Neko Case at The Sheen Center: 2026

For over two decades, Neko Case has made magic through song, reflecting upon joy and heartbreak with ferocity and defiance. She explores the angles of love in myriad ways.

She's been especially busy over the last few years through her work with The New Pornographers and continued development and composition of a musical adaptation of 1991's"Thelma & Louise" with the film's screenwriter, Calli Khouri (a project that Case began a decade ago).

Notably, Case also published a memoir in 2025, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, which recounted her challenging childhood and became a New York Times bestseller.

Coinciding with that book last year came Case's eighth studio album, Neon Grey Midnight Green, which she also produced and recorded in her home studio in Vermont.  It’s a bold, imaginative and stirring album: these songs certainly have teeth. Case takes on themes of grief, love, and the natural world in her lyrics, with music that rides those tides, including a a swelling string section through Denver's PlainSong Chamber Orchestra.

Although Neko didn't have the orchestra with her for this FUV Marquee concert at the Sheen Center, she did talk about the orchestra in our interview, and why she wanted to highlight the value of humans making music together in a room. 

For her nine-song set, which included three songs from Neon Grey Midnight Green —  "Rusty Mountain," "Louise" and "Wreck" — Neko was accompanied by her band: guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Andrew McKeag, guitarist and vocalist Nora O'Connor-Kean drummer Kyle Crane, and keyboardist Adam Schatz.

[Recorded: 9/29/26. Engineered by Jim O'Hara, produced by Meghan Suma. Videographers: Olivia Iannaccone and Adithi Vimalanathan.]