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Melissa Etheridge<\/a> will return to the road in 2027, beginning in March. She revealed a hefty stack of tour dates today.<\/p>\n Her Rise Again outing will launch with two nights in Vashon, Washington starting Mar. 20. The singer-songwriter will then play a run of Canadian dates before returning to the States April 1 in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n The first leg of concerts for the new year is presently scheduled to wrap up in late April with Etheridge’s appearance at the annual Stagecoach Festival<\/a> in Indio, California. She’s set to perform on April 25, the closing day for the annual fest. That day’s bill will also feature David Lee Roth<\/a>, Matchbox Twenty<\/a>, Kelly Clarkson<\/a>, Pitbull<\/a> and many others.<\/p>\n Tickets for her tour will go on sale Friday (Nov. 13) at 10am local time. Fans can purchase tickets via her official website<\/a> and you can see all of the current dates below. More concerts are expected to be announced.<\/p>\n Nominated<\/a> for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s<\/a> 2026 class, though she didn’t get in, Etheridge released Rise<\/em>, one of her most personal records to date, earlier this year. During a conversation with UCR<\/a> in March, she shared where her head was at while she was working on the LP.<\/p>\n “The intention\u00a0for this album was I wanted it to sonically attract people. I wanted it to be the album that you can take that 45-minute drive you’ve got to take,” she explained. “You’re starting with the first song, and you turn it up a little and you turn it up a little more because it just sounds so good in your car. That’s what those songs are.”<\/p>\n “The song intros and everything, I just wanted it to be [like when] I drove out to California from Kansas,” she continued. “I had tapes of the Eagles<\/a>, Fleetwood Mac <\/a>and even Tom Petty<\/a>, just this, California sort of rock and roll. I was working with Shooter Jennings [on the] production and I said, ‘This is the sound I want.”‘ I wanted it to sound like those good, rich, yummy, songs you can sit in the middle of and hear the guitar being played and hear everything.”<\/p>\nListen to Melissa Etheridge’s ‘Matches’<\/h3>\n
How Melissa’s Latest Album Was Inspired by Tom Petty<\/h3>\n