5 Best Moments of Laufey’s ‘A Matter of Time’ Tour at New York City’s Madison Square Garden: ‘Hamilton,’ PinkPantheress & More

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The jazz-pop superstar brought endless whimsy to The Garden for her 2nd nighttime astatine the iconic NYC arena. Get each the details.

10/17/2025

Hand-wringing and histrionically complaining astir the prime of euphony for younger audiences has go a generational rite of passage, but if Laufey‘s arena-conquering A Matter of Time Tour is thing to spell by, precocious Gen Z and Gen Alpha person stars of their ain who are proudly carrying the jazz and vocal popular mantles into a caller epoch of Top 40.

Commencing connected Sept. 15 astatine Orlando’s Kia Center, Laufey’s latest trek volition sojourn large cities crossed the U.S. and Europe earlier concluding connected March 15, 2026, astatine Kórinn Arena successful her location state of Iceland. The circuit is successful enactment of her A Matter of Time album, which reached No. 4 connected the Billboard 200 and topped both Jazz Albums and Independent Albums. After her past LP, Bewitched, won her a Grammy for champion accepted popular vocal medium and spawned an unlikely deed single successful “From the Start,” Laufey was tasked with scaling up her imaginativeness and output to lucifer her ever-widening audience. To bring it each to beingness onstage, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter fashioned her latest LP’s peculiarly hooky songs into a wholly entertaining five-act presentation.

Armed with a whimsical acceptable plan consisting of a castle ballroom mainstage, a smaller 2nd signifier shaped similar a clock, a makeshift jazz club, Juliette balconies, orchestra risers and a rotating operation atop the “clock’s” hands, Laufey’s A Matter of Time Tour instantly greeted fans with a ocular feast. As she tore done a setlist chiefly comprised of A Matter of Time tracks and past discography highlights, Laufey delivered pitch-perfect vocals, expansive arrangements tailor-made for an arena situation and respective heart-warming moments of banter that underscored her astir incomprehensible presumption arsenic a 26-year-old jazz-pop star.

In summation to her ain setlist — which oscillated betwixt soaring piano-led ballads (“Goddess”) and adorable choreography (“Tough Luck”) — Laufey besides treated her Thursday nighttime (Oct. 16) Madison Square Garden assemblage to 2 peculiar guests: Lin-Manuel Miranda and PinkPantheress. With the erstwhile treating the philharmonic theatre aficionados and the second pleasing the edgier fringes of the TikTok crowd, some guests helped Laufey flaunt her marvelous range, some musically and aesthetically.

Here are the 5 champion moments from the 2nd Madison Square Garden nighttime of Laufey’s A Matter of Time Tour.