JUDY COLLINS - SWEET JUDY BLUE EYES: FAREWELL TOUR

All ages must have a seat ticket.
*Please note the Long Center is a historic venue. There is no elevator to access the balcony.

Sunday, November 1, 2026  |  6:00 PM

Long Center for the Performing Arts - Mars Theatre
111 N Sixth St, Lafayette, IN  47901

Box Office opens at 5:00PM
Doors open at 5:00 PM
Show time: 6:00 PM

Concessions offers soda, water, beer, wine, and select mixed drinks plus snacks and candies for purchase.

Judy Collins has long inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Six decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 55-album body of work, and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

The award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poetically poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell's “Both Sides Now” from her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Judy’s dreamy and sweetly intimate version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical A Little Night Music, won "Song of the Year” at the 1975 Grammy Awards. She’s garnered several top-ten hits gold- and platinum-selling albums. Recently, contemporary and classic artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Shawn Colvin, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen honored her legacy with the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins.

In 2026, Collins bids adieu to the road with her “SWEET JUDY BLUE EYES” Farewell Tour, launching July 4, 2026 and running through 2027—an expansive final run across North America and beyond that gives audiences one last chance to experience her timeless voice and storytelling live. The tour follows a remarkable recent chapter: six new albums released since 2015, the artistic renaissance of Spellbound (her first album of all self-penned songs, nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards), and her 2025 poetry collection Sometimes It’s Heaven: Poems of Love, Loss and Redemption—a vivid extension of the honesty and grace that have defined her enduring legacy.

For more tour information:  https://www.judycollins.com/

with special guest OAKLAND RAIN

Oakland Rain BIO

Even things that seem identical are different. Oakland Rain’s Maren Wallevik and Charlotte Wallevik are what some would call mirror twins, an elusive condition loosely defined by opposing characteristics. For example, one is left-handed, the other is right-handed; one thinks in colors (sound-to-color synesthesia), and the other is more language centric. Within Maren and Charlotte are many contrasts that shape their sense of selves, both as individuals and as twin sisters.

For the Norwegian indie folk-pop/ country-americana duo’s double full-length debut, Twin Flames, the sisters explore these paradoxes and other puzzles of identity. The conceptual and thoughtfully curated project is organized by color and genre. Twin Flame Part I: The Evergreen (the “green” side) is showcasing Oakland Rain’s affinity for earthy Americana, and was released in the spring of 2025, receiving stunning reviews. With the album, the sisters got nominated for Best New Artist at the honorable Fjordingprisen by Norwegian Americana Forum, played at Folk Alliance International, and got invited to an extensive North American tour by legend Judy Collins. With the album and its aftermath, Oakland Rain released the album documentary “The Road To The Ryman”, which has gained attention amongst international film festivals. Twin Flame Part II: Heavenly Blue (the “blue” side), is slated for autumn 2026/spring 2027, gracefully delves into Nordic fleeting alternative pop.

“The title Twin Flames felt like us—we are literally twin flames—the music on the album is influenced by the dualities that shape us,” Maren says. Charlotte continues: “These two albums are our expression of the human condition. The green side is the realism of life, and the blue side is escapism and imagination. We need both—you can show courage and still hold fear. They can and do coexist.”

At the essence of Oakland Rain is the artistic and emotional interweave of the twin sisters, gorgeously epitomized by their harmony vocals. Oakland Rain songs explore self-evolution, compassion, mental health, social engagement, and nature. These intimate and revelatory topics are written about with a literate and cinematic flair that has a broad resonance.

Oakland Rain has released critically acclaimed EPs and a Norwegian album, written for film, and Ibsen theater plays, amassing more than 3 million cumulative Spotify streams. The duo has toured extensively in Norway and throughout the U.S. and Europe, and since 2024 they have actively been touring in the U.S. with legend Judy Collins. A unique friendship bloomed between the sisters and the American icon, who played a major role in the 60s and 70s folk revival that began in Greenwich Village. Collins has become a mentor and an important figure in the duo’s life. Back home, Oakland Rain has performed at prestigious festivals and halftime shows at major football stadiums; appeared on national and international television and radio; and had the honor of being chosen to play for the Norwegian Crown Prince and Crown Princess. The duo’s songwriting has also been mentioned on Billboard’s list of recommendations.

With their debut as theater composers for playwright Henrik Ibsen’s “The Lady from the Sea” in 2019, the sisters have marked themselves as not only an emerging music act but also as lyricists and genre-bending composers. Their work with Ibsen caught the attention of the Norwegian Ibsen Company and its founder, Kåre Conradi, one of Norway’s most recognized actors. It created a partnership that will be more revealed in the year of Ibsen, 2028. The theater debut expanded their idea of what Oakland Rain could create musically, and it inspired writing and directing their debut short film “dinner with friends & enemies”, with original film music score. Being a project close to their hearts, the duo has been officially selected at film festivals in Cannes and LA, and has caught the attention of professional film and health actors, with their focus on mental health education and suicide prevention. Their friendship with Judy Collins also inspired the project, as she has been a pioneer within the conversation around mental health, both through her music, authorship, and activism. This has carved out a path for people coming after her, which Oakland Rain finds very inspiring.    

Twin Flames is the sisters’ first full-length album sung in English, and it’s a nuanced artistic statement on identity. Throughout, the sisters get more personal about the symbiosis of being twins, and express their strong bond that is the main pillar of their art. They also examine the inner conflict between fear and freedom, and how we as humans cope with both sides. The colors are a visual symbol of woods and land; what we can see and what we know, in contrast to waters and the sky; what we cannot see and what we don’t know.

Twin Flame Part I: The Evergreen is aesthetically themed around an elegant, Americana earthiness inspired by Maren and Charlotte’s maternal grandfather who was a fan of American country and folk music. You can hear that influence in the Simon & Garfunkel-like interlace of the twins’ harmony vocals. Furthermore, Maren and Charlotte spent a year with their family, living in Northern California attending high school. The band was formed during this formative time abroad.

Oakland Rain directly salutes its connection to its grandfather and its American heritage on the evocative, pastoral country ballad, “If You Were A Song”. The song features delicate finger-picked guitar, fiddle, banjo, the sumptuous interlace of Oakland Rain’s harmony vocals, and warmly nostalgic scene-setting imagery like a Mustang muscle car and being by the ocean with wind in your hair. “Sister Hymn” is a self-explanatory paean with gospel vibes, an infectious beat, rhythmic vocals, and goose bump-inducing harmony vocal refrains.

On other songs of Twin Flame Part I: The Evergreen, Oakland Rain explore self-growth, and the quest for authenticity and bravery in a challenging and hurtful world. The twins confront this on the delicately powerful “I’m Scared Of Everything”, a country ballad featuring banjo, pedal steel, and washes of electronic ethereal ambience. “Society favors toughness, but to show courage we must also display vulnerability,” Maren says. Charlotte adds: “It’s that inner conflict we all face between fear and freedom.” Within the taut indie-rock of “Don’t Be Sad”, Oakland Rain survey the damage of stifling stigmatization of emotional expression. Charlotte explains: “‘Don’t Be Sad’ is a common phrase we hear when somebody is crying, but it makes you feel ashamed of your feelings.”

The Nordic pop of Twin Flame Part II: Heavenly Blue, the second half of Oakland Rain’s debut, will whisk listeners away to the Norwegian countryside with evocative lyrics and musicality. Here, this breathtaking landscape functions metaphorically for escapism and the search for belonging.

The Twin Flames experience has been transformative for Maren and Charlotte, and not just personally, but artistically, also. “As young writers and musicians, you worry that trusting in the recording process can be misunderstood, but it can be freeing to let the music dictate what it wants to be,” Maren says. Charlotte adds: “You can’t plan art; you have to let go—it’s scary—but it’s that duality of fear and freedom.”

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