Martina McBride’s fall 2026 touring calendar is a deliberately short one — five dates across September and October, positioned more as selective engagements than the grind of a full circuit. The September 25 date at Turning Stone’s Event Center in Verona fits that framework. McBride has long operated in the space where reputation does the heavy lifting: she doesn’t need a stadium run to command a room, and a 5,000-seat casino venue in Central New York is precisely the kind of focused engagement her current touring model supports.
About Martina McBride
Born in Kansas, McBride arrived in Nashville in 1990 under circumstances that remain one of country music’s better origin stories — selling merchandise on Garth Brooks’ tour while her husband John worked his sound crew, before eventually securing a deal with RCA Nashville in 1991. What followed was one of the defining careers in 1990s country: “Independence Day,” “A Broken Wing,” “Wrong Again,” and “This One’s for the Girls” are not catalog curiosities but songs that still carry their original emotional weight, built on a voice that has always been among the most technically assured in the genre.
The credentials are significant. She claimed the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award four times — a total that places her alongside Reba McEntire and Miranda Lambert in that particular conversation — and added three ACM Top Female Vocalist honors as well. The ACM presented her with an Honorary Award in 2011. She was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, which functions as country music’s most durable institutional endorsement. Her advocacy work — she has served as a spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and related organizations — has lent her catalog a dimension beyond chart performance; “Independence Day” was always a statement song, and she has treated it accordingly across more than thirty years of performing it.
Expect a set drawn from across the catalog’s full depth: the signature anthems alongside material from more than two decades of studio albums.
Venue
Turning Stone Event Center — the 5,000-seat room at Turning Stone Resort Casino on Patrick Road in Verona — occupies a useful middle ground in the Central New York entertainment landscape. Large enough to book substantive headliners, configured well enough to keep the experience from feeling diffuse, and backed by the full casino-resort infrastructure that makes it a straightforward destination for audiences traveling in from across the region.
Tickets
Presale access opens Thursday, May 7, 2026 for Turning Stone Rewards members. General public tickets go on sale Friday, May 8 at 10 AM via Ticketmaster.