Caroline Rose returns to Higher Ground on March 20 with a new album in tow

Four years after back-to-back Ballroom nights, Rose brings Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall to Burlington on a Saturday in March.

Caroline Rose's last trip to Burlington was a two-night stand at Higher Ground's Ballroom in April 2023, on April 4 and 5, touring *The Art of Forgetting*. They'll be back in the same room on Saturday, March 20, 2027, at 7 p.m.

Tickets are through Higher Ground. The Ballroom holds about 650, which for Rose has become the right-size room in this town.

It's taken a while to get there. Burlington has been seeing Rose for most of their career: an April 7, 2018, show in the Showcase Lounge, with Vermont's Henry Jamison opening, which Seven Days flagged when *Loner* came out; a Ballroom date on March 7, 2020, per JamBase, just as touring was about to stop; and then the two 2023 nights. Each visit has come with a different record and a different version of the artist.

This one comes with *Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall*, out Oct. 23, 2026, on SUCK Records. Dork reported that the tour was announced alongside the album's final preview single, "Valery (please don't be mad at me)," while Rose was finishing a supporting run with Modest Mouse.

Burlington has caught every version of Caroline Rose so far.

What has changed since 2023? *The Art of Forgetting*, released by New West Records in March 2023, was a more personal, reflective record, as WXPN noted around the release. *Gentling the Horse* arrives on a different label with a different set of songs, and the 2027 tour is a full headline run. According to Exclaim!, it opens Feb. 26 at Felton Music Hall in California and runs into May, with Canadian dates in March, Noise Pop in San Francisco and Treefort in Boise along the way. Burlington falls in the middle of the eastern swing.

What to expect: new songs, since the record will be five months old by then, alongside older ones.

Tickets: the tour went on general sale Oct. 23. If the 2023 shows needed two nights, March 20 is worth buying early.

Five visits in nine years. Burlington keeps showing up for Caroline Rose, and they keep coming back.

Sources: Higher Ground (highergroundmusic.com); Dork: Caroline Rose has announced a 2027 North American headline tour (readdork.com); Exclaim!: Caroline Rose schedules headlining North American tour (exclaim.ca); Seven Days: NPR premieres Caroline Rose's new album 'Loner' (community.sevendaysvt.com); WXPN: Caroline Rose, 'Miami', The Art of Forgetting (xpn.org); JamBase: Caroline Rose at Higher Ground Ballroom, Mar 7, 2020 (jambase.com); JamBase: Caroline Rose at Higher Ground Ballroom, Apr 4, 2023 (jambase.com); JamBase: Caroline Rose at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, Apr 7, 2018 (jambase.com); JamBase: Caroline Rose at Higher Ground Ballroom, Mar 20, 2027 (jambase.com)