Article Contributed by Sacks and Company
Published on 2026-05-22
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP LAUNCHES
11x Grammy Award-winner Brandi Carlile’s new song, “Life On The Run,” is out today—listen/share HERE. Written with Aaron Dessner and produced by Carlile, Dessner, and Andrew Watt, the song finds Carlile turning inward with a renewed sense of discovery and adventure.
The release coincides with the launch of a new partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation—the nation’s most trusted way for people to support national parks—to raise critical funds to preserve and protect these cherished places across the country. Watch a new PSA featuring the song and Carlile HERE.
The partnership also includes collaboration with Carlile’s Looking Out Foundation, with $1 from each ticket sold at next weekend’s “Echoes Through the Canyon” at The Gorge Amphitheatre being donated to NPF. NPF representatives will also be on the ground to raise awareness throughout the three-day event—which will feature performances from Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, I’m With Her, Sara Bareilles, The Highwomen and more. For more information and to donate to the National Park Foundation, please visit NationalParks.org/Brandi.
“Our national parks are the heart and soul of our nation,” shares Carlile, “Even in our darkest days when we need a North Star, we need to look no further than the Olympic Peninsula, Yosemite, or the Canyonlands. The Gemini energy that pulls me back to the wild time and time again is something I’ve learned to embrace with music, and honestly every part of who I am. I’m not the only one. The wilderness calls on us all to return to ourselves, and the National Park Foundation reminds us that we have a shared duty to protect these sacred spaces. We all come from the lost and found…to the great unknown.”
An electric live performer, Carlile 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, All Things Go NYC on September 26, and All Things Go DC on September 27.
ABOUT BRANDI CARLILE
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, 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. In the midst of yet another monumental year, Carlile was 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 and kicked off her extensive “The Human Tour,” which consists of arena shows across North America, the U.K. and Europe, and is set to be inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame later this year. Beloved by her peers, Carlile has worked with artists such as 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 $9M for grassroots causes to date and lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters.
BRANDI CARLILE UPCOMING TOUR DATES
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‡‡ (SOLD OUT)
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‡‡ (SOLD OUT)
July 23—Montauk, NY—Montauk Point Lighthouse
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**
September 26—Forest Hills, NY—All Things Go NYC
September 27—Columbia, MD— All Things Go DC
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
