Looking for a gig where you can let loose after a long week at work? Or do you require a fresh idea for a weekend date with that special someone in your life? With a variety of live music events already added to the 2026 calendar, you can rest assured that you will find something that suits your needs.
If you are not sure where to start looking, here is a guide to concerts, gigs, festivals, and events featuring homegrown musicians and artists that you can catch on our sunny island this year.
UPCOMING GIGS
Candlelight Concerts
When: Various dates
Where: Various venues
Tickets: More information is available here
Fever's celebrated Candlelight Concerts series is back in 2025 and music lovers can expect to be mesmerised by classical renditions of tunes from beloved films, hits from some of the biggest names from the international music scene, and more. This year is all about tributes to legendary music soundtracks in movies and dramas by the likes of Hans Zimmer, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran & more.
Lion City Jazz Festival 2026
When: 28 February - 28 March 2026, various timings
Where: Various venues, more information here
Tickets: $35 - $88, available here
Jazz fans, mark your calendars — the Lion City Jazz Festival 2026 expands into a month-long celebration of concerts, family-friendly productions, fringe showcases, and masterclasses across Singapore. Curated by Jeremy Monteiro, the festival spotlights homegrown excellence, opening with Singaporeana – Our Sound, Our Stories, directed by Chok Kerong and featuring beloved Singaporean voices including Sezairi, Joanna Dong, Alemay Fernandez, weish, Dru Chen, Sushma Soma, Tim De Cotta, and Namie Rasman in a genre-blurring tribute to our multiracial sound. Families can catch The Kid Who Found the Groove, with new music by Tan Weixiang, while the free Fringe Concerts at *SCAPE shine a light on rising and established local acts. The festival culminates in The Brecker Brothers & Beyond, where local mentors Rit Xu, Sean Hong Wei, and Ben Poh share the stage with international jazz greats.
Everything Is Now, Now Is Everything
When: 27 March 2026, 7:30PM & 9PM
Where: DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre at Esplanade
Tickets: Free admission
Inch. has been a wallflower, an island hermit, an Antarctic wanderer, and now—someone building an AI to love her. This show moves through all of it. Songs and stories from across a life that refused to stay in one place. Songs, readings, and the question underneath: who do we become when no one's watching? And who's watching now?
EMONIGHTMARES II
When: 28 March 2026, 7:30PM
Where: Foochow Building
Tickets: $29, available here
Get ready for a night of beloved high-energy originals to crowd favourite emo anthems, where the chaos, the feels, and the pit is brought back to life. EMONIGHTMARES II features some of Singapore's most talented bands playing as your favourite bands for one night only. The bill features Last Minute as My Chemical Romance, LUCKYYOU as Paramore, DUKES. as Linkin Park, and 10pm Noise Complaint as All Time Low!
Songwriting for Hope – Hear Our Voices
When: 31 March 2026, 6:45PM & 7:45PM
Where: Esplanade Concourse
Tickets: Free admission
Songwriting for Hope is a community engagement programme by Esplanade –Theatres on the Bay, in partnership with Diamonds On The Street. The programme seeks to provide vulnerable youths with an opportunity for deeper engagement through songwriting as a form of creative expression. Through a series of workshops, participants learn skills of song craft, with the aim of turning their crises into hope. The performance is a showcase of some of the youths’ songs and some originals composed by the performers themselves. The songs aim to inspire resilience and the determination to never let challenges define one’s path.
Every First Vision Goes
When: 3 April 2026, 6:45PM
Where: Sunroom Studios
Tickets: $25, available here
infinite feedback’s debut show unites four acts steeped in texture and catharsis. Gnaw craft glowing power-pop collages rooted in ’90s alt-rock fuzz and hypergaze rushes. elo elo brings effervescent experimental pop vulnerability from her shimmering debut I Can’t Find My Head, while freereina! channel digital melancholia into maximalist indie rock that hits like a piercing winter blue. Completing the bill, Vegtable bring their minimalist, lo-fi, meditative brand of sadcore from their excellent album Through the Motions to the stage.
