMMY-winner and #1 New York Times Bestselling author. After pouring herself into projects with musical icons, Carlile is looking inward on her new album, Returning To Myself (Interscope Records/Lost Highway), produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. The album debuted at #7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, landed at #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts, and has been praised as “one of the best albums of the year” (Variety). The record follows Who Believes in Angels?, the universally praised collaborative album with her childhood hero Elton John, which debuted at #1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S., and is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the upcoming 68th Annual Grammy Awards. Carlile is also nominated for Best Song Written For Visual Media at next year’s awards for “Never Too Late,” a track written alongside Elton John, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt for the Disney+ documentary of the same name. In celebration of the new music, Carlile will return to the road next month with “The Human Tour,” including arena shows across North America, the U.K. and Europe. Upcoming stops include New York’s Madison Square Garden (two nights), Inglewood’s Kia Forum, Boston’s TD Garden and Minneapolis’ Target Center, among many others. Beloved by her peers, Carlile has worked with artists such as The Highwomen, Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, P!nk and Dolly Parton, was named OUT Magazine’s Icon of the Year, awarded Billboard’s Women In Music Trailblazer Award and NMPA’s Songwriter Icon Award as well as multiple awards from the Americana Music Association. Carlile is also a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $8M for grassroots causes to date and lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters.