Miley Cyrus is finally stepping onto the Hollywood Bowl stage — a venue she says she has sat in the audience for countless times but never performed at — with two shows set for October 16 and 18. The announcement lands just days after the death of her godmother, country legend Dolly Parton, and doubles as the launch of her 10th studio album, Bass Persuades, out September 18.
Cyrus made the announcement on Instagram, calling the Hollywood Bowl her favorite place to experience music and see her favorite artists, according to KTLA. Billed as “Miley: Bass Persuades – Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” the two-night run marks her first major standalone live performances since 2022, according to SeatGeek, which notes she has largely opted out of traditional multi-city arena tours in recent years.
Experimental Brooklyn band Model/Actriz will open both nights and also appears as a guest collaborator on the new album's track “Different Religion,” per SeatGeek. General tickets go on sale September 10 at 10 a.m. PST through Ticketmaster, following an American Express presale on September 8 and artist presales the day after, as detailed by Pollstar.
A New Label, a New Name, a New Sound
The shows tie directly into the rollout for Bass Persuades, a 10-track LP that marks Cyrus's debut release with Atlantic Records after her departure earlier this year from Columbia, according to Hits Daily Double. The album includes a collaboration with Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow on a track titled “Neon Signs,” the outlet reports; Wyatt previously co-wrote Cyrus's 2019 single “Slide Away.”
Cyrus has also rebranded her public identity around the new era, changing her website to mileyofficial.com and updating her Instagram and X account names to simply “Miley,” per KTLA. She posted a social media image captioned simply “Miley” to mark the shift. On Instagram, she said she sincerely hopes fans love the album, according to the outlet's report.
Remembering Dolly Parton
The announcement comes roughly a week after Dolly Parton died at age 80 on August 25 at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville following a brief battle with cancer, as reported by Consequence. Parton was Cyrus's godmother and played Aunt Dolly on Cyrus's Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, and the two collaborated on music projects over two decades, per KTLA's account.
Their creative partnership included Parton's 2017 appearance on Cyrus's song “Rainbowland,” a cover of Cyrus's “Wrecking Ball,” and, as recently as February 2026, a re-recording of “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” alongside Queen Latifah, Reba McEntire and Lainey Wilson, according to KTLA. Cyrus said the loss of her aunt Dolly was beyond what felt right to share publicly, but added that Dolly would want her to feel the loss, write a song about it, continue on and be strong.
Parton was an 11-time Grammy winner, and her catalog surged after her death, accumulating more than 19.8 million Spotify streams in a single day — a 1,300% daily jump that set a career streaming record, according to a report cited by Upsocl. Cyrus herself has won Grammy Awards, having claimed Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Flowers” at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2024, according to the Recording Academy.
A Landmark Venue for a Landmark Moment
The Hollywood Bowl, where Cyrus will make her performing debut, is a Los Angeles County public park operated in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and holds roughly 17,500 people, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. Opened in 1922, it remains the largest natural outdoor amphitheater in the country. Under lease agreements between the county and the Philharmonic Association, the venue also reserves select seats priced as low as $1 for certain classical and jazz performances to keep the Bowl broadly accessible to the public, per the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
For Cyrus, whose Hannah Montana career kicked off two decades ago and has since spanned collaborations from Beyoncé's Grammy-nominated country album to 20th-anniversary Disney nostalgia parties, the October shows represent both a milestone and a full-circle moment at a venue she has long watched from the crowd.
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