Brandi Carlile - Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2-21-2026

Here's a concert that I'm posting (on February 24, 2026) only three days after it took place. One thing that often stops me from posting recent music is sound quality. But this is a rare exception because the concert was broadcast live on a local radio station. That means the sound quality is excellent.

This concert had special significance because of the city it was taking place in - Minneapolis. This was a regularly scheduled stop on Brandi Carlile's national tour, planned months in advance. But with the battles between I.C.E. and the local populace in Minneapolis, Carlile wanted to broadcast this concert on the radio to help celebrate the successful resistance efforts there. It was also livestreamed nationally, and available for a fee for 24 hours. The concert thus raised $600,000 for a non-profit, the Advocates for Human Rights, who are supporting legal efforts of those detained by I.C.E. So good for Carlile! I hope more musical acts make similar efforts.

If you also want to donate to the same cause, here's their link:

https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/Home 

This concert got some media attention. Here's a Rolling Stone Magazine article about it, which mainly consists of an interview Carlile gave right after the concert finished:

Brandi Carlile on Resisting Trump, Protesting ICE in Minneapolis 

And here's another article with some further links and photos and so forth:

https://www.jambase.com/article/brandi-carlile-twin-cities-singing-resistance-minneapolis

The song list was pretty similar to other ones on her tour. It mostly consisted of originals, with a few covers thrown in: "Long, Long Time," "Viva la Vida," and "Uninvited." And just for the concert, it ended with "It's Okay to Change Your Mind," which had become a theme song for protesters in Minneapolis. For that song, Carlile was joined on stage by the Singing Resistance, which is a group of hundreds of locals who have been conducting singing vigils to help protest illegal actions by I.C.E.

I didn't change the music here. However, there were frequent interjections by radio DJs between songs to mention the radio station name and so on. I edited all of those out. And there was much longer DJ banter before and after the concert, plus during an unusually long break before the encore. I cut all that out as well.  

Thanks to commenter nytvf for suggesting I check out this concert. I might have missed it otherwise. 

This album is two hours and 22 minutes long. 

01 Returning to Myself (Brandi Carlile)
02 Human (Brandi Carlile)
03 talk (Brandi Carlile)
04 Mainstream Kid (Brandi Carlile)
05 Broken Horses (Brandi Carlile)
06 talk (Brandi Carlile)
07 A War with Time (Brandi Carlile)
08 talk (Brandi Carlile)
09 A Woman Oversees (Brandi Carlile)
10 Right on Time (Brandi Carlile)
11 talk (Brandi Carlile)
12 Who Believes in Angels (Brandi Carlile)
13 talk (Brandi Carlile)
14 Beginning to Feel the Years (Brandi Carlile)
15 talk (Brandi Carlile)
16 The Things I Regret (Brandi Carlile)
17 talk (Brandi Carlile)
18 You without Me (Brandi Carlile)
19 The Mother (Brandi Carlile)
20 talk (Brandi Carlile)
21 The Story (Brandi Carlile)
22 talk (Brandi Carlile)
23 You and Me on the Rock (Brandi Carlile)
24 talk (Brandi Carlile)
25 No One Knows Us (Brandi Carlile)
26 talk (Brandi Carlile)
27 Sinners, Saints and Fools - Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Brandi Carlile)
28 talk (Brandi Carlile)
29 Long, Long Time (Brandi Carlile)
30 talk (Brandi Carlile)
31 The Joke (Brandi Carlile)
32 Hold Out Your Hand (Brandi Carlile)
33 talk (Brandi Carlile)
34 Viva la Vida (Brandi Carlile with the Head & the Heart)
35 Church and State (Brandi Carlile)
36 Uninvited (Brandi Carlile)
37 talk (Brandi Carlile)
38 A Long Goodbye - Girl from the North Country (Brandi Carlile)
39 It's Okay to Change Your Mind (Brandi Carlile with the Singing Resistance) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4yqPQbXg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/6DPGvIGjM5rq3hI/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.