Bangles Co-Founder Susanna Hoffs to Lead VersoFest 2026 in Special Storytellers Event

Westport, CT  - Susanna Hoffs, co-founder of the Bangles, will be one of the lead acts for VersoFest 2026, appearing alongside award-winning journalist and rock memoirist Alisyn Camerota.

VersoFest is The Westport Library’s annual music and media conference and festival where knowledge is shared and inspiration is discovered. Hoffs’ appearance is one of two events being held in advance of the main VersoFest weekend, March 26-29, along with a February 27 concert by the rising rock band The Thing.

This year’s festival includes a conversation with folk-rock legend Ani DiFranco (March 26), a concert performance by Wyclef Jean (March 27), a VersoFest book talk with actress/performer Gina Gershon (March 28), and much, much more.

An international icon, Hoffs has written and performed hits with the Bangles, the multi-platinum band that ruled MTV and the airwaves. She has since excelled in a multi-faceted career with a string of solo albums and collaborations, most notably with Matthew Sweet, Elvis Costello, and Rufus Wainwright.

Hoffs also published a novel, The Bird Has Flown, in 2023, that was hailed by The New York Times and praised as a “valentine to music” by NPR. And she has become a sensation on Instagram, garnering 866,000 followers.

For her evening at the Library, Hoffs will discuss all this and more with Camerota, in addition to playing songs from the varied points of her career.

Copies of The Bird Has Flown will be available for sale at the event.

And this is your opportunity to see Hoffs in an intimate venue, as one of just 450 attendees in the Library’s unique Trefz Forum space.