Conan Gray Opening Act 2026 — Who is the Support?

Who is opening for Conan Gray on the Found Heaven World Tour

Found Heaven World Tour openers have rotated by leg and by date rather than locking a single support act for the entire global cycle. Recent North American legs have carried Maisie Peters in the opening slot across multiple stretches — the British alt-pop singer-songwriter signed to Gingerbread Man Records (the Ed Sheeran-founded imprint), who broke through on her own headlining cycle and slots cleanly into the Conan Gray audience's adjacent alt-pop and confessional-songwriter tastes — and Hemlocke Springs (the Black indie-pop artist whose Girlfriend went viral on TikTok in 2022) on selected dates as the bedroom-pop adjacent pairing. The pattern across the cycle has been a single primary opener for most arena and amphitheatre dates and occasionally two openers on the larger amphitheatre runs, with a 30-to-45-minute support set typically starting 30 to 45 minutes after doors and the headline going on around 75 to 90 minutes after doors. The European and UK legs have rotated in regional support — local mid-cap alt-pop and indie-pop artists who fit the broader Conan Gray aesthetic — and the Australian and Asian legs typically swap to territory-specific support pulled from the same circuit. Conan Gray's opener-selection pattern has been consistent across cycles: he picks support acts from the alt-pop, bedroom-pop, and confessional-singer-songwriter tier rather than commercially-aligned chart-pop acts, with a strong preference for women, non-binary artists, and queer-coded acts whose audience overlap with his own. Historic Conan Gray openers across previous cycles have included Maisie Peters, Hemlocke Springs, beabadoobee, Tessa Violet, Audrey Mika, and Mxmtoon on selected legs. What to expect from the support slot: a 30-to-45-minute set on a smaller riser at the front of the production, an attentive audience that arrives early because of the listening-room culture the broader Conan Gray cycle has cultivated, and a clear changeover window of 30 to 45 minutes between the support and the headline. One ticket covers all performers — there is no separate ticket for the support act, and the support is included in the face value of every Found Heaven World Tour ticket. The confirmed opener for each tour date is listed on the official Ticketmaster, AXS, or See Tickets show page in the weeks before the stop, usually 4 to 8 weeks ahead.

How Conan Gray Tour Openers Get Announced

Most Conan Graytour openers aren't named when tickets go on sale. The supporting act is locked in per-region (sometimes per-show) and surfaces on the official Ticketmaster show page in the weeks before each stop. Click any date above to see whether the opener is confirmed yet — Catch Movement pulls live show pages daily, so the listed support act updates as soon as Ticketmaster does.

For headliners at Conan Gray's scale, expect a single opener doing a 30 to 45 minute set, sometimes with a regional rotation (a Canadian opener for CA dates, a US opener for the American leg). The opener slot doesn't require a separate ticket — your Conan Gray ticket covers the full show.

How to Find the Confirmed Conan Gray Opener for Your City

1. Pick your city from the tour-date list above.
2. Click through to that show's Ticketmaster page.
3. Check the listing — confirmed openers appear under the headline name once added.
4. Watch for updates — openers are sometimes added 2 to 4 weeks out, so check back if it's still TBA.

Do I Need a Separate Ticket for the Opener?

No. The Conan Gray ticket you buy from Ticketmaster covers the entire show — opener + headliner — at the same venue, same night. Doors usually open 60 to 90 minutes before the advertised start time; the opener typically performs first, with a 20 to 30 minute changeover before Conan Gray takes the stage.

Conan Gray Opening Act — FAQ

About Conan Gray

Conan Lee Gray was born December 5, 1998, in Lemon Grove, California, to a mixed Irish-American and Japanese-American family, and moved frequently as a child — between California, Hiroshima in Japan, and eventually Georgetown, Texas, where he settled through middle school and high school. The small-town Texas years became the autobiographical bedrock of his songwriting: the suburban malls, the quiet streets, the feeling of being a queer teenager in a conservative community that he would later draw on directly in Crush Culture, Idle Town, and the broader Sunset Season aesthetic. He started a YouTube channel in 2013, initially uploading vlogs and acoustic covers, gradually shifting toward original songwriting as his audience grew. The pivot point was Idle Town, a self-produced acoustic track he uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud in March 2017 while he was still in high school; the song accumulated millions of plays inside the year and brought major-label attention from Republic Records, which signed him in 2018 ahead of his enrolment at UCLA. He attended UCLA briefly before pausing his studies to focus on music full-time. The Sunset Season EP arrived in November 2018 and collected the early YouTube-era material — Idle Town, Generation Why, Crush Culture, Greek God — into a polished six-song release that worked as a thesis statement for the project: bedroom-acoustic core, slick pop production around the edges, queer-coded longing throughout. Kid Krow, his full-length debut, arrived in March 2020 — the same week the world went into pandemic lockdown — and became one of the era's defining streaming-pop releases on the back of Heather, the third single, which slow-burned through 2020 into a TikTok-driven viral moment that pushed it onto the Billboard Hot 100 and made it one of the most-streamed pop songs of the year. Maniac, the album opener, lifted the cycle into pop-radio territory; the record itself debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, the highest debut for a male artist's first full-length on Republic in over a decade. Superache in June 2022 pushed the project into bigger productions and more anthemic choruses — Memories worked as the lead single, Disaster and Yours filled out the streaming-pop singles run, and the album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200. The Superache World Tour ran across 2022 and 2023, scaling from clubs and ballrooms into proper theatre and amphitheatre rooms. Found Heaven in April 2024 represented the most significant sonic pivot of his career: a full synth-pop and 1980s-leaning record co-produced with Greg Kurstin (the Adele and Sia collaborator), pulling from Cyndi Lauper, the Cure, and the broader 1980s Hi-NRG and new-wave palette. Lonely Dancers, Never Ending Song, and the title track Found Heaven worked as the album's defining singles. The Found Heaven World Tour scaled the live operation into amphitheatre and arena-tier rooms across North America, the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He remains Republic Records, remains publicly out as queer (he came out in interviews around the Superache cycle, though his songwriting had always read as queer-coded to the audience that arrived early), and remains based in Los Angeles. He is also a published novelist — his debut Y/A novel arrived in 2024 alongside the Found Heaven album cycle.

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