Brandi Carlile in Vancouver

Brandi Carlile is an American singer-songwriter, born in 1981 and raised in Washington state, who plays Americana, folk rock and country. Her best-known recordings include “The Story,” “The Joke” and “Right on Time,” while her major albums include By the Way, I Forgive You and In These Silent Days. The 2011 concert album Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony documented her orchestral live work. She established Girls Just Wanna Weekend in Mexico’s Riviera Maya in 2019, then took the Beyond These Silent Days Tour to Madison Square Garden in 2022. Carlile performs with a full band that includes her longtime collaborators, twin brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroth. Their vocal harmonies and guitar playing have been part of her recordings and concerts since her early career. Carlile has headlined Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver and brought her band to the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

CMAT is the stage name of Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, who was born in Dublin in 1996. Her country-pop songs pair conversational writing with large pop choruses; she is known for “I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!”, “Nashville” and the albums If My Wife New I’d Be Dead and Crazymad, for Me. During the 2023 touring cycle for Crazymad, for Me, CMAT headlined 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin. She headlined an outdoor show at Fairview Park in June 2024, then performed at Glastonbury Festival later that month.