Brandi Carlile throws out the setlist at the State Theatre, Tuesday, Nov 17

Her all-request, phone-free trio tour with the Hanseroth twins reaches Hennepin Avenue next week.

Most concerts are planned down to the minute weeks in advance. Next Tuesday on Hennepin Avenue, the plan is that there isn't one. Brandi Carlile plays the State Theatre in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Nov 17, at 8pm, on a tour where the audience writes the setlist. Tickets are through Ticketmaster.

The run is called Burn the Setlist (The All Request Tour), and the name is the whole idea. According to Pollstar, which broke the details in late September, the shows are built from fan requests rather than a fixed set. It's a 15-date run of theaters, and it's stripped down to a trio: Carlile with Phil and Tim Hanseroth, the twin brothers who have played alongside her for years, as BroadwayWorld and mxdwn both reported.

The tour opened Nov 5 at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon, and has already worked through Oakland, two nights in Tucson and Des Moines, with Milwaukee on Nov 14 just ahead of Minneapolis. It closes Dec 17 at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. That means by the time the trio hits the State, they'll have about a dozen request nights under their belts, and the show should be loose in the best way.

The audience writes the setlist.

The other thing to know before you go: this is a phone-free show. Per the tour coverage, phones get sealed in Yondr pouches that you keep with you for the night and unlock on your way out. If you need to check on a babysitter, there's usually a designated area to do it, but plan on being unreachable for a couple of hours. Venue policies can differ by show, so check the fine print on your ticket. Honestly, for an evening built around requests and three people on a stage, it's hard to imagine a better rule.

The State Theatre is the right room for it. With 2,181 seats, it's one of the grand old Hennepin Avenue theaters, big enough to hold the kind of crowd Carlile draws but intimate enough that a shouted request from the balcony might actually reach the stage. That's the point. This isn't the arena or amphitheater version of a Brandi Carlile show; it's the version where she and the twins can pivot on a dime when somebody calls out a deep cut.

General on-sale for the tour began Oct 2, and with only 15 dates and theater-sized rooms, tickets were never going to be plentiful. If you've been on the fence, check the Ticketmaster page sooner rather than later.

Do a little homework before Tuesday. Pick the one song you've always wanted to hear live, the one that never makes the setlist, and be ready to make your case. On this tour, somebody's request is going to get played. It might as well be yours.

Sources: Brandi Carlile Sets All-Request 'Burn The Setlist' Tour (Pollstar) (news.pollstar.com); Brandi Carlile to Launch BURN THE SETLIST Tour Fall 2026 (BroadwayWorld) (broadwayworld.com); Brandi Carlile Announces Fall 2026 'Burn The Setlist' North American Tour Dates (mxdwn) (music.mxdwn.com); Brandi Carlile plots U.S. Burn The Setlist: The All Request Tour (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Brandi Carlile tickets (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase listing (jambase.com)