Carrie Underwood Joins the 2026 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series

Tanglewood is pleased to announce that multi-platinum superstar and eight-time GRAMMY® award winner Carrie Underwood will perform at the venue on Saturday, August 29 at 7 p.m. The concert will be Underwood’s first appearance at the famed Tanglewood Music Festival. Tickets go on sale on Friday, December 12 at 10 a.m. 

Underwood is the highest RIAA certified female country artist of all time and is the only woman to have won the Academy of Country Music Award’s Entertainer of the Year three times. A successful entrepreneur and author in addition to her impressive musical achievements, she will make her Tanglewood debut following her second season as a judge on the upcoming season of American Idol, the show that helped make her a household name when she won in 2005.

Underwood’s performance is part of Tanglewood’s annual Popular Artist series, which this summer also brings “Weird Al” Yankovic (July 21) and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to the Koussevitzky Music Shed (July 28). Additional performers in the series may be announced throughout the winter and spring.  

A full schedule of the 2026 Tanglewood summer season, including concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center fellows, will be announced in late January 2026 and tickets will be available in early March.  

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