Stewart Copeland Brings 34-City Spoken-Word Tour to Carmel in 2026

Stewart Copeland, founding drummer of The Police, has announced a 2026 summer spoken-word tour spanning 34 cities across the United States, and Carmel, Indiana is on the itinerary. The show lands at The Tarkington at Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 2, making it one of the Midwest anchor dates before the tour closes out on the East Coast.

Titled "Have I Said Too Much: The Police, Hollywood and Other Adventures," the show promises a 90-minute "evening of conversation with photos, videos, and a Q&A," giving drummers and Police fans a chance to hear Copeland narrate his own story with rarely seen multimedia. It is his first North American spoken-word tour, though the format itself is not new territory: Copeland has taken the "Have I Said Too Much" presentation through the UK, Australia, and New Zealand in prior years.

The band whose stories Copeland will be recounting needs little introduction. The Police formed in 1977, and the trek stops in major cities including Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, and Nashville. Copeland and bandmates Sting and Andy Summers built one of rock's most distinctive rhythmic identities, driven by Copeland's trademark reggae-inflected ghost notes and explosive open hi-hat work. The group sent four consecutive albums to No. 1, earned five Grammy Awards, and sold 75 million records worldwide. Their 2007 reunion tour was the highest-grossing outing of that year.

Beyond the kit, Copeland's career arc covers territory that even dedicated fans may not fully know. His composer credits include the soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola's "Rumblefish" and Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," and his solo output spans opera, ballet, chamber music, and world music. He covered his time with The Police in his 2009 memoir "Strange Things Happen," followed by the 2021 songbook "Drumming in the Police & Beyond," and more recently shared what he called a "truest account" of the band's early days with his 2023 book "Police Diaries." The spoken-word format lets all of that material breathe in real time, with audience questions shaping where the evening goes.

The tour will have him visiting 34 cities, opening June 3 in Fort Lauderdale at the Amaturo Theatre and wrapping Aug. 7 at The Beacon Theatre in Hopewell, Virginia. The Carmel date on Aug. 2 follows a run through Grand Rapids, Michigan, and sits one night before a Nashville stop at City Winery. The Tarkington performance is part of the venue's 2026-27 Center Presents Season, which will be fully unveiled in May.

Tickets for the Carmel show start at $35 and are available through thecenterpresents.org, by phone at 317-843-3800, or in person at the Allied Solutions Center Box Office at 1 Carter Green. The full national tour schedule is available at StewartCopeland.net.