Laura Veirs

On 13 September 2026 at Saint Luke's & The Winged Ox in Glasgow, Laura Veirs brings her intimate, finely drawn songs to the stage. Since the late 1990s, the Portland-based American singer-songwriter has traced a singular path between folk, baroque folk and alt-country, favoring understated arrangements, winding melodies and lyrics with a literary tilt. Her voice and guitar sit at the core, leaving space for details to surface rather than piling on ornament.

Her catalogue maps that trajectory with clarity: from the early self-titled debut and The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae through the Nonesuch years of Carbon Glacier, Year of Meteors and Saltbreakers, then back to independence with July Flame, Warp & Weft, The Lookout, My Echo, Found Light and Phone Orphans. She has also explored collaboration with the trio case/lang/veirs alongside Neko Case and k.d. lang, a chapter that sharpened her ear for harmony and interplay.

In Glasgow, expect a set that threads older gems with recent material, built around precise fingerpicking, unshowy dynamics and songs that let images and stories breathe. No frills, just the craft of a writer who knows how to make small shifts in harmony and rhythm carry the weight of a whole scene.