As Tibet House’s highly-anticipated 38th annual benefit concert steadily approaches, the host organization has expanded its star-studded lineup with three new additions. On March 3, legendary singer-songwriter Michael Stipe will take the stage at Carnegie Hall’s hallowed Stern Auditorium, returning to the beloved New York event he’s frequented since 1996. The R.E.M. frontman’s announcement was preceded by that of country pathbreaker Orville Peck and longtime avant-pop forerunners Tune-Yards, both of whom will make their first appearances at the star-studded showcase.

The three new arrivals join another expansive program of intrepid artists and cultural figureheads, curated by veteran Artistic Directors Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. Beyond the acclaimed experimentalists at the helm, the diverse creative perspectives to be featured include regular participants like Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and New York icon Patti Smith, Grammy-winning Americana trailblazer Allison Russell, Tibetan composer, multi-instrumentalist and activist Tenzin Choegyal, the electro-acoustic Scorchio Quartet and Angélique Kidjo, whose singular Afrobeat-jazz fusion–inflected by her Beninese-French background–met with Glass’ orchestral minimalism on 2014’s IFÉ.

The 2025 bill will be further bolstered by New York-based Ukrainian punk ensemble Gogol Bordello, which will make its second appearance on the hallowed stage after an anthemic closing set at the 37th benefit. The rapidly rising Arooj Aftab will also make her Tibet House debut; Aftab’s genre-bending, historically-informed compositions–exhibited in her acclaimed reworkings of Mah Laqa Bai Chanda’s 18th-century Urdu poetry on last year’s Night Reign–are a perfect fit for the event’s meditative, mission-oriented ethos. The program as it stands is completed by a performance from Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Emmy-winning co-star of The Bear.

Uma Thurman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Arden Wohl and Jonah Freeman will serve as the evening’s honorary chairs. All proceeds from the show will support Tibet House US, the storied non-profit cultural institution founded at the urging of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to ensure the survival of Tibet’s vibrant civilization and culture in exile.

Tickets for the 38th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert are on sale now at carnegiehall.org.  For more information on Tibet House, visit thus.org.