IT WAS A GOOD DAY VOL. 2
When: 3 April 2026, 7PM
Where: ROOM 526
Tickets: $25, at the door
Presented by Blacklisted Productions, the second edition of IT WAS A GOOD DAY feature four of Singapore's fastest rising rappers for an intimate Good Friday rap show. The bill includes Tengy, San The Wordsmith, Slick Bobby and MUDFACE.
ARTBOX CAMP 2026
When: 3-5 April & 10-12 April 2026, 12PM
Where: Singapore Expo Hall 3
Tickets: $5 - $8, available here
ARTBOX CAMP 2026 returns as a large-scale creative playground that brings together art, design, food, lifestyle, retail, and community experiences from across the region. For music fans, the action centres on the ARTBOX Stage, which will host live performances throughout the festival, delivering a rotating mix of local talent and international influences. Beyond the stage, ARTBOX CAMP expands into a full sensory experience, featuring an exclusive creative showcase by Korean design powerhouse Wiggle Wiggle, over 250 independent brands and F&B vendors, immersive installations, pop-up encounters, gaming zones, and family-friendly spaces — all framed as a giant “creative camp” built for discovery, experimentation, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
Traversing
When: 11 April 2026, 7:30PM
Where: Victoria Concert Hall
Tickets: $20 - $45, available here
Ding Yi Music Company opens its new season with Traversing, a cross-cultural concert hbringing together Singaporean and international musicians in a dynamic exchange of musical traditions. Led by Chief Artistic Mentor Tsung Yeh, the programme journeys across East and West through newly commissioned works and reimagined classics, including pieces inspired by Celtic folk music, Singapore’s Merlion, and Chinese mythology. Featuring standout performances by guzheng soloist Yvonne Tay and pianist Ning An, the concert reflects Ding Yi’s ongoing mission to push the boundaries of contemporary Chinese chamber music while spotlighting Singapore’s role in a global musical dialogue.
Spell & Iron 2026
When: 11-12 April 2026, 7:45PM
Where: *SCAPE The Ground Theatre
Tickets: $36 - $48, available here
Spell & Iron 2026 brings together fantasy culture, tabletop gaming, medieval-inspired aesthetics, and live music into a two-day community event. Alongside the many activities, vendors, and demonstration on offer, their music programming features a stellar line up framed around two contrasting themes — one day for “feels” and another for “steel”. Bands on the bill include Blush, freereina!, Thaarmin, and Haldi Honey on 11 April, followed by Chaosphere, Mystique, Plaguebearer, Iron Gaze (Malaysia), and Witchseeker on 12 April.
Kahchun Wong's Pictures at an Exhibition
When: 24 April 2026, 7:30PM
Where: Esplanade Concert Hall
Tickets: $10.50 - $100, available here
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra is joined by musicians of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra as Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong presents his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for symphony orchestra with five traditional Chinese instruments, the dizi (笛子 bamboo flute), erhu (胡琴二胡 two-string fiddle), yangqin (扬琴 hammered dulcimer), pipa (琵琶 Chinese lute) and percussion. This impressive programme also features Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung’s strikingly imposing Water Rings, showcasing his multi-textured synthesis of Cambodian musical tradition and symphony orchestra to grand effect. And what better way to pair this than with the SSO’s signature piece, Debussy’s evocation of the sea, La Mer.
Let It Be Lovely – Timeless Classics from The Beatles & Stevie Wonder
When: 4 May 2026, 10:30AM & 3PM
Where: Esplanade Recital Studio
Tickets: $15 - $21, available here
This concert brings together Bennett Bay and Shak’thiya in a stellar collaboration, celebrating classics from luminaries such as The Beatles and Stevie Wonder. Filled with nostalgic favourites including 'Here Comes the Sun', 'Sir Duke', 'Twist and Shout', 'Superstition', and more, the show invites you to dance, sing and share the joy with those around you. Bring your dancing shoes and perhaps, some tissues.
