There is a particular moment in Carly Pearce’s songwriting where the production strips away and leaves her voice alone with the lyric — and you hear it, that small crack at the end of a phrase, the one that sounds like an admission rather than a performance. She has been honing that quality since she was eleven years old with a guitar, since she was sixteen and working at Dollywood, learning what it meant to hold a room through honest song. On Saturday, August 15, she brings the 2026 Hummingbird World Tour to the Paramount Theatre in Rutland, Vermont, at 7:00 PM.
About Carly Pearce
Pearce’s fourth studio album, hummingbird, is the kind of record that country music occasionally produces when a songwriter stops trying to write for radio and starts writing for the truth. Co-writing and co-producing nearly all of its tracks, Pearce called on fiddle, dobro, and lap steel — instruments that anchor her bluegrass heritage — while building something that sounds both like it belongs to a specific lineage and completely of its moment. The Chris Stapleton duet “we don’t fight anymore” is the record’s quiet anchor: two voices that carry earned weight, leaning into a lyric about the particular silence that settles before the end. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance — spend three minutes with the track and you’ll hear why. A three-time CMA Award winner and four-time ACM Award winner, Pearce also holds a Grand Ole Opry membership, credentials that mean more as markers of craft than of prestige.
Her current single, “If I Don’t Leave I’m Gonna Stay,” featuring Riley Green, suggests she is not finished finding new angles on the emotional territory she has claimed. This is a songwriter who improves.
About the Venue
The Paramount Theatre is Rutland’s 838-seat historic theater — a room with the dimensions to make a country voice work properly. Not so large that intimacy evaporates, not so small that the dynamics get cramped. For a performer who does her best work when the room is paying close attention, it is a reasonable match.
Tickets & Pricing
Show time is 7:00 PM on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Tickets are priced at $55, $65, $85, $100, and $125, plus applicable taxes and fees. The Paramount’s official site at paramountvt.org is the only authorized outlet — third-party resellers charge significantly more. For more shows in the area, see our capital region concert listings.