Mary Chapin Carpenter confirms summer headline tour

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Mary Chapin Carpenter will embark on an extensive headline tour this summer with shows at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, Denver’s Botanic Gardens, Minneapolis’ Pantages Theater, Boston’s The Wilbur, Charlotte’s Knight Center, and Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium among many others. Carpenter will also perform select co-headline dates with Emmylou Harris this summer including stops at Charlottesville’s Sprint Pavilion, Vienna’s Wolf Trap, and Chicago’s Ravinia Theater. See below for complete itinerary. Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday, March 11 at 10:00 am local time. Details can be found at www.marychapincarpenter.com/tour.

The upcoming performances add to yet another notable year for Carpenter, who is nominated for Best Folk Album at the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards for her record, One Night Lonely (Live). A rare solo performance, One Night Lonely (Live) was recorded in November of 2020 at Carpenter’s favorite venue, Virginia’s legendary Wolf Trap, and features songs from across her acclaimed career including several from her latest studio album, The Dirt And The Stars. A DVD of the live concert, which premiered at PBS earlier this summer, is also now available. Additionally, during the pandemic shut down, Carpenter stayed connected with fans by sharing “Songs From Home,” a virtual concert series that has been viewed over 10 million times, and subsequently released as an accompanying coffee table book.

Reflecting on One Night Lonely (Live), Carpenter shares, “Strange yet magical, those are my words to describe the feeling of being alone on this hometown stage at Wolf Trap. I was struck by the stillness of the empty seats and the lonely echo of all this space. While I missed seeing the audience and feeling that connection, I was so grateful for the opportunity to play a show during the pandemic shut down.”

Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 15 million records. With hits like “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” she has won five Grammy Awards (with 16 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is one of only fifteen female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

ONE NIGHT LONELY TRACK LIST
1. The Age of Miracles
2. Chasing What’s Already Gone
3. Farther Along and Further In
4. Sometimes Just The Sky
5. I Have A Need For Solitude
6. Something Tamed, Something Wild
7. Houston
8. I Take My Chances
9. Grand Central Station
10. All Broken Hearts Break Differently
11. This Shirt
12. I Am A Town
13. Stones In The Road
14. Heroes And Heroines
15. Old D-35
16. This Is Love
17. John Doe No. 24
18. Don’t Need Much To Be Happy
19. He Thinks He’ll Keep Her
20. Why Shouldn’t We
21. Twilight
22. Late For Your Life
23. The Hard Way
24. Between The Dirt And The Stars
25. The Things That We Are Made Of
26. Traveler’s Prayer

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER CONFIRMED TOUR DATES

June 8 – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts – Santa Rosa, CA
June 9 – Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA
June 10 – Golden State Theater – Monterey, CA
June 12 – Freemont Theater – San Luis Obispo, CA
June 14 – The Magnolia – El Cajon, CA
June 15 – Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts – Scottsdale, AZ
June 16 – Rialto Theater – Tucson, AZ
June 18 – Lobrero Theater – Santa Barbara, CA
June 20 – Venue TBA – Los Angeles, CA
June 21 – Center for the Arts – Grass Valley, CA
June 23 – Hult Center – Eugene, OR
June 24 – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR
June 25 – Moore Theater – Seattle, WA
July 6 – Venue TBA – Salt Lake City, UT
July 7 – Denver Botanic Gardens – Denver, CO
July 8 – Pikes Peak Performing Arts Center – Colorado Springs, CO
July 9 – Riverwalk Center – Breckenridge, CO
July 13 – Pantages Theater – Minneapolis, MN
July 14 – Big Top Chautauqua – Bayfield, WI
July 15 – Englert Theater – Iowa City, IA
July 16 – Virginia Theater – Champaign, IL
July 17 – Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
July 19 – Memorial Hall – Cincinnati, OH
July 21 – Davidson Theater – Columbus, OH
July 22 – The Amphitheater at Dant Crossing – New Haven, KY
Aug. 9 – Stone Mountain Arts Center – Brownfield, ME
Aug. 10 – Stone Mountain Arts Center – Brownfield, ME
Aug. 11 – Payomet Performing Arts Center – North Truro, MA
Aug. 12 – The Wilbur – Boston, MA
Aug. 13 – The Pines – Northampton, MA
Aug. 14 – State Theatre – Portland, Me
Aug. 16 – The Miller Center – Reading, PA
Aug. 17 – Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham, NC
Aug. 19 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN
Aug. 20 – Knight Center – Charlotte, NC
Aug. 21 – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater – Wilmington, NC
Aug. 23 – Sprint Pavilion – Charlottesville, VA*
Aug. 24 – Smith Opera House – Geneva, NY
Aug. 25 – Chautauqua Institution – Chautauqua, NY*
Aug. 26 – Ridgefield Playhouse – Ridgefield, CT
Aug. 27 – Wolf Trap – Vienna, VA*
Aug. 30 – Longwood Gardens – Kennet Square, PA*
Sept. 2 – Ravinia Theater – Chicago, IL*