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Known for her distinctive voice and singing style, "(Valerie June's) every quiver bespeaks emotional honesty" (New Yorker). As a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and three-time Americana Music Honors and Awards nominee, June weaves fresh medicinal downloads of love, sweetness, goodness, and joy with songs that have flowed through her for years. An author, poet, certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor, June honorably served as a Turnaround artist working with students for the President's Committee for the Arts and Humanities and continues serving through The Kennedy Center. She has recorded three best-selling solo albums and written songs for legendary artists such as Mavis Staples and The Blind Boys of Alabama. She has been praised by Bob Dylan and shared the stage with myriad artists including John Prine, Norah Jones, Tyler Childers, Dinosaur Jr., Booker T. Jones, M. Ward, Robert Plant, Meshell Ndegeocello, Avett Brothers, Dave Matthews, Angelique Kidjo, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, and Elvis Costello. Her albums have been featured by numerous publications such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, NPR Music, Vogue, Elle, Mojo, Uncut, and many others, and she’s made television appearances on The Tonight Show, CBS Saturday Morning, PBS, Austin City Limits, BBC, and many more. She splits her time between Tennessee and New York when she's not touring.

Bic Runga is one of New Zealand’s most treasured musicians, a songwriter and performer whose voice is woven into the soundtrack of Kiwi life. Known for her crystalline vocals and timeless melodies, she has spent more than two decades creating songs that feel both intimate and universal. Her 1997 debut album, ‘Drive’, changed the face of New Zealand pop. Songs like ‘Sway’ and ‘Drive’ captured complex emotions with simplicity and grace. The album went multi-platinum at home, and ‘Sway’ found its way onto Hollywood film soundtracks, carrying her songs far beyond Aotearoa. The youngest inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, Bic’s influence can be heard in a new generation of New Zealand musicians who grew up with her songs on the radio and saw in her a model of artistic independence. In 2026, she returns with a new album ‘Red Sunset’, recorded in Paris in the winter of 2025. Bic’s gift has always been her ability to turn personal truths into shares experiences, inviting listeners into her gentle, thoughtful, and beautifully human world. Her first single, ‘It’s Like Summertime’, embodies a sense of nostalgia and comfort, recalling a carefree past while also imagining a hopeful future.

In 2021, the world watched the 'Epilogue'. But what if that wasn't the end? After a string of packed out shows that left dancefloors sweating, Daft Punkz - the first and only full live band tribute to the masters of electronic music are back for their biggest tour yet: Epilogue '26. This isn't a DJ set. This is the sound, the look, and the PARTY, transported to an alternate reality where Daft Punk never broke up. Prepare to lose yourself to dance as a band of world-class session musician legends perform a meticulously crafted set spanning the entire catalogue, from the raw beats of Homework all the way to the timeless disco of Random Access Memories. Featuring the iconic helmets, an immersive video backdrop, and the chest-thumping, visually spectacular experience of a live club night, this is your chance to experience this legendary music in unrivalled accuracy and detail. Leaving countless fans blown away, this live band performance does not seem possible until it is witnessed. The robots may be gone, but the music is immortal. It's Daft Punkz, and it's Human After All.

Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs blends the poetic sensibilities of folk with the rough edges of indie rock. Her career has seen her collaborate with luminaries such as kd lang, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Jim James, The Decemberists, Bill Frisell and many more. 2026 sees Laura return with her new album, Temple Songs— her first in four years and the first she has written, recorded, arranged, produced and performed entirely on her own. It captures a songwriter in peak form. The album is intimate, dreamy, brave and quietly defiant, built around Veirs’ intricate fingerstyle nylon-string guitar, vulnerable vocals and bold electric guitar embellishments. The new songs lend themselves perfectly to being performed live in a stripped-back form, with Laura accompanied only by Karl Blau on electric guitar. Karl Blau will also support. The croon of Karl Blau’s voice hits the ear like baritone Hazelwood, Cohen or Cave, especially in his albums since he found his “country voice” in the past 10 years. Blau’s staggering number of solo albums added up to 54 for the ironically entitled Introducing album, his first on London’s Bella Union in 2016, and his first foray into singing country. Not afraid to keep expanding his frontier, 2025 saw Blau’s Vultures of Love – a loose homage to psychedelia – come out on eccentric Los Angeles label Otherly Love.