AN EVENING WITH BRANDI CARLILE
AS SHE PERFORMS JONI MITCHELL’S
LEGENDARY ALBUM BLUE
CONFIRMED AT CARNEGIE HALL
NOVEMBER 6
AS SHE PERFORMS JONI MITCHELL’S
LEGENDARY ALBUM BLUE
CONFIRMED AT CARNEGIE HALL
NOVEMBER 6
TICKETS ON SALE THIS THURSDAY
Brandi Carlile will return to the stage to perform Joni Mitchell’s legendary album Blue in full on November 6 at Carnegie Hall. Tickets for the tribute concert will be available early for fan club members starting tomorrow at 11:00am ET followed by public pre-sale on Wednesday at 11:00am ET and general on-sale on Thursday at 11:00am ET.
This is Carlile’s second time tributing Blue following the program’s October 2019 debut at Los Angeles’ Disney Hall. Performed in front of an audience that included Mitchell herself, Variety declared, “a set of 10 confessional songs that, by acclimation, is one of the landmark albums of the previous century, brought back to life by the best pure singer we’ve had in this one” and went on to proclaim, “Confession and conversation finally gave into the high, wordless aria that closes ‘The Last Time I Saw Richard,’ which may have left the crowd tattooed for some time to come with the thought of the last time they saw nirvana.”
The performance is yet another landmark milestone for the six-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, producer and New York Times Best Selling author, whose highly anticipated new album, In These Silent Days, will be released October 1 on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records (pre-order/pre-save). Ahead of the release, the album’s first single, “Right On Time,” featuring a music video directed by Courteney Cox, recently premiered. Watch/share HERE.
Of the album, Carlile shares,
“Never before have the twins and I written an album during a time of such uncertainty and quiet solitude. I never imagined that I’d feel so exposed and weird as an artist without the armor of a costume, the thrill of an applause and the platform of the sacred stage.
Despite all this, the songs flowed through—pure and unperformed, loud and proud, joyful and mournful. Written in my barn during a time of deep and personal reckoning.
There’s plenty reflection…but mostly it’s a celebration.
This album is what drama mixed with joy sounds like. It’s resistance and gratitude, righteous anger and radical forgiveness.
It’s the sound of these silent days.”
Released to widespread acclaim, Carlile recently debuted the song on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” with NPR Music praising, “Just when we needed her, Brandi Carlile returns,” while Billboard calls the single, “gorgeous,” Stereogum declares, “tremendous,” Rolling Stone asserts, “cathartic” and Variety proclaims, “there’s no more anticipated album this year than the one Carlile has coming this fall.”
Photo credit: Neil Krug // album artwork
Inspired by the mining of her own history while writing this year’s #1 New York Times Best Selling memoir Broken Horses (Crown), In These Silent Days was conceived of while Carlile was quarantined at home with longtime collaborators and bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth. The ten songs chronicle acceptance, faith, loss and love and channel icons like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Elton John and Joni Mitchell—the latter two who, by some sort of cosmic alignment of the stars, have turned out to be close friends in addition to being her biggest heroes and inspirations.
Recorded once again at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, the album features Carlile (vocals, guitar, piano), Tim Hanseroth (vocals, bass), Phil Hanseroth (vocals, guitar), Cobb (guitar, percussion) and Jennings (piano, organ, synth) as well as Chris Powell (drums, percussion), Josh Neumann (strings) and special guests Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius on backing vocals on the track “You And Me On The Rock.”
In addition to the Carnegie Hall show, Carlile will perform select headline shows this year including an upcoming concert at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre on August 14, which will be simultaneously livestreamed via Veeps (tickets available here). Moreover, her “Girls Just Wanna Weekend” festival will return to the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico February 1-5, 2022. The sold-out vacation destination event will once again feature an all-female-fronted lineup including performances by Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Tanya Tucker, Indigo Girls, Lucius, Margo Price, Yola, KT Tunstall, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Katie Pruitt as well as special guests. See below for complete tour itinerary. Additional dates to be announced.
In These Silent Days follows Carlile’s 2018 breakthrough GRAMMY Award-winning album, By The Way, I Forgive You, which Rolling Stone declared, “…an Adele-meets Joni Mitchell tour de force.” In the years since—in addition tocollaborative projects with The Highwomen, Tanya Tucker, Soundgarden, Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb, Leslie Jordan, Brandy Clark and more—she has earned six Grammy Awards recognizing her work as a performer, songwriter and producer, was awarded Billboard’s Women In Music “Trailblazer Award,” CMT’s Next Women of Country “Impact Award” and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association Honors & Awards including 2020’s Album of the Year (Highwomen), Group of the Year (The Highwomen) and Song of the Year (“Crowded Table”) and 2019’s Artist of the Year. Carlile is also once again nominated for Artist of the Year and Group of the Year (The Highwomen) at the 2021 ceremony, to be held in September.
In addition to their work as a band, Carlile and the Hanseroth twins remain committed to social activism and advocacy. Together they are founders of the Looking Out Foundation, which amplifies the impact of music by empowering those without a voice with varied initiatives including campaigns focused on Children in Conflict/War Child, The IF Project, Fund Racial Justice and more. To date, they have raised over $2 million for grassroots causes.
IN THESE SILENT DAYS TRACKLIST
1. Right On Time
2. You And Me On The Rock
3. This Time Tomorrow
4. Broken Horses
5. Letter To The Past
6. Mama Werewolf
7. When You’re Wrong
8. Stay Gentle
9. Sinners Saints And Fools
10.Throwing Good After Bad
BRANDI CARLILE CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
August 14—Quincy, WA—Gorge Amphitheatre
August 20—Portland, ME—Thompson’s Point
August 21—Lenox, MA—Koussevitzky Music Shed
August 28—Vienna, VA—Wolf Trap Center for Performing Arts
September 3—Napa County, CA—BottleRock Napa Valley 2021
September 4—Bend, OR—Les Schwab Amphitheater
September 5—Bend, OR—Les Schwab Amphitheater
September 11—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Colorado Symphony
September 12—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Colorado Symphony
September 25—Columbia, MO—Roots N Blues Festival
September 26—Dana Point, CA—Ohana Fest 2021
October 2—Dana Point, CA—Ohana Encore 2021
October 21—Miramar Beach, FL—Moon Crush
November 6—New York, NY—Carnegie Hall
February 1-5, 2022—Riviera Maya, Mexico—Girls Just Wanna Weekend (SOLD OUT)
April 29, 2022—Indio, CA—Stagecoach Music Festival
