Every Opener on Ella Langley's Dandelion Tour Is a Woman — Here's Who

If you are wondering who's opening for Ella Langley on the 2026 Dandelion Tour, the short answer is the part worth talking about: every single one of them is a woman. Across the whole headlining run, Ella handed the opening slots to other women in country music — five of them, rotating by date — and she did it on purpose. For her first arena tour as the headliner, that is a quiet statement that lands louder than most.

Who's Opening for Ella Langley

The openers Ella chose for the Dandelion Tour are Gabriella Rose, Kaitlin Butts, Avery Anna, Laci Kaye Booth, and Madeline Edwards. They split the dates between them, so the exact name on your ticket depends on which city you are catching — but whoever it is, you are getting a woman with her own catalog and her own crowd, not a generic warm-up act.

A few quick introductions if these names are new to you. Kaitlin Butts is the Oklahoma firecracker behind Roadrunner!, a theatrical, twangy record that earned her a devoted live following. Avery Anna came up writing aching, diaristic songs that hit hard with younger country fans. Laci Kaye Booth carries a smoky, throwback voice that has drawn Lana Del Rey comparisons. Madeline Edwards is a genre-blurring vocalist who has toured with Chris Stapleton and sung at the Opry. Gabriella Rose rounds out the bill as the newest name, the kind of early-career artist a slot like this can genuinely launch.

Why Ella Booked an All-Women Bill

Country touring math usually does not work out this way. Headliners often pick openers for cross-promotion or label politics, and the genre's biggest stages still skew heavily male. Rolling Stone called what Ella is doing "extraordinary" precisely because booking women for every date is not the default — it is a choice she had to make against the grain.

It also fits who Ella has been all along. She broke through writing plainspoken songs about being a complicated woman, and she has been open about wanting to pull other women up alongside her rather than guard the spotlight. An all-women tour bill is that idea made literal: five artists getting arena reps, arena crowds, and a real look in front of fans who came for country and stayed for the whole night.

How to Catch a Show

The Dandelion Tour kicked off in May and runs through August, wrapping up — fittingly — in Texas. If you want to know which opener is playing your city, the date-by-date breakdown lives on our Ella Langley tour page, where we keep every confirmed stop and venue current. While you are planning, our Dandelion album breakdown walks through the record these setlists are built on, and our look at "Be Her" unpacks the song that has become the emotional centerpiece of the live show.

The simplest way to put it: Ella Langley did not just headline her first arena tour. She used it to hand the mic to five other women on her way up — and that is the kind of thing fans remember long after the encore.

Opener roster and tour framing via Rolling Stone, Jubileecast, and Holler.