Fort Worth: Brandi Carlile at Dickies Arena

Brandi Carlile brings The Human Tour to Dickies Arena in Fort Worth on Saturday, September 5, with The Head and the Heart opening the night. Tickets start at $54, and doors open early enough for a full evening under the arena’s signature 360-degree screen.

Carlile has spent the last decade becoming one of Americana’s most decorated voices — a nine-time Grammy winner whose albums “By the Way, I Forgive You” and “In These Silent Days” turned confessional folk-rock into arena-sized songwriting. She co-founded the country supergroup The Highwomen with Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby, produced Tanya Tucker’s Grammy-winning comeback record “While I’m Livin’,” and has become a recurring collaborator and advocate for Joni Mitchell’s return to the stage after Mitchell’s 2015 aneurysm. Her live shows lean on a full band built around twin-guitar interplay with longtime collaborators Phil and Tim Hanseroth, and rarely leaves a Texas date without at least one unaccompanied, arena-quieting ballad.

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Dickies Arena anchors the Will Rogers Memorial Center campus in Fort Worth’s Cultural District, a 14,000-seat concert bowl that opened in 2019 and has quickly become North Texas’s newest arena-tour stop. Architect David M. Schwarz gave the building a limestone-and-brick exterior that nods to the historic Cowtown Coliseum next door, while the interior centers on a 360-degree video screen built from nearly 1.2 million LEDs, one of the largest continuous screens of its kind in North America. The arena is best known locally as the new home of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, which has filled the building every January since 2020, but its concert calendar runs just as heavy the rest of the year. Learn more about the room on its Texas Music Map venue page. Parking surrounds the venue at the broader Will Rogers complex, and doors typically open 90 minutes to two hours ahead of a scheduled set time.

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Opener The Head and the Heart, the Seattle indie-folk band behind “Rivendell” and “Lost in My Mind,” has toured alongside Carlile before and shares her taste for close vocal harmony over a full-band arrangement — expect a night built around voices more than volume.

Doors typically open around 6 PM for a 7 PM start; the arena sits on the Will Rogers Memorial Center campus with ample surrounding parking, and rideshare pickup is well marked near the main entrance after the show.