Ella Langley in Des Moines: Tour Dates & Tickets

Ella Langley Des Moines ticket prices

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Planning: Wells Fargo Arena - IA · Casey's Center

• Wells Fargo Arena - IA — 730 3rd Street · listed start 19:00 on Oct 29, 2026
• Casey's Center — 730 3rd Street · listed start 19:00 on Oct 29, 2026

Ella Langley in Des Moines — FAQ

About Ella Langley

Ella Langley grew up in Hope Hull, a small spot in the Montgomery, Alabama metro, the kind of place where Friday-night football, deer camp and George Strait on the truck radio shape a kid's musical vocabulary before they ever pick up a guitar. She moved to Auburn for college, started writing in earnest, and made the standard Nashville pilgrimage with a notebook full of songs and a clear-eyed sense that she wasn't going to chase whatever pop-country trend was on the radio that month. Early independent singles like "Country Boy's Dream Girl" earned her a co-sign from established songwriters and a slot on writer's-round nights at venues like the Bluebird Cafe and Listening Room, which is the slow ladder most Music Row careers actually climb before any radio play happens.

The Hungover album is the document of that climb finally paying off. Released through her label deal with Sony Music Nashville's Columbia imprint, the record leans hard on traditional country instrumentation — fiddle, pedal steel, telecaster twang — and frames Langley as a songwriter first, with cuts like "Damn You" trading the polished gloss of contemporary country radio for the kind of bar-stool resignation that listeners hear in classic Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn records. Hungover put her on the year-end best-of lists at Rolling Stone Country, The Boot, Whiskey Riff and the rest of the format's serious press, and it cemented the framing that has followed her since: a young Alabama woman writing real country songs in a Nashville that, for a long stretch, seemed to have given up on doing exactly that.

Then came "You Look Like You Love Me", the duet with fellow Georgia-meets-Alabama country traditionalist Riley Green, which detonated on TikTok before it ever sniffed terrestrial radio. The chemistry, the bar-pickup-line lyric, the easy back-and-forth between Langley's smirking lead and Green's straight-faced reply turned the song into the country crossover hit of its run — radio adds, late-night TV spots, awards-show performance slots and a streaming arc that pushed Langley from "promising new artist" to "name on the marquee" inside a single touring cycle. The framing now is clear: traditional-country revivalist, songwriter's songwriter, breakout female voice in a format that has been waiting for one. Live, that's exactly what the show delivers.

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