Megan Moroney in Sacramento: Tour Dates & Tickets

Planning: Discovery Park

• Discovery Park — Interstate 5 @ Garden Highway · listed start 12:00 on Oct 9, 2027, 12:00 on Oct 10, 2027

Megan Moroney in Sacramento — 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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