Brandi Carlile
Location: OVO Hydro
Brandi Carlile is a trailblazing voice in contemporary country music. Coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 19th October 2026.
11x GRAMMY Award-winner Brandi Carlile will return to the road next year with The Human Tour including arena shows throughout the UK.
Newly confirmed stops include Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, Manchester’s Co-op Live and London’s The O2.
The upcoming tour celebrates Carlile’s highly anticipated new album, Returning To Myself, out October 24 via Interscope Records/Lost Highway. Her eighth studio album and first solo project in four years, Returning To Myself finds Carlile looking inward, reflecting backward, and ultimately, returning home after spending the last few years pouring herself into collaborations with musical icons and legends. Produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon, the album features ten songs, including ‘Human’, ‘Church & State(Opens in new tab)‘, ‘A War With Time(Opens in new tab)‘ and the title track(Opens in new tab).
In addition to Carlile, Watt, Dessner and Vernon, the album features her longtime bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth and SistaStrings (Monique and Chauntee Ross) as well as Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham and Stewart Cole.
Carlile is an Oscar-nominated and 11x GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer and producer, 2x EMMY Award-winning composer, lyricist and writer, No.1 New York Times Bestselling author and activist, who is known as one of music’s most respected voices. Throughout her acclaimed career, Carlile has released eight studio albums including her most recent, Who Believes in Angels? – the universally critically acclaimed collaborative album with her childhood hero, Elton John – which debuted at No. 1 in the UK and top 10 in the U.S.
A renowned producer
Additionally, Carlile continues her work as a renowned producer with recent GRAMMY Award-winning projects from Joni Mitchell and Brandy Clark. She also produced and recorded a rendition of Indigo Girls’ ‘Closer To Fine’ with her wife, Catherine, which was included on Barbie The Album as well as a version of ‘Home’ which was featured in the final season of Ted Lasso. She received her first Oscar nomination in the Original Song category in January 2025 for ‘Never Too Late’, a track written alongside Elton John, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt for the Disney+ documentary of the same name, on Elton’s life and career.
Beloved by her peers, Carlile has collaborated with artists such as The Highwomen, Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, Jacob Collier, P!nk and Dolly Parton. Carlile was named OUT Magazine’s 2023 Icon of the Year, awarded Billboard’s Women In Music Trailblazer Award, CMT’s Next Women of Country Impact Award and NMPA’s 2023 Songwriter Icon Award and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association.
On top of being a musician and writer, Carlile is a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $8 million for grassroots causes to date. Carlile lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah.
