Friday, June 19th 2026
Gabrielle Kwarteng, one of the most in-demand names on the festival circuit, will open the first night of Apgrade Weekend with a contemporary interpretation of club music rooted in the rich legacy of American house.
Shaped by the musical culture of New York, where she grew up, and further refined in Berlin, Kwarteng has developed a distinctive sound language that is dynamic and genre-fluid. Her sets move between house foundations, acid textures, techno pressure, and more contemporary hybrid forms that resist fixed categorization.
In an era of everything at once, Kwarteng weaves stories for the dancefloor that often look to the past, but always focus on possible futures.
