Paardcafé: Leading Ladies

Leading Ladies is an evening for and by female artists. We celebrate independent women in music with a genre-free lineup: from band to acoustic, always women-first. For International Women's Day, the Leading Ladies are taking over the PAARD Café. Come support your girls!

FIERE is a distinctive Dutch indie-folk artist whose music blends vulnerability and strength. Her lyrics speak unfilteredly about the search for self and the all-consuming desire to be seen. Every line resonates with the dynamics of her band, with strings amplifying the emotion.

Post Ella 's alternative electronic pop draws you in through stories of desperate control, derealization, and the fear of losing everything. Propelled by hard-hitting beats and feverish synths, the listener is transported into the band's decaying world.

Inspired by Massive Attack, Björk and FKA twigs, but also the film art of makers such as Charlie Kaufman and Andrzej Żuławski, the band carefully takes their audience by the hand through the ethereal synth and vocal melodies that give each song a narrative.

If you've ever had your heart broken, screamed in your car in the middle of the night, or felt like no one really gets it, High On Chai does.

Led by the unashamedly daring Cheyenne Howell, High On Chai serves up a sonic rush of pop-rock, synth-pop with bite, and vocals that punch you in the face in the best way. Think Paramore and Olivia Rodrigo sharing a chai martini: energetic, fierce, and a little bit sassy. In 2024, High On Chai made a name for themselves: from a fiery debut EP to opening for modernlove and a striking performance on RTL4's The Headliner.