Beth Orton plays the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Sunday, October 4, 2026, with Kenny Stahl opening and a 7 p.m. start. The show supports The Ground Above, her first new album in four years, released June 26 on Partisan Records. Vancouver did not appear on the itinerary Orton announced in April, when Toronto was billed as her only Canadian stop, and the date now falls at the very end of the North American run.
Key details
- Date: Sunday, October 4, 2026
- Venue: Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street, Vancouver
- Start time: 7 p.m.
- Support: Kenny Stahl
- Album: The Ground Above, out June 26, 2026 via Partisan Records
- Tickets: on sale via Ticketmaster
Full tour dates
The fall 2026 North American leg of Beth Orton's The Ground Above tour, with Kenny Stahl opening the Vancouver show.
- Sep 15 - Washington, DC - The Miracle Theatre
- Sep 16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Baby Grand
- Sep 18 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
- Sep 19 - Somerville, MA - Crystal Ballroom
- Sep 20 - Turners Falls, MA - Shea Theater
- Sep 22 - Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall
- Sep 23 - Detroit, MI - El Club
- Sep 24 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
- Sep 26 - Minneapolis, MN - Parkway Theater
- Sep 28 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
- Sep 30 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
- Oct 2 - Portland, OR - Old Church
- Oct 3 - Seattle, WA - Washington Hall
- Oct 4 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
A date that was not on the poster
When Orton laid out the fall routing in April, the North American leg ran from Washington, D.C. on September 15 through Seattle on October 3, with a single Canadian date at Toronto's Concert Hall on September 22. Vancouver was nowhere on it. The Commodore booking arrived later, slotting in the night after Seattle and more than a week before the UK leg opens in Brighton on October 12. On the dates as published, that makes the Commodore the last room she plays on this continent before crossing the Atlantic.
It is also, by some margin, the biggest room of the North American run. Orton has spent this tour in listening venues built for exactly the kind of record she is touring: Le Poisson Rouge in New York, the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, the Troubadour in Los Angeles, a converted church in Portland. The Commodore, with its sprung floor and roughly 1,000-person capacity, is the outlier on the leg, and the early Sunday start suggests a show pitched closer to a theatre night than a late one.
The Ground Above
The Ground Above runs eight songs and is self-produced, which is a first for Orton and the clearest signal of what she wanted from it. She built it with a small circle of collaborators: Nick Hakim, drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile and Sons of Kemet, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and Sam Beste, who records as Vernon Spring. The title track surfaced in March, and the second single, Waiting, followed in April. Orton described that song as "a celebration of moving out of the holding pattern fear keeps us in," which doubles as a fair description of the album's mood. The playing is loose and unhurried, and the arrangements lean on piano, woodwinds and brushed drums rather than programming.
That is a long way from the records that made her name. Orton arrived in the mid-1990s as the voice that made electronic producers sound human, singing on William Orbit's Strange Cargo sessions and on two Chemical Brothers albums, and her 1996 debut Trailer Park set acoustic songwriting against trip-hop drum programming so persuasively that the music press invented a genre label for it. She has spent the three decades since steadily stripping that hybrid back. Weather Alive, the 2022 album that preceded this one, was written largely at a secondhand upright piano and drew the strongest reviews of her career, landing on year-end lists on both sides of the Atlantic. The Ground Above extends that approach rather than resetting it.
Material this quiet asks something of a room, and the Commodore is capable of giving it when the bill is right. This is the kind of booking that rewards showing up for the opener and staying put. Anyone building an October calendar can find the full slate of Vancouver shows on our concert calendar.
Frequently asked questions
When is Beth Orton playing in Vancouver?
Sunday, October 4, 2026, at the Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street. The listed start time is 7 p.m.
Who is opening for Beth Orton at the Commodore Ballroom?
Kenny Stahl is listed on the bill as support.
What album is Beth Orton touring behind?
The Ground Above, released June 26, 2026 on Partisan Records. It is her first album since Weather Alive in 2022 and the first she has produced herself, with contributions from Tom Skinner, Nick Hakim, Shahzad Ismaily and Sam Beste.
Is the Vancouver show the last date of the tour?
It is the last North American date on the published itinerary. Orton then moves to the United Kingdom, where the tour runs from Brighton on October 12 to London's Alexandra Palace Theatre on October 22.
Scene in the Dark has covered Vancouver's live-music scene since 2010.
