Ella Langley is thirty years younger than the last generation of country women who broke through on the strength of a genuinely distinctive voice, and she came up through TikTok instead of the Nashville radio circuit. On August 13, she’ll be playing Moody Center in Austin, a 15,000-seat arena. This is an earned arrival. The Dandelion Tour, which began in May 2026, is her first arena headline run, and she’s playing it in front of sold-out rooms and audiences that know “Choosin’ Texas” the way they know era-defining songs when they hear them.
Who Ella Langley Is
Born in Hope Hull, Alabama in 1999, Langley grew up with the new country she would help define. She built her initial audience on TikTok — which is not where Nashville expected the next traditional country voice to arrive from, but that’s what happened — and signed with Columbia Records and Sony Music Nashville in 2023. Her collaborative single with Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me,” won Musical Event of the Year at the 2024 CMA Awards. This year, “Choosin’ Texas” topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and the country charts. At the 2025 ACM Awards, she was named New Female Artist of the Year and received eight nominations across the evening.
What matters isn’t the count of awards. What matters is that she earned them in a year when the industry was actually paying attention to the breadth and depth of her work, not just the single.
The Show
Langley will take the stage at Moody Center on Thursday, August 13 at 7:00 PM, with opening sets from Kaitlin Butts and Gabriella Rose. This is the Austin date on a three-show Texas tour — she’ll play Corpus Christi on August 14 and Fort Worth on August 15 — and it’s a full-circle moment for an artist who moved country radio with a song called “Choosin’ Texas.”
About the Venue
Moody Center is a $338 million arena that opened in April 2022 on the University of Texas campus. It seats 15,000, features concert-first acoustics, and a low-bowl design that brings audiences closer to the stage. In 2025, it was the highest-grossing venue in the world for arenas of its size — a credential that speaks to how the touring acts that matter most have voted with their feet.
Tickets & Info
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.