Brandi Carlile brings 'Burn the Setlist' to the Paramount on Jan. 5

The all-request show — no fixed setlist, phones in pouches, the Hanseroth twins at her side — lands at Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027.

Imagine a Brandi Carlile show where nobody, including Brandi Carlile, knows what's coming next. That's the idea behind Burn the Setlist, and it's coming to the Paramount after the new year.

Brandi Carlile plays the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027, at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 26, and tickets are through Ticketmaster, where the listed price is $653.15. The Paramount holds 2,807, and Ticketmaster bills the night under the Burn the Setlist name.

The format is what makes this one different. Carlile announced Burn the Setlist in late September as an all-request theater tour, according to Pollstar and BroadwayWorld. She's joined by her longtime collaborators, twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth, and the three build each night's setlist from audience requests. The fall run is 15 theater dates, opening in Portland on Nov. 5 and wrapping Dec. 17, which puts this Seattle night just after that stretch ends.

There's one house rule to know in advance: phones go into Yondr pouches for the performance. That fits the concept. A show built on requests depends on the room actually being in the room, and a night with no screens in the air is a rarer thing at a theater of this size than it should be.

A show built on requests depends on the room actually being in the room.

It also makes the Paramount a natural pick. This is a room built for listening, with the kind of sightlines and acoustics that reward a stripped-down night — three people, a stack of requests and whatever the crowd throws at them. A deep-catalog crowd in a theater like this one is exactly the audience that turns an all-request show into something worth talking about the next morning.

The Seattle date also lands during a reshuffled stretch of Carlile's calendar. JamBase reported that she moved her fall European dates to spring 2027, citing "personal circumstances," with the rescheduled run now set to start in Oslo on March 27. That leaves the winter for theater nights like this one.

What will she play? That's the whole point — nobody knows, and it depends on who shows up and what they ask for. If there's a deep cut you've been waiting years to hear live, this is the tour where it's worth making the case.

For tickets, use the Ticketmaster link above. A Tuesday in January isn't usually a night anyone circles, but a request-only Brandi Carlile show at the Paramount is not a usual night.

Sources: Pollstar: Brandi Carlile sets all-request 'Burn the Setlist' tour (news.pollstar.com); BroadwayWorld: Brandi Carlile to launch BURN THE SETLIST tour fall 2026 (broadwayworld.com); JamBase: Brandi Carlile details Burn the Setlist all-request tour (jambase.com); JamBase: Brandi Carlile reschedules European tour (jambase.com); Ticketmaster: Brandi Carlile Burn the Setlist, Seattle (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase: Brandi Carlile at Paramount Theatre (jambase.com)