Mary Chapin Carpenter Confirms 2018 Tour Dates, Tickets on Sale Friday

Mary Chapin Carpenter will embark on an extensive nationwide tour this summer including stops at Pittsburgh's Byham Theatre, Aspen's Belly Up, Durham's Carolina Theater and Charleston's Charleston Music Hall among many others. Tickets for the newly announced shows go on-sale this Friday, March 2 at 10:00am local time. See below for complete details.

These performances support Carpenter's highly anticipated new album, Sometimes Just The Sky, which will be released March 30 and is now available for pre-order (Lambent Light Records via Thirty Tigers). A celebration of her acclaimed 30-year recording career, the landmark record features new versions of some of Carpenter's most beloved songs as well as one newly written song, which became the title track.

Already receiving critical acclaim, the album's first single, "Heroes and Heroines" recently premiered at Billboard, who praises "...the new rendition features not only different flavors and textures created by the players but also a deeper meaning within the lyrics, which hold up 30 years later." Listen to and share the song HERE.

Produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Paul McCartney, Ray LaMontagne), the 13-track album was recorded entirely live at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios outside Bath, England. Joined by long-time collaborator Duke Levine on guitar and a handpicked band of Johns' favorite musicians, Carpenter reimagined one song from each of her twelve studio albums along with "Sometimes Just The Sky." See below for complete track list.

On the album title and newest song Carpenter says, "I read a beautiful interview with Patti Smith in which she said that you don't have to look far or wide, and it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive or madness in order to find things to soothe you in life, or to be happy about. Sometimes just the sky makes everything fall into perspective."

Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 14 million records. With hits like "Passionate Kisses" and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her," she has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is one of only fifteen female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Most recently, in 2016, Carpenter released The Things That We Are Made Of. Produced by Grammy Award winning producer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton), the album features eleven new songs and was released to overwhelming critical praise. The Associated Press called it, "...an evocative collection of songs," while The HuffPost declared, "...Carpenter is now at the height of her musical career, painting a compelling, relevant piece of art tinged with mixed feelings of grief and joy, all without preaching or darkening our minds with sadness."

Previously, in 2014, Carpenter released her acclaimed debut orchestral album, Songs From The Movie. Arranged and co-produced by six-time Grammy winner Vince Mendoza, the record is comprised of ten previously recorded compositions including "Between Here and Gone" and "Come On Come On." Since it's release, Carpenter has performed alongside the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, the L.A. Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra among many others.

SOMETIMES JUST THE SKY TRACK LIST:

1. Heroes and Heroines

2. What Does It Mean To Travel

3. I Have A Need For Solitude

4. One Small Heart

5. The Moon and St. Christopher

6. Superman

7. Naked To The Eye

8. Rhythm of the Blues

9. This is Love

10. Jericho

11. The Calling

12. This Shirt

13. Sometimes Just The Sky

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER CONFIRMED TOUR DATES

June 16-Lenox, MA-Tanglewood Performing Arts Center*

June 17-Pittsburgh, PA-Byham Theatre

June 18-Bloomington, IN-Buskirk Chumley Theater

June 20-Wichita, KS-Orpheum Theatre

June 21-Omaha, NE-Holland Performing Arts Center

June 22-Denver, CO-Denver Botanic Gardens

June 24-Aspen, CO-Belly Up

June 26-Sun Valley, ID-Sun Valley Resorts

July 12-Bayfield, WI-Lake Superior Big Top Chautaqua

July 15-Ann Arbor, MI-The Ark

July 16-Columbus, OH-Davidson Theatre

July 20-Portland, ME-State Theatre

July 21-22-Brownfield, ME-Stone Mountain Arts Center

July 25-Ridgefield, CT-Ridgefield Playhouse

August 1-Gettysburg, VA-The Majestic Theatre

August 2-Virginia Beach, VA-The Sandler Center For The Performing Arts

August 3-Durham, NC-Carolina Theatre

August 7-Charleston, SC-Charleston Music Hall

August 9-Chattanooga, TN-Walker Theater

August 11-Vienna, VA-Wolf Trap

*with David Crosby, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen

BOLD on-sale this Friday, March 2 at 10:00am local time

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