Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to Perform on July 28 at Tanglewood as Part of the Venue’s 2026 Popular Artist Series

Tanglewood is pleased to announce that six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will perform on July 28, 2026, as part of this summer’s Popular Artist Series, which each year brings a star-studded lineup of musicians and performers to the venue’s Koussevitzky Music Shed in the Berkshires. They are joined by special guest Patty Griffin, with both artists making their Tanglewood debuts. The concert starts at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale on Friday, October 31 at 10 a.m. 

A full schedule of the 2026 Tanglewood summer season, including concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center fellows, will be announced in late January 2026 and tickets will be available in early March. Additions to the 2026 Popular Artist Series may be announced throughout the winter and spring.  

About Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter Jason Isbell is one of the most respected and celebrated artists of his generation. The North Alabama native possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, and turning them into beautiful poetry through song. Isbell sings of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty.  

After releasing multiple critically acclaimed albums, appearing in an Academy Award-nominated film, Killers of the Flower Moon, and touring the world with his band, the 400 Unit, Isbell began 2025 with a change of pace: a solo record, Foxes in the Snow. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, with just Isbell’s voice and an acoustic guitar, Foxes in the Snow further demonstrates his pure talent as a songwriter and musician. As Stereogum so aptly put it, "the barebones intimacy recenters the artist behind the persona and serves as a reminder that this guy can write a damn song." 

About Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over two decades, the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winner and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement award winner, has crafted a remarkable body of work in progress that prompted The New York Times to hail her for “[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people…[her] songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.” 

Griffin’s new album, Crown of Roses, is a deeply personal and introspective work that explores themes of identity, nature, family, and womanhood. Emerging from a creative drought during the pandemic, Griffin found herself re-evaluating the stories she’d long told herself. The result is an eight-track collection that is both sparse and emotionally rich, blending folk, Americana, and blues. With Crown of Roses, Griffin offers a record that’s both grounded and transcendent — one that invites listeners to release old narratives, embrace new truths, and stay truly alive while they’re here.