Americana/rock artist Kara Hesse returns to Seattle on Friday, August 28, joining The Talbott Brothers for an evening at one of the city’s most distinctive live music destinations, The Triple Door.
For Hesse, the Seattle appearance carries a deeper significance than another stop on the calendar. Her latest album, Devil & the Dove, was a five-year labor of love recorded across Seattle and Nashville, making her return to the Pacific Northwest a fitting homecoming for a project that represents an entirely new chapter in her career.
Hesse describes Devil & the Dove as an “absolute rebirth and reset,” capturing a more lived-in, vulnerable, and self-assured side of an artist whose career has already taken her from intimate listening rooms to stages alongside Steve Miller Band, B.B. King, Al Green, and Buddy Guy.
Her music has also reached audiences beyond the stage, with placements on CBS’ Scorpion and DirecTV’s You Me Her.
Blending Americana storytelling with the grit and energy of rock, Hesse has built her sound around emotionally honest songwriting and a commanding live presence. Devil & the Dove pushes that identity further, exploring the contradictions and experiences that come with growth, reinvention, and finding confidence in your own perspective.
Among the album’s standout tracks is “Vanity,” a fictional story inspired by Hesse’s observations of the increasingly complicated messages surrounding beauty, sexuality, attention, empowerment, and self-worth in modern culture.
Rather than presenting easy answers, the song examines the tension between wanting to be seen and determining how much of ourselves we are willing to give away in the process.
That combination of storytelling, vulnerability, and rock-and-roll edge will come to the stage when Hesse joins The Talbott Brothers at The Triple Door, bringing material from Devil & the Dove back to one of the cities where the album itself took shape.
Show Details
Kara Hesse with The Talbott Brothers
Friday, August 28, 2026
The Triple Door — Seattle, Washington
7:00 PM
For Hesse, it’s more than a return to Seattle. It’s an opportunity to bring a project partly born in the city back to the stage—and share the artist who emerged on the other side of its five-year journey.
