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Lucinda Williams

Tuesday 3 February 2026, 8pm

Barbican Hall

Tickets from £40 plus booking fee

American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams returns to the Barbican in February 2026. Following sold-out Barbican shows in 2019 and 2023, the three-time Grammy award winner now brings a headline set of material drawn from across her career.

Across more than four decades of music-making, Williams has carved out one of the most respected careers in American songwriting — blending Southern gothic storytelling, raw blues, and fierce poetic honesty. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised in what she calls a “culturally rich, economically poor” environment, Williams began performing in hardscrabble clubs before releasing her self-titled 1988 Rough Trade album. Though not an immediate commercial hit, the eponymous album became a touchstone of the Americana movement and is now widely regarded as a classic. 

Williams' catalogue spans iconic releases like Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998), which earned her a Grammy and cult status, and later works such as West (2007), Blessed (2011), and her critically praised double albums Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (2014) and The Ghosts of Highway 20 (2016). In 2020, she released Good Souls Better Angels — a bold, politically charged record that earned two Grammy nominations and was lauded as a return to her raw blues roots.

Inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in 2021, Williams continues to write, record, and perform with unflinching honesty and emotional force. 

The evening will see Williams perform material from across her career, backed by her full band, offering audiences a powerful night of music from one of America’s most vital voices.

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