Sunday, May 24 • 8:00 PM
Market Hall
Kate Voegele and Tyler Hilton come with the kind of résumés that read like a mid-2000s time capsule—but the point isn’t nostalgia. The point is they never stopped moving.
Voegele is an L.A.-based singer-songwriter, recording artist, and content creator who’s built a multi-lane career without losing the thread: the songs still come first. Many first met her as an actress on the CW hit One Tree Hill, but she’s also a painter and the business owner behind the blog and lifestyle company We The Dreamers. On the music side, she’s spent the last decade touring internationally—thousands of shows, the kind of road mileage that either burns you out or turns you into a professional truth-teller. She’s released four studio albums to date, selling more than 500,000 copies and stacking up millions of streams along the way. Lately, she’s been in release mode again: most recently dropping “The Best Part (French Version),” a collaboration with indie band Bien, and rolling out several singles with her band Your Future Ghost as they build toward a debut album expected this summer.
Hilton’s story runs on a parallel track—music, acting, and a knack for showing up in the right cultural moments. He portrayed Elvis Presley in Walk the Line, but for a lot of people he’ll always be Chris Keller from One Tree Hill, the scene-stealing musician character that turned into a cult favourite. Beyond the screen, he’s written and toured with heavy hitters—Taylor Swift, Lady A, Joe Cocker—while maintaining his own solo career. Born and raised in California, Hilton grew up in a family of working musicians whose orbit included names like Fleetwood Mac, George Harrison, and Donovan. He was performing early, got serious about songwriting at 14, and at 15 pulled off the kind of origin story you can’t fake: calling into L.A.’s KLOS radio station to win concert tickets, then casually blowing the hosts away with an on-air performance. The station made him a regular, helped kickstart his debut record, and that momentum eventually led to Warner Bros. Records signing him for his second album, The Tracks of Tyler Hilton, which produced two Top 40 singles.
Together, they represent that rare pop-cultural overlap where the TV credits are real, the songs are real, and the live chops are earned the hard way—one stage at a time.
