Rocker Melissa Etheridge will have a new album in hand when she returns May 3, 2026, to Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.
The 7:30 p.m. performance will be Etheridge’s fourth at the Payne & Mencias Palladium and the first since 2018. Tickets starting at $55 will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 24, online at TheCenterPresents.org, by phone at (317) 843-3800, or in person at the Payne & Mencias Palladium’s Fifth Third Bank Box Office, 1 Carter Green, Carmel. The event is part of the Printing Partners Encore Series and the Center Presents Season sponsored by Allied Solutions.
Known for her confessional songwriting and gritty vocals, Etheridge is touring to support her upcoming album, RISE, due early next year on Sun Records. The first single, “Don’t You Want a Woman,” was released this month.
Since her explosive 1988 debut, Etheridge has delivered hit after hit (“Come to My Window,” “I’m the Only One,” “I Want to Come Over”) while winning two Grammy Awards and even an Academy Award, for “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth. Other recent projects have included the acclaimed Broadway show My Window and the powerful documentary I’m Not Broken, recorded at Topeka Correctional Facility.