Kate Yeager brings her post-"Fat" songbook to the Green Door on March 2

The Nashville-based songwriter behind a 2023 viral hit plays Lansing's Green Door on Tuesday, March 2, 2027, for $15.

There's a certain kind of Tuesday in early March in Lansing when the snowbanks have gone gray and everyone is ready for something to feel good again. Kate Yeager just booked one at the Green Door.

Kate Yeager plays the Green Door on Tuesday, March 2, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 through Prekindle. The date was announced Oct. 30. Yeager usually headlines rooms of about 250, so this is a show sized for her audience, which means it's the kind that can sell out quietly while you're still thinking about it.

If the name rings a bell, it may be because of "Fat," Yeager's 2023 track that went viral and introduced her to a lot of new listeners, as Echoes and Dust noted in its review of her follow-up. That follow-up is *Before the Lights Go Out*, a self-released 2024 album that showed there was a lot more to her than one moment online.

Yeager describes herself as a queer, New York-born, Nashville-based independent singer-songwriter, per her bio on Passim. She's been at this a while: back in 2016, as an NYU sophomore, she debuted an EP at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, the NYU student paper reported. The years since have taken her through rooms like Boston-area folk institution Passim and Minneapolis' First Avenue.

Her songs are about learning to be a little kinder to yourself, which in early March is exactly the right message.

What comes through in her interviews is a songwriter who writes about self-acceptance without getting preachy. Melodic Magazine headlined its conversation with her "Kate Yeager tells us how to love ourselves a little more," which is about as good a summary of her catalog as you'll find. She's also talked openly about the work of building a career after a viral hit, on the Bedroom Studios podcast, which is a useful listen if you want to know who you're going to see.

The Green Door is a good match for a show like this: a small room, a $15 ticket and a weeknight crowd that came to listen. It's the kind of setting where a songwriter's between-song stories land as well as the songs.

What to know: Tuesday, 8 p.m., $15. If you only know "Fat," spend some time with *Before the Lights Go Out* before the show, so you can sing along to more than the one song everybody knows.

Get your ticket now, and bring the friend who could use the reminder.

Sources: Before the Lights Go Out by Kate Yeager (Echoes and Dust) (echoesanddust.com); Kate Yeager (Passim) (passim.org); Sophomore Premieres EP at Bitter End Residency (NYU News) (nyunews.com); Kate Yeager (First Avenue) (first-avenue.com); Kate Yeager tells us how to love ourselves a little more (Melodic Magazine) (melodicmag.com); Bedroom Studios Podcast: Kate Yeager, Building Your Music Career After Viral Success (music.amazon.com.br); Kate Yeager at The Green Door (Prekindle) (prekindle.com); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)