Sierra Ferrell Brings Trail Of Flowers to Paris’ Le Trianon for a Belle Époque Debut

Written and Captured By | Christophe Puechavic

Sierra Ferrell played her first-ever show in France on June 29, 2026, bringing her Heavy Petal Tour to Le Trianon in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. The West Virginia-born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist shaped her sound on the road, moving between truck stops, makeshift stages, and the streets of New Orleans before eventually settling in Nashville. Since then, she has become one of the defining voices in modern Americana, threading old-time country, folk, and swing through a repertoire steeped in bluegrass tradition.

Le Trianon, a Belle Époque theatre built in 1894 at the foot of Montmartre, seats around a thousand—an intimate room for an artist whose profile has grown considerably since her last studio release.

The show centered on 2024’s Trail of Flowers (Rounder Records), recorded with producer Eddie Spear and featuring additional production by Gary Paczosa. The album is built on vivid, narrative songwriting that moves between honky-tonk, ballads, and acoustic reels. Onstage, that world came through in the staging itself: yellow roses in jam-jar vases and a quilted, patchwork-covered table anchored the front of the stage, echoing the album’s title and cover art, while Ferrell performed in a striped, ruffled dress with a floral crown. Her touring band—fiddle, upright bass, pedal steel, and guitar—built a rich, textured backing that let her voice and songwriting take centre stage.

The album has done much of the heavy lifting in Ferrell’s rise: it earned her Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the Americana Honors & Awards, as well as four Grammy Awards—for Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Performance, Best Americana Performance, and Best American Roots Song. She has also collaborated with artists including Margo Price, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Post Malone.

In the room, Le Trianon’s velvet-and-balcony setting suited the material well—a theatre built for intimacy rather than spectacle, allowing the band’s interplay to carry the night. The opening act warmed up a crowd that arrived ready to listen, and by the time Ferrell hit her stride, the room felt fully hers. A confident, well-earned first Paris performance.