A late-set appearance at the Rose Bowl turned into a show of mutual respect between two songwriters whose audiences have overlapped without the pairing feeling forced.
Chappell Roan joined Noah Kahan late into his Rose Bowl set Saturday, turning a stop on The Great Divide Tour into a brief handoff between two artists who occupy adjacent corners of the current songwriting landscape.
Kahan brought Roan out during a 27-song set in Pasadena to perform “California,” the track from her 2023 debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. He told the crowd it was the first song he ever heard by her, and “the reason I fell in love with her.”
Roan thanked the audience, then returned the respect. “Noah always stands up for me,” she said. “He’s a good person, for real.”
“I’m just really proud of her and grateful that she would come sing with me,” Kahan added.
The appearance sat inside a busy stretch for both. Kahan continues The Great Divide Tour Monday at Petco Park in San Diego. Roan is set to perform at Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival on August 29 and recently announced an October fundraiser for The Midwest Princess Project, her nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth.
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