Michelle Branch Kicks Off Sold-Out 'Everywhere and Back Again' Tour; EP Out November 6

SEATTLE, OCTOBER 5, 2026 — Michelle Branch has officially taken “Everywhere and Back Again” on the road. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter opened her sold-out tour Sunday, Sept. 27, at Seattle’s Showbox with more than 25 years of songs packed into a career-spanning, 21-song, 90-minute-plus set — her first headline run behind the forthcoming EP of the same name, arriving Nov. 6 via BMG.

The 43-year-old is celebrating a quarter century in music by revisiting the songs that introduced her to the world — this time from the perspective of an artist who has lived inside them, with collaborators from across genres reimagining the originals. The EP’s confirmed tracks include a new duet version of “Goodbye to You” with Maren Morris and a reworked “The Game of Love” with New Radicals, produced by New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander.

A 21-song opening night

The Seattle set opened with “Drop in the Ocean” and moved through “Find Your Way Back” and “Breathe” before Branch treated the crowd to “With Every Heartbeat,” a new song she has played live but has yet to record. “The Game of Love” — her Grammy-winning Santana collaboration — got its new EP facelift live, and at one point Branch stepped onstage alone for a stripped-down acoustic portion that turned into a full-room singalong.

The back half was the catalog everyone came for: “Goodbye to You,” “Tuesday Morning,” “All You Wanted” and “Are You Happy Now?,” then a two-song encore of “Hopeless Romantic” into “Everywhere.” The show leaned hard on The Spirit Room (2001) and Hotel Paper — the records that made her — and played less like a nostalgia act than a reunion between an artist and the generation that grew up on her songs.

Old songs, new lives

The EP is the project’s real engine. “Goodbye to You,” originally from 2001’s The Spirit Room, becomes a duet between Branch and Morris — two singers approaching the song after their own careers and lives have changed around it. The collaboration was first revealed at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, when Branch made a surprise appearance during Morris’s 10th anniversary celebration of HERO and the two performed the new version publicly for the first time. The official music video adds another early-2000s connection, bringing Kristin Cavallari into the story.

“The Game of Love,” meanwhile, is credited to New Radicals and Michelle Branch and produced by Gregg Alexander — a full-circle move for a song that has defined both catalogs. More collaborators are still to be announced, with the EP’s full track list landing alongside its Nov. 6 release. For a catalog as durable as Branch’s — the kind of songwriting that ages into milestones, like “Jolene” just did on Spotify — the reimagining treatment feels less like a victory lap than a second draft she’s been waiting 25 years to write.

Sold out in a week

The fall run sold out nationwide within a week of its announcement, leaving thousands of fans in queues and on waitlists — and the demand prompted Branch to add a second leg for 2027. That leg begins Feb. 25, 2027, at Charleston Music Hall in South Carolina and runs through March 27 at Philadelphia’s Franklin Music Hall, hitting Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis and New York along the way, with venue calendars already adding second nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom.

There’s a cause attached, too: Branch has partnered with PLUS1, so one dollar from every ticket sold benefits the ALS Association’s research and care work.

The week ahead

The tour’s October swing is already underway: Portland’s Crystal Ballroom (Sept. 29), two nights at San Francisco’s The Castro (Oct. 1–2), the Wiltern in Los Angeles (Oct. 3) and The Sound in Del Mar (Oct. 4) are in the rearview. Still to come this week: San Luis Obispo’s Fremont Theater tonight (Oct. 6), Salt Lake City’s The Complex (Oct. 8), Las Vegas’ Zouk (Oct. 9) — another big week for Vegas music, Aspen’s Belly Up (Oct. 10) and the Boulder Theater (Oct. 11).

November brings the home stretch of the fall leg — Boston’s Roadrunner (Nov. 4), New York’s Beacon Theatre (Nov. 5) and Asbury Park’s Stone Pony (Nov. 6), the EP’s release day — before the run continues through Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Lexington. With primary box offices sold out, secondary platforms like StubHub and Vivid Seats remain the way in. For the week’s other new music, see this week’s album releases and the weekly music roundup — and the weekend in music for where the charts landed.