Lindsey Stirling 2012–2013 Tour

Stirling's first tour lasted almost a year with 128 dates around North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The shows were a success in that 46 dates were sold out, and on Ticketmaster.com the audience gave a rating to the tour of 4.8 out of 5 stars.

The Orange County Register lamented that her racial insensitivity ruined her performance in Anaheim.

It specifically criticized Stirling's speech linking her cover of Rihanna's "We Found Love" with a corporate-sponsored international volunteering tour in Kenya, which perpetuated racist and colonialist attitudes toward its citizens.

That review also criticized her misleading interpretation of Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird", which inspired Stirling's "Song of the Caged Bird", when she failed to mention the history of anti-Black racism in the U.S., a core part of the poem's meaning.