Brandi Carlile: A Benefit For The Montauk Point Lighthouse
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Murmrr Presents: Brandi Carlile
A Benefit for the Montauk Point Lighthouse
July 23, 2026 | Pre-Party 5PM | Show 8PM
Brandi Carlile is an Oscar-nominee, 11x Grammy-winner, 2x EMMY-winner and #1 New York Times Bestselling author. After pouring herself into projects with musical icons, Carlile is looking inward on her new album, Returning To Myself (Interscope Records/Lost Highway), produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. The album debuted at #7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, landed at #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts, and has been praised as “one of the best albums of the year” (Variety). The record follows Who Believes in Angels?, the universally praised, Grammy-nominated collaborative album with her childhood hero Elton John, which debuted at #1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S. In the midst of yet another monumental year, Carlile was recently honored as one of TIME’s 2026 Women of the Year, performed a “gorgeous” (Billboard) rendition of “America The Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX and kicked off her extensive “The Human Tour,” which consists of arena shows across North America, the U.K. and Europe. Carlile will also return to The Gorge Amphitheatre for three nights this spring with her “Echoes Through The Canyon” weekend, featuring The Highwomen, Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, I’m With Her, Brittney Spencer and Sara Bareilles. Beloved by her peers, Carlile has worked with artists such as Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, P!nk and Dolly Parton, was named OUT Magazine’s Icon of the Year, awarded Billboard’s Women In Music Trailblazer Award and NMPA’s Songwriter Icon Award as well as multiple awards from the Americana Music Association. Carlile is also a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $9M for grassroots causes to date and lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters.
The Montauk Historical Society is the nonprofit organization that owns the Montauk Point Lighthouse. It costs over $1.6 million a year to run the lighthouse and museum. Special events, like its annual benefit concert, are an essential way to fund programming and maintenance. An extensive restoration of the tower and the exterior of the museum was completed summer of 2023 after over five years of work and planning, and at a cost of $1.8 million. It was funded by grants, generous donations, and admission fees. A $38 million revetment, led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and New York State’s Department of Environmental Control, was completed that same year, and will safeguard the lighthouse for future generations. The mission of the Montauk Historical Society is to collect, restore, preserve, and display historically significant buildings, objects, and writings, and to preserve the history and cultures of Montauk and the East End for this and future generations.
