Sara Bareilles returns with new album Good Grief set for August 28

SARA BAREILLES RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM GOOD GRIEF SET FOR AUGUST 28 RELEASE

FIRST SINGLE “HOME” OUT TODAY HEADLINE TOUR ACROSS NORTH AMERICA THIS FALL  GOOD GRIEF DOCUMENTARY TO MAKE ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE TRIBECA FESTIVAL JUNE 4

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June 3, 2026—GRAMMY-winning, Tony and Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and Epic Records recording artist Sara Bareilles sets her new album, Good Grief, for August 28—presave/preorder HERE. Alongside the announcement, Bareilles is debuting the album’s first single, “Home”—listen/share HERE. Bareilles will also make her long-awaited return to the stage this fall for her deeply personal Good Grief Tour, promoted by Live Nation. Good Grief marks Bareilles’ seventh studio album and her first since 2019’s Grammy-winning Amidst the Chaos, opening a new chapter to her 20-year career. True to its title, the 14-track collection is a reckoning with loss, yet even its darkest moments are threaded with an insistent, luminous pull toward hope.  “This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world,” says Bareilles. “My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.” “Home,” the album’s first single, was inspired by a conversation between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper about grief and loss on Cooper’s podcast. Bareilles shares, “It feels like an invitation and a tone setter for the specificity and depth of this record. It just feels really essential right now. In order for us as humans to really know and understand each other, we have to listen to each other’s stories.” Bareilles will also make her long-awaited return to the stage this fall for her deeply personal Good Grief Tour. Kicking off September 9 in Boston, this trek marks a triumphant new chapter for an artist at the height of her storytelling powers. The shows promise a blend of raw, vulnerable new tracks from Good Grief, alongside songs that have defined her career and connection to fans. Bringing her signature wit and authenticity to iconic theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and more, Bareilles hopes to invite fans into an intimate space of connection, truth-telling, joy and some good grief. Tickets will be available starting with artist, Verizon and CITI pre-sales on Monday, June 8 (details below for exact times), with general onsale beginning on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 A.M. local time. See below for full tour routing and visit sarabmusic.com for more information. Good Grief spans remarkable thematic ground, all of it rooted in Bareilles' own experience—from intimate tributes to lost friends, to defiant anthems for women's rights, to unexpected moments of lightness found in the darkest of times. Produced by Bareilles herself, the album was mostly recorded over six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY, alongside a band of longtime collaborators: drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and co-producer, recording engineer and mixer Jonathan Low. Later sessions took place alongside co-producer Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley, NY, with assists from engineer and mixer Bella Blasko. The collection also features contributions from Brandi Carlile, Andrea Gibson, Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Tippett and Megan Falley. The making of the album was captured in the documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week. Directed by Josh Alexander and produced by Daniel J. Chalfen, the film offers an intimate, unfiltered portrait of Bareilles’ return to the recording studio with close friends for the first time in seven years—a cinematic document of her creative process that becomes a profoundly personal, ultimately hopeful meditation on loss, grief and the power of music to heal. A masterclass in creativity, community and vulnerability, the documentary serves as a reminder of music’s extraordinary power to connect us to ourselves and to each other. The album, tour and documentary add to a landmark year for Bareilles. Her song “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” co-written with Brandi Carlile and the late poet and activist Andrea Gibson, appears in the Peabody Award-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, on which Bareilles also serves as executive producer. The song was shortlisted for Best Original Song and the film for Best Documentary at the 98th Academy Awards. The track also appears on Good Grief. Bareilles is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor, producer, activist, and New York Times best-selling author. A two-time GRAMMY winner, she has also earned three Tony and three Primetime Emmy nominations. Bareilles has sold more than three million albums and 15 million singles in the U.S., with over 3.5 billion streams worldwide. On Broadway, Bareilles composed the music and lyrics for Waitress, later stepping into the lead role both on Broadway and the West End. Her additional theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance as the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods and a song on the Tony Award-nominated score for SpongeBob SquarePants. Her on-screen work includes an Emmy Award-nominated performance as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live! and her role as Dawn Solano in the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva. She is also currently developing a musical theater adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel The Interestings.

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SARA BAREILLES—GOOD GRIEF 1. Home 2. Just a Kid 3. Still Crying 4. A Love Story 5. Hands Off My Body 6. Ladies In A Line 7. Heartland 8. Capsize Me 9. Nervous Breakdown 10. Idiot Heart 11. Say Leave 12. Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (feat. Brandi Carlile) 13. Forever 14. Wind Is the Weather SARA BAREILLES LIVE September 9—Boston, MA—MGM Music Hall at Fenway September 12—Washington, D.C.—The Anthem September 15—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall September 18—New York, NY—Radio City Music Hall September 21—Philadelphia, PA—The Met September 24—Atlanta, GA—Fox Theatre September 25—Cincinnati, OH—Taft Theatre September 27—Chicago, IL—Chicago Theatre September 30—Minneapolis, MN—Orpheum Theatre October 2—St. Louis, MO—Stifel Theatre October 4—Denver, CO—Bellco Theatre October 6—Austin, TX—Bass Concert Hall October 7—Houston, TX—The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts October 12—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre October 13—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre October 16—San Francisco, CA—Bill Graham Civic Auditorium October 19—Seattle, WA—The Paramount Theatre