Carrie Underwood does not turn up in the Berkshires every August, and the fact that she is turning up at all in 2026 is the news. One of country music’s most commercially dominant voices is making her Tanglewood debut — stepping into the Koussevitzky Music Shed, a stage far more accustomed to symphonies than to stadium-scale country. That contrast is exactly what makes this one worth the drive to Lenox.
Underwood arrives as part of Tanglewood’s 2026 Popular Artist Series, the summer programming strand that pulls big names into the BSO’s storied campus alongside the classical calendar. It is a setting that rewards the attentive listener, and Underwood has the catalog to fill it — songs built for arenas that hold up just fine when the room leans in.
About Carrie Underwood
The résumé is genuinely enormous. Eight Grammy Awards, beginning with Best New Artist and a country vocal trophy for “Jesus, Take the Wheel” back in 2006 and running through 2022’s Best Roots Gospel Album win for My Savior. Twenty-nine number-one singles, fourteen of which she co-wrote. She is the highest RIAA-certified female country artist of all time, with north of 95 million units moved in the U.S. alone.
The hits are part of the modern country canon at this point — “Before He Cheats,” “Blown Away,” “Something in the Water,” “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” Her live show is a full production: a band that plays to scale, a voice that needs no help from the mix, and the kind of presence that translates from the arena down to a venue that asks for closer listening.
Venue Info
Tanglewood is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, set across a green campus in Lenox, Massachusetts, deep in the Berkshires. The Koussevitzky Music Shed is the marquee stage here, and a late-August headliner like Underwood effectively closes out the season — one of the last great nights of the Berkshire summer before the lawn chairs get folded up for the year. Read more on our Tanglewood venue guide.
Tickets & Details
Carrie Underwood plays Tanglewood on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets start around $84.
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