Country Superstar Kelsea Ballerini Heads to Chicago for a One Night Only SiriusXM & Pandora Concert
Special performance at The Riviera Theatre in Chicago on September 25 to air on SiriusXM’s The Highway
NEW YORK, NY – August 27, 2025 – SiriusXM announced today that five-time GRAMMY® Award nominated and multiple Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Award-winning multiplatinum singer-songwriter and producer Kelsea Ballerini will perform an exclusive concert for SiriusXM and Pandora at The Riviera Theatre in Chicago on Thursday, September 25.
The special performance will feature Kelsea Ballerini performing songs from her latest acclaimed album Patterns as well as other familiar hits and fan favorites.
The performance will air in its entirety on SiriusXM’s The Highway (ch. 56) on Friday, October 3 at 11am ET and will also be available to stream anytime on the SiriusXM app.
The special concert will be open to SiriusXM subscribers and fans. Fans can RSVP for a chance to attend HERE. SiriusXM subscribers and fans can also enter for a chance to win a trip to the show, visit HERE.
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Kelsea Ballerini was named a SiriusXM Highway Find in 2014 with her debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It.” SiriusXM’s The Highway was also first to support Kelsea with airplay that same year.
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About Kelsea Ballerini
With a revelatory album, an arena-headlining tour, and a 2025 nomination for the ACM Awards top honor of Entertainer of the Year, Kelsea Ballerini is having a moment.
A beloved artist known for sparkling live performances, the country hitmaker has had a remarkable decade-long run since arriving on the Nashville scene. With her 2015 debut album, The First Time, she became the only female country artist to hit #1 with the first three consecutive singles from a debut album. This history-making feat earned her a “Best New Artist” GRAMMY nomination. She has logged five back-to-back Top 10 entries on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, including the platinum-selling The First Time (2015), gold-selling Unapologetically (2017), gold-selling kelsea(2020), ballerini (2020) and SUBJECT TO CHANGE (2022). With seven #1 singles and 36 certifications from the RIAA to date, her catalog boasts a string of essential smashes.
Expanding her sphere of influence, Ballerini authored her first original book of poetry, Feel Your Way Through (2021), and Dolly Parton tapped her to star in the audiobook of Run, Rose, Run (2022). This same year, the multi-platinum country superstar was named the newest face of CoverGirl. She entered into a multi-year partnership and launched a cosmetic collaboration with the brand in 2023.
Ballerini’s fourth album, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, arrived in 2022. The gold-certified first single, “HEARTFIRST,” earned her a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Country Solo Performance.” She went on to surprise fans five months later with the release of the intimate six-song Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which resonated with audiences and earned her a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Country Album.” Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, along with an accompanying short film written and directed by Ballerini, marked the multi-platinum star’s most honest work to date and led to her Saturday Night Live debut, universal acclaim from critics including The New York Times, Variety, Rolling Stone, as well as the honor of gracing the cover of TIME Magazine.
Kelsea Ballerini's critically acclaimed studio album PATTERNS debuted in the fall of 2024 and earned her the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart and #4 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums. The album found Ballerini purposefully surrounding herself with women, along with producer Alysa Vanderheym, and collaborators Jessie Jo Dillon, Karen Fairchild, and Hillary Lindsey. On the album she enlisted "Best New Artist" GRAMMY nominee Noah Kahan to appear on the tender and beautifully crafted RIAA certified-Gold, CMA Awards-nominated “Musical Event of the Year” and GRAMMY-nominated "Best Country Duo/Group Performance" - single “Cowboys Cry Too.” Most recently, she wrapped up her 35-date KELSEA BALLERINI LIVE ON TOUR, performing in arenas across the country.
In addition to her new music, Ballerini currently serves as the face of COVERGIRL and Pantene and most recently served as Coach on Season 27 of NBC’s The Voice.
With these accolades, it is no wonder NPR proclaimed, “Kelsea Ballerini is definitely one of the most influential women in country right now... she’s defining the sound of the genre.”
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Released August 27, 2025