Haley Heynderickx makes the kind of music that sounds like it grew out of the ground. The Portland-based folk artist, whose debut I Need to Start a Garden announced one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, comes to Asbury Hall at Babeville in Buffalo on April 12, 2026.
Heynderickx writes songs that are at once deeply personal and wildly alive. Her guitar work — fingerpicked and rhythmically bold — provides the engine for vocals that can shift from a whisper to something almost feral in the span of a single verse. It’s folk music, yes, but filtered through a sensibility that owes as much to the raw immediacy of punk as it does to any traditional lineage.
Since breaking through with that debut, Heynderickx has built her reputation primarily through live performance. Her shows are events — intimate, emotionally direct, and utterly committed. She is the rare artist who sounds even more powerful in person than on record, which is saying something given how good the records are.
Asbury Hall, housed inside the stunning former church that is Babeville, offers the kind of reverent acoustics and visual grandeur that elevate an already remarkable performer. The room was practically designed for an artist like Heynderickx — one whose music rewards close listening and full attention.
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