Harry Styles’ one-off full-orchestra performance for Meltdown festival announced as fundraiser for the Southbank Centre, with tickets allocated via prize draw

The Southbank Centre today announces that Harry Styles’ headline performance on 16 June 2026, part of his curation of this year’s Meltdown festival, will be a major fundraiser for the multi-arts centre’s charitable work, with tickets allocated via a prize draw opening today.

The one-night-only headline performance in the iconic Royal Festival Hall offers a rare and intimate experience of a Harry Styles gig, through a landmark collaboration with the Jules Buckley Orchestra. This orchestral gig will see Styles and Grammy award-winning conductor, composer and previous collaborator Buckley join forces to bring an evening of new arrangements of Harry Styles’ music to life.

As the Southbank Centre celebrates its 75th anniversary, proceeds from the draw will directly support the centre’s ongoing work with artists, young people, and communities across the UK. At a time when UK councils are spending 76% less on services for young people than in 2010, and 1 in 5 school pupils are struggling with their mental health, the fundraiser will help to sustain access to creativity where it is needed most, supporting the Southbank Centre’s programme of free and subsidised opportunities that build confidence, wellbeing and connection for thousands of young people each year.