Wynonna Judd brings The Hard Truth Tour to Charles Town on March 12

Fresh off a new solo album, Wynonna adds a Hollywood Casino date to the 2027 leg of a tour that ends with her first headlining nights at the Ryman.

Two weeks before Wynonna Judd finally headlines the Ryman Auditorium, she'll be in Charles Town. The country singer's newly expanded Hard Truth Tour comes to The Event Center at Hollywood Casino on Friday, March 12, 2027, with the show starting at 8 p.m.

The date was announced Oct. 26 as part of a batch of 16 new 2027 concerts across the South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, according to The Music Universe and TicketNews. Fan-club presales opened Oct. 28 and the general on-sale followed Oct. 30, so tickets are available now through Ticketmaster, with tour details at Wynonna.com.

The tour is built around new music. Wynonna released her latest solo album on Oct. 2 through ANTI- Records, as mxdwn and BroadwayWorld reported. Ahead of the release, iHeart framed the record as her most personal, powerful work yet. The run opened Oct. 8 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, a small club for a singer of her size, and has been rolling since, with Pollstar and MusicRow covering the original fall announcement in August.

The 2027 leg runs through March and ends with a milestone: on March 26 and 27 she plays her first-ever headlining shows at the Ryman in Nashville. Other stops on the new leg include the Tobin Center in San Antonio on Feb. 13 and a Feb. 10 date on the Country Music Cruise out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Charles Town lands in the stretch run, two weeks before the Ryman finale, which makes it one of the last chances to catch this show before it closes out.

There's a giving side to the tour, too. Wynonna is working with the Music Community Foundation to donate $1 from every ticket to nonprofits through The Only Love Fund, per the tour announcement.

For Shenandoah Valley readers, the Event Center is the closest thing to a big-room country stop in the Eastern Panhandle. It holds about 1,500, which is a far more intimate setting than the arenas Wynonna has played across a long career, and that suits a tour of new, personal material. You'll hear the voice that has carried country radio for decades in a room where you can actually see her face.

Charles Town lands two weeks before the Ryman finale, one of the last chances to catch this show before it closes out.

March is a long way off, but casino rooms of this size for an artist with this kind of following tend to fill well ahead of time. If you want good seats, now is when to get them.

Make a night of it: dinner in Charles Town, then a few hours with one of the great voices in country music, singing songs she wrote about the hard parts.

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