Three years ago, Noah Kahan was a promising singer-songwriter from Strafford, Vermont, doing what promising singer-songwriters do: building a following song by song, playing festival second stages, trying to close the distance between art and livelihood. Then Stick Season found the internet the way things occasionally still do — not through a major-label push, but through a TikTok clip of a song about cold and autumn and the particular ache of a place you can’t quite leave. Kahan is 29 years old. On Thursday, July 30, he headlines Globe Life Field in Arlington as part of The Great Divide Tour — 40,300 seats, retractable roof, the Texas Rangers’ ballpark.
About Noah Kahan
Kahan grew up in the Upper Valley of Vermont, close to the New Hampshire border, and the particularity of that landscape — its winters, its isolation, its seasonal weight — has always been the engine of his songwriting. It is a mode I recognize from a different geography. Townes Van Zandt spent thirty years writing about the specific character of Texas solitude. Kahan writes about the specific character of New England solitude. The musical idioms don’t overlap much, but the honesty of the approach is recognizable across the distance. Stick Season (2022) went four times Platinum; the title track reached eight times Platinum. He received multiple Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist. This year, TIME named him to the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and Marcus Mumford — who knows something about turning folk roots into stadium anthems — wrote in the appreciation that Kahan “brings us closer to our humanity in the same way some of the great folk songwriters did,” citing Dylan and Mitchell. Those are names you earn carefully.
The fourth album, The Great Divide, arrived April 24 via Mercury Records — 17 tracks, co-produced by Gabe Simon (who shaped Stick Season) and Aaron Dessner, who has spent years in the studio with The National and with Taylor Swift. The album tracks the distance between who Kahan was before the breakthrough and who he’s had to become since — which is, by his own account, the whole subject. The title track peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped both the Hot Rock and Alternative Songs charts, his highest-charting single to date. A Netflix documentary, Out of Body, arrived the same month and won the audience award at SXSW; it examines, with considerable frankness, the mental health struggles that the songs have always addressed sideways. A portion of ticket proceeds from every stop benefits The Busyhead Project, Kahan’s mental health initiative, which raised more than $2.5 million over his previous tour.
This is Kahan’s fifth headlining tour, running 27 North American dates from June through late August, and it is operating at a scale that wasn’t obvious three years ago. He has already sold out four consecutive nights at Fenway Park — reportedly the first artist to do so. Over 1.5 million tickets have moved tour-wide. Gigi Perez, whose 2024 acoustic single “Sailor Song” went to No. 1 in the UK and Ireland, opens the evening.
Globe Life Field
Globe Life Field is at 734 Stadium Drive, Arlington, TX 76011 — the Texas Rangers’ retractable-roof ballpark on the south side of the Metroplex, across the parking lot from AT&T Stadium. The roof closes for concerts, which is the material fact for a late-July evening in North Texas. Capacity is 40,300. The 2026 concert calendar at the field also includes the Eagles, Guns N’ Roses with Pierce the Veil, and Fuerza Regida. More information at globelifefield.com. See our Globe Life Field venue guide and the full DFW concerts calendar.
Tickets
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Resales are limited to Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange. Starting prices are approximately $220.