Megan Moroney Opening Act 2026 — Who is the Support?

Who opens for Megan Moroney?

The Lucky Tour set the original template for how Megan Moroney builds an opener bill, and the Am I Okay? Tour amphitheater leg has refined that template across the female country songwriter community Moroney came up alongside: typically two openers, country-and-Americana-leaning, pulled from the female-songwriter scene Moroney respects rather than the standard major-label country opener carousel. Kassi Ashton — the Missouri-born Universal Music Group Nashville signing whose 2024 debut Made From the Dirt drew immediate critical comparisons to Moroney's own confessional style — has anchored multiple direct-support slots and is the closest the current Moroney touring operation has to a regular co-headliner. Ella Langley — the Alabama-born country-soul singer whose "You Look Like You Love Me" and "Weren't For The Wind" broke through on country radio at the same time the Am I Okay? album cycle was rolling — held the warm-up slot on the early Am I Okay? Tour legs before her own headline routing scaled, and remains the opener Moroney fans walking in late most consistently regret missing. Ashley Cooke, Hailey Whitters, Carter Faith, Avery Anna and Tigirlily Gold have rotated through individual nights and the U.K. C2C festival routing — the curatorial logic is consistent across the tour: female country songwriters under 30 with their own developing radio runs. For the C2C and U.K. theatre legs Moroney has rotated in Americana-leaning U.K. country acts like Kezia Gill and Twinnie alongside the U.S. supports. What that means for a newer Moroney fan: do not skip the openers. Doors open 60 to 75 minutes before showtime on most Am I Okay? Tour amphitheater and theatre dates, the first opener takes the stage 30 to 45 minutes after doors and plays a tight 25-to-35-minute set, the direct support runs 40 to 50 minutes, and Moroney hits the stage at roughly 9:00 local. The confirmed opener for any specific date is listed on the Ticketmaster event page above once announced — usually six to ten weeks ahead of show day for theatre routings. Your Megan Moroney ticket covers every performer on the bill on the same night at the same venue; there is no separate opener ticket and no separate opener entry line. The practical advice for an amphitheater night is to arrive at doors, eat at the lots or the on-site concessions before the first opener, and use the first-opener slot to find your seats and orient before the room fills.

How Megan Moroney Tour Openers Get Announced

Most Megan Moroneytour openers aren't named when tickets go on sale. The supporting act is locked in per-region (sometimes per-show) and surfaces on the official Ticketmaster show page in the weeks before each stop. Click any date above to see whether the opener is confirmed yet — Catch Movement pulls live show pages daily, so the listed support act updates as soon as Ticketmaster does.

For headliners at Megan Moroney's scale, expect a single opener doing a 30 to 45 minute set, sometimes with a regional rotation (a Canadian opener for CA dates, a US opener for the American leg). The opener slot doesn't require a separate ticket — your Megan Moroney ticket covers the full show.

How to Find the Confirmed Megan Moroney Opener for Your City

1. Pick your city from the tour-date list above.
2. Click through to that show's Ticketmaster page.
3. Check the listing — confirmed openers appear under the headline name once added.
4. Watch for updates — openers are sometimes added 2 to 4 weeks out, so check back if it's still TBA.

Do I Need a Separate Ticket for the Opener?

No. The Megan Moroney ticket you buy from Ticketmaster covers the entire show — opener + headliner — at the same venue, same night. Doors usually open 60 to 90 minutes before the advertised start time; the opener typically performs first, with a 20 to 30 minute changeover before Megan Moroney takes the stage.

Megan Moroney Opening Act — FAQ

About Megan Moroney

Megan Aliza Moroney was born June 26, 1997 in Savannah, Georgia and raised about an hour and a half inland in the small Effingham County town of Douglasville. Her father was a touring musician on the Southeast bar circuit through her childhood, which put a guitar in her hands by age six and a microphone in front of her at family gigs by age eight; she grew up listening as much to Patty Loveless and Lee Ann Womack as she did to her mother's Taylor Swift records, and that mix — traditional country phrasing pulled through Swift-era confessional pop songwriting — has been the defining sound of her catalogue from the first demo onward. She enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens in 2015 as an accounting major, kept playing open mics at the Georgia Theatre and downtown Athens songwriter rounds, and started uploading rough TikTok demos of original songs from her dorm room and her parents' kitchen in 2020 during the COVID lockdown. The breakthrough was "Tennessee Orange" — a song she wrote about a real-life Athens crush who wore University of Tennessee colours in front of her Georgia-loyal family — uploaded as a rough acoustic demo to TikTok in September 2022. The clip pulled past ten million views inside a week, drew label A&R from every major Music Row publisher, and was officially released through Sony Music Nashville's Columbia Nashville imprint on September 30, 2022. The single climbed to No. 4 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart by spring 2023 and made Moroney the first solo female country artist since 2009 to chart a debut single inside the top ten without prior label promotion.

The debut full-length Lucky arrived in May 2023 with thirteen songs co-written almost entirely by Moroney herself, debuted at No. 3 on Billboard Country Albums, and turned "I'm Not Pretty", "Tennessee Orange" and "Sleep on My Side" into a three-single radio run that kept Moroney on country radio rotation for the better part of eighteen months. The CMA Awards nominated her for New Artist of the Year three years running starting in 2023; the Academy of Country Music followed with New Female Artist of the Year recognition; the CMT Music Awards handed her the Female Video of the Year award for "Tennessee Orange" in 2024 and again for "Am I Okay?" in 2025. The 2024 sophomore Am I Okay? — produced by Kristian Bush (of Sugarland) and recorded mostly in East Nashville with Moroney's road band — leaned into the confessional break-up-and-rebuild material that had defined her TikTok identity but pushed the sound deeper into the country-pop-and-Americana crossover lane, debuting top five on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart with title track "Am I Okay?", "Heaven by Noon", the deeply specific "28th of June" and "I Know You" all extending the radio run. The self-coined "Emo Cowgirl" identity — pink-and-black palette, hand-cut denim, the visible eyeliner Moroney wears onstage and off, the recurring rhinestone-cowboy-hat-meets-Hot-Topic-childhood aesthetic — has carried across both album cycles and made her one of the most visually identifiable new country artists of the streaming era. Three nominations into the CMA New Artist of the Year cycle, a sold-out theatre tour for Lucky, a sold-out amphitheater leg for Am I Okay?, the headline slot on the Country to Country (C2C) U.K. festival routing, an opening run for Luke Combs on his stadium dates, and a Sony Music Nashville home base she has shown every sign of staying loyal to put Moroney at the front of the next wave of female country headliners.

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