Clairo Opening Act 2026 — Who is the Support?

Who is opening for Clairo on the current tour

Current touring-cycle openers for Clairo have rotated by leg rather than locking a single support act for the entire routing — the project's booking pattern is consistent with its broader indie-circuit positioning, picking openers from the same singer-songwriter, bedroom-pop, and soul-adjacent indie tier as the headline material rather than from the streaming-pop or pop-radio circle. Recent and historic openers across cycles have included Oscar Lang, Hanni El Khatib, Sidney Gish, Helena Deland, Beabadoobee on earlier UK dates, and similar mid-cap indie artists drawn from the SXSW and Pitchfork-festival circle. The pattern across the cycle is a single opener for each headline theater date, a 30-to-40-minute support set starting roughly 30 to 45 minutes after doors with the headline going on around 75 to 90 minutes after doors. The European and UK legs typically rotate in regional support — local indie and singer-songwriter acts who fit the broader Fader Label and Sling-adjacent aesthetic the cycle is built around — and the smaller-market dates in the cycle's secondary cities sometimes carry no opener at all, with the headline set extending slightly to fill the runtime. What to expect from the support slot: a 30-to-40-minute set on the same end-stage configuration as the headline, a self-contained band or solo acoustic format rather than a backing-track DJ setup, an audience that gives the opener real attention because of the listening-room culture the broader Clairo cycle has cultivated, and a clear changeover window of 20 to 30 minutes between the support and the headline. One ticket covers both performers — there is no separate ticket for the support act, and the support act is included in the face value of every Clairo tour ticket. The confirmed opener for each date is typically listed on the official Ticketmaster, AXS, or DICE show page in the weeks before the stop; the live event listings above this block link directly to the show page where the support act, set times, and door times are confirmed for each date.

How to confirm the Clairo opener for your date

Support acts are added to a listing when the promoter supplies them, and they can differ from city to city. A listing that shows only Clairo's name does not prove there is no opener — check the seller listing and the venue's announcement for your date before planning around a support set.

A ticket normally covers the whole advertised bill for that event; the listed start time is the event start, not a confirmed opener or headliner time. Clairo tour page · Clairo setlist

About Clairo

Claire Elizabeth Cottrill was born August 18, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the northwestern suburbs of Boston. Her father is Geoff Cottrill, a former chief marketing officer at Converse and Music Choice; her mother, Allison Cottrill, works in fashion. The family environment was musical in the working-day sense — instruments in the house, a father with industry contacts, a willingness to encourage demos — and Claire started uploading lo-fi bedroom recordings to Bandcamp and SoundCloud under the name Clairo as early as 2014, when she was in middle school. The pivot song was Pretty Girl, recorded on a Casio keyboard and a webcam in August 2017 while she was a senior in high school, uploaded to YouTube as a single fixed-frame video with no edits and no production, and shared on a few aggregation accounts that picked up the clip the same week. Inside three months the video had crossed ten million views; inside six it was twenty million; by the time Cottrill arrived at Syracuse University for her freshman year in autumn 2017, a video clip recorded for fun had become the project's commercial launch. Label conversations followed almost immediately — she signed with Fader Label, the indie imprint attached to the Fader magazine and its A&R network, on terms that preserved the bedroom-recording workflow that had produced Pretty Girl in the first place. The Diary 001 EP in 2018 collected Flaming Hot Cheetos, Hello?, 4Ever and the early Bandcamp catalogue, and a touring band assembled around her for the first time. Immunity, the debut studio album, arrived in August 2019 — produced by Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) at his Los Angeles studio, recorded over a stretch of months with Danielle Haim on drums on several tracks, and built on real chamber-pop arrangements rather than the bedroom-pop palette of the EP. The single Bags became the project's defining song on streaming and on critic year-end lists; the album was reviewed warmly across Pitchfork, NME, and the major weeklies, and the touring footprint that followed pushed the project from the 500-cap club tier into the 1,500-to-2,500-cap mid-size theater tier inside a year. Sling, the second album, arrived in July 2021 — produced this time by Jack Antonoff at his Allaire studio in the Catskills with Cottrill co-writing and co-producing every track, pulling the project further toward acoustic singer-songwriter and 1970s soft-rock palettes. The record carried no obvious single, was reviewed as a deliberate retreat from the streaming economy, and pushed the touring tier into 3,000-to-5,000-cap theaters (Radio City Music Hall, the Greek in Berkeley, the Beacon Theatre) on the supporting tour. Charm, the third album, arrived in July 2024 — produced with Leon Michels of El Michels Affair, the New York-based instrumentalist behind the Daptone soul-funk reissue circle, and pulled the project toward a Rhodes-and-analog-synth late-1970s soul-jazz palette with Sexy to Someone as the closest thing to a radio single and Juna as the album-cycle's mid-set breakout. She remains signed to Fader Label in the United States and to Pop Wig and similar indie partners in international territories, remains based in New York City, and continues to operate the project with a long-time core band — keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, occasional horn player — that has played most of the touring cycles since Immunity.

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