Women That Rock Announces 2026 Summer Mini-Tour Featuring Abby Holliday and Charli Adams

Andie Aronow, the founder of Women That Rock, has announced a five‑city mini‑tour that will run from August 7 to August 15, 2026. The tour will feature singer‑songwriter Abby Holliday and indie pop artist Charli Adams and will begin in Washington, D.C., before stopping in Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago and Nashville.

Women That Rock began in 2018 as an Instagram page that grew into a music discovery platform and concert series. The organization’s mission is to amplify the voices of femme talent in person and online. The page now has 65,000 followers, and the live component has been largely held in New York. The summer tour marks the first time the group will travel outside the city.

Aronow cites data from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, a research arm of the University of Southern California, to explain why the tour is necessary. According to the Initiative, women accounted for 37 % of artists on Billboard’s Year‑End Hot 100 chart, 18.9 % of songwriters and 5.9 % of producers on those hits. The Initiative also reports that more than 93 % of charting songs were created without a single woman producer. Aronow says these figures demonstrate that the industry still has a long way to go.

Before launching Women That Rock, Aronow worked as a performer and later held internships at the Recording Academy, Geffen Records and Mom + Pop Music. She now runs the organization from her Brooklyn apartment while teaching at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She says the organization started as a “happy accident” that grew from a personal interest in promoting artists she admired.

Finding performers for the tour involves a mix of social‑media submissions, personal referrals and industry contacts. Aronow says she booked Holliday after seeing her music on a local platform and that she is a “fangirl.” The tour’s biggest hurdle, she notes, is securing brand sponsorship. While the group has raised $30,000 for a single SXSW show in the past, outreach to hundreds of brands for the tour has largely resulted in rejections. The only major sponsor on board is TomboyX, a gender‑queer‑affirming apparel brand.

In interviews, Aronow has repeatedly said that the music business still needs more women in all roles. She advocates hiring more women as producers, engineers and executives, and she calls for training programs that specifically target women who want to learn production. She also stresses the importance of intersectionality, noting that Women That Rock includes non‑binary and trans women, people of color and other marginalized groups.

Women That Rock’s mini‑tour is a concrete step toward giving independent female artists a platform. The organization encourages interested musicians to DM the Women That Rock Instagram account or email thewomenthatrock@gmail.com for a feature. Tour dates and additional information are posted on the group’s Linktree.

The tour is underway, and Women That Rock continues to expand its reach. The organization’s next steps include seeking additional sponsors, adding more cities to the tour and building out training resources for women in music production and songwriting.