If the music of Karen Carpenter, Carole King, and Fleetwood Mac means something to you, there is a Thursday night show at the Crest Theatre worth knowing about. British singer-songwriter Harriet brings her Trying to Get the Feeling Again tour to Sacramento on November 19, 2026 — her first appearance in the city — with a set built around the warmth and craft of 1970s pop songwriting.
Who Is Harriet?
Harriet is a British singer and songwriter whose contralto voice draws frequent comparisons to Karen Carpenter. She came to wider attention in the United Kingdom as a vocal stylist with an ear for melody and an affinity for the kind of meticulously arranged pop that defined radio in the 1970s. Her Trying to Get the Feeling Again album — the title lifted from a Barry Manilow song — is exactly what it sounds like: a carefully assembled collection of covers and original material that captures the texture and emotional directness of that era.
The album includes interpretations of songs by The Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Carole King, Barry Manilow, and Christopher Cross, alongside her own compositions. The U.S. tour that grew from it sold out its first leg — dates in Utah, Arizona, and Texas — and expanded to a second run with additional stops across the country. Sacramento is on that second leg.
What to Expect at the Show
Harriet performs with her full band, moving through the album’s material and stopping between songs to share the stories behind each one — why a particular track matters to her, the first time she heard it, what she set out to do in covering it. It is the kind of concert that works equally well for someone who grew up listening to AM radio and someone who encountered these artists later and finds themselves drawn to their directness.
The show is not a nostalgia revue in the passive sense. Harriet is a working singer-songwriter presenting an argument for what she thinks was best about a specific era of pop craftsmanship. The songs she chooses are not just crowd-pleasers — they are a coherent point of view.
The Crest Theatre on K Street is one of Sacramento’s best rooms for this kind of performance. The acoustics are built for a voice rather than volume, and the sightlines from almost anywhere in the house give you a direct line to the stage. For a show centered on a singer and her band, it is a good match.
The Details
- Date: Thursday, November 19, 2026
- Venue: The Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
- Doors: 7:00 PM
- Tickets: Available through Ticketmaster (official link from harrietsings.com)
- Parking: Street parking on and around K Street; the Downtown Sacramento Parking garage at 7th and K is a few blocks away
- Box office: The Crest box office accepts cash only on show nights; buy online in advance
Planning Your Evening
The Crest Theatre sits in the heart of downtown Sacramento. If you are making a full evening of it, the blocks between 10th and 15th on K Street have enough restaurants and bars to build a dinner around. Empress Tavern, the film-themed cocktail bar beneath the Crest itself, is worth arriving early for a drink before the show. It opens at 4:00 PM Tuesday through Sunday.
Harriet plays a relatively rare format — an intimate theater show built around a single voice and a live band, with space for storytelling between songs. That format requires a room that can hold a moment of quiet without it feeling like dead air. The Crest, with its 1,000-seat capacity and genuine architectural detail, handles that well.
If you are planning a bigger calendar of November shows in Sacramento, the month runs dense right through Thanksgiving. The Sacramento Holiday Events 2026 calendar has the broader picture. For something completely different at the same venue just two nights later, The Fab Four’s Beatles tribute lands at the Crest on November 21.
Bottom Line
Harriet plays the Crest Theatre in Sacramento for the first time on November 19, 2026. The Trying to Get the Feeling Again tour is a confident, well-reviewed production built around 1970s pop songwriting — covers and originals, performed by a singer whose voice suits the material. For anyone who cares about that era of music, this is the kind of show that is easy to miss and not easy to forget. Doors at 7:00 PM; buy in advance through Ticketmaster.