Cultural Extravaganza 2026
When: 7 May - 7 June 2026, various times
Where: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore Chinese Orchestra Concert Hall
Tickets: various prices, available here
Cultural Extravaganza 2026 returns with a vibrant, multi-genre lineup spotlighting the richness of Singapore Chinese arts—led by a strong and dynamic music programme. Audiences can look forward to cross-disciplinary highlights like The Cycle of Grace, a sweeping fusion of live music and dance by The TENG Ensemble, as well as Titan Sculptors, a bold orchestral showcase pairing new compositions with visual art. Concertgoers can also dive into Reunion 4.0, featuring a diverse repertoire from the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra, alongside crowd-friendly showcases like TGIF Music Station (CE Edition) and Happy Sing-Along (CE Edition), which bring together artists across styles for fresh collaborations and live performances. Blending tradition with contemporary sounds, the festival’s music offerings anchor a month-long celebration of culture through immersive, genre-spanning experiences.
Part 3 of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas by Mikkel Myer Lee
When: 23 May 2026, 7:30PM
Where: Esplanade Concert Hall
Tickets: $20 - $120, available here
Piano prodigy Mikkel Myer Lee is set to mark a major milestone in his ambitious Beethoven journey with the third instalment of his Complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle. Returning for his only Singapore performance this year, the young virtuoso will perform four iconic works — Piano Sonata No. 2, No. 20, No. 26 ‘Les Adieux’, and the formidable No. 23 ‘Appassionata’ — as part of his long-term eight-part project to publicly present all 32 Beethoven sonatas. Prepare for an evening of passion, depth, and timeless musical storytelling.
Lush Life
When: 29-30 May 2026, 8PM
Where: Victoria Theatre
Tickets: $48 - $88, available here
Two of Singapore's most iconic and contrasting voices share one stage in a groundbreaking new work. Helmed by internationally acclaimed Singapore director Ong Keng Sen known for his distinct aesthetic in creating documentary performance through collaboration with his performers and extensive research, Lush Life is an intimate documentary piece that weaves the lives, artistry and connections between the sublime, audiophile-grade jazz of songbird Jacintha and the bohemian spirit of pop icon Dick Lee. Through personal narratives, archival traces and live music, this distilled work paints a dual portrait of artistic and life pursuits. Sink into the lush world of Jacintha's music and Lee's vibrant classics, revealed as chapters in their lives. Lush Life is a conversation across styles and generations, a meditation on what it means to live a creative life in its most resonant form.
That Incredible Gig In May
When: 30 May 2026, 6PM
Where: Wire Entertainment Live House
Tickets: $19.90, available here
Organisers Wicked Productions have put together an incredible gig in May simply called... That Incredible Gig In May! The stacked lineup includes local faves suc as rathmock, Tariot, MAO.A, Saving Medusa, Cakar and Mantra.
Ma mère l’Oye: SNYO with Singapore Ballet
When: 12-13 June 2026, 7:30PM
Where: Esplanade Concert Hall
Tickets: $20 - $50, available here
Following their well-received 2023 collaboration, the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) and Singapore Ballet reunite for Ma mère l’Oye: SNYO with Singapore Ballet. They jointly present the ballet piece titled Ravel Vignettes, choreographed by three of Singapore Ballet’s dancers and performed to Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose and Schubert’s Second Symphony, the latter choreographed by the legendary Choo-San Goh. Music Director Joshua Tan also conducts the SNYO for the concert opener, Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture.
Singapore International Piano Festival 2026
When: 2-5 July 2026, various times
Where: Victoria Concert Hall & Play Den, The Arts House at The Old Parliament
Tickets: $28 - $88, available here
Presented by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the Singapore International Piano Festival (SIPF) returns for its 32nd edition under new Artistic Director Albert Tiu. With the theme “The Pianist, Composer and Improviser”, the festival spotlights artists who perform across all three roles through six recitals, a masterclass, and two talks. Highlights include new late-night recitals at Play Den, where Singaporean pianists Churen Li (2 July, 10PM) and Jonathan Shin (3 July, 10PM) take the stage. Li’s Echoes and Refractions blends her own compositions with works by Mozart, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, while Shin’s Restless Natures features world premieres by himself and Nathaniel Parks alongside music by Andres, Boulanger and Muhly.
