On Air Fest has announced the first group of headliners and talent for its 10th anniversary edition, set to take place in Brooklyn, New York. The sound and storytelling festival, produced by On Air Presents, will run from Feb. 23 to 25, 2027.
Organizers have chosen the theme "10 Years On.." to mark the milestone. Programming will be held at venues including the Wythe Hotel and Arlo Williamsburg, and will include live podcasts, conversations, performances, parties and events centered on the future of storytelling.
Headliners in this first round include Megan Rapinoe, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro, Dan Harris, Anthony Fantano, On the Media, One Song and World Café. Several of these acts will bring live recordings to the stage.
Those recordings will include Why Are You Like This with Rapinoe, CNN's Chasing Life with Gupta, and 10 Percent Happier with Harris. Cornish and Shapiro will record CNN's Engagement Party, while WNYC's On The Media will be taped with Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger. WXPN's World Café will be recorded with host Raina Douris.
Other scheduled appearances include music critic Anthony Fantano and Sam Sanders of The Sam Sanders Show. One Song hosts Diallo Riddle and Blake "LUXXURY" Robin are also booked, along with Josh Dean of Chameleon. Leon Neyfakh and Sayre Quevedo will take part in a conversation on narrative podcasting built around Death of an Artist and Reaching Out. Actor and comedian Connor Ratliff will host a main stage.
The festival opens on Feb. 23 with the Podcast Business Summit, presented with Bloomberg at the Wythe Hotel. Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carman will host the invite-only daytime gathering, which is expected to draw leaders from media, technology, advertising, publishing and podcasting.
That evening, the Podcast Academy will present the Ambies at Arlo Williamsburg. The awards show honors excellence in podcasting.
Additional programming and talent will be announced in the coming weeks and months. Past participants at On Air Fest have included Anderson Cooper, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Meyers, Norah Jones, Wyclef Jean, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Audie Cornish, Jad Abumrad, Terry Gross, Francis Ford Coppola and Ira Glass. Details on tickets and scheduling are available through the festival.
