The word "headliner" is correct.
It is commonly used to refer to the main performer or act in a show or event, often in the context of concerts or festivals.
Example: "The headliner for the music festival this year is a world-renowned band."
Alternatives: "Main act" or "Featured performer."
Field Day also has many female stage headliners, including Patti Smith, Savages and FKA Twigs; Green Man is headlined by St Vincent, while second headliner Hot Chip have a female drummer, and the next band down the bill, psychedelic crew Goat, are female-fronted.
He spoke as the morning headliner at the Freedom Summit, a one-day meeting convened by Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman for Iowa and talk radio host renowned for his strident views on topics such as immigration.
Earlwolf set off car alarms and shook portaloos with their bass-heavy, expletive-laden set, and Friday night headliner Skrillex managed to work up a predictable hubbub over at the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage, but nothing prepared Reading goers for the mayhem that ensued at Chase and Status's Saturday night main stage show.
"I will be headliner or something" he says.
That just left Clegg, the least impressive headliner since they let Rod Stewart end Glastonbury.
That may have been because Mr Martelly was somewhat overshadowed by Wyclef Jean, the Haitian hip-hop star who was the night's other headliner.
In the fall of 1998 Hill began appearing as a headliner, and in April 1999 she launched her first major tour as a solo artist.
In 2009 Swift embarked on her first tour as a headliner, playing to sold-out venues across North America.
A headliner on Canadian stages in 2015 was Soulpepper Theatre Company of Toronto's spring restaging of its year-old adaptation by Vern Thiessen of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel Of Human Bondage, which moved audiences with its elegantly staged and acted observations on love and art.
The Marx Brothers were the sons of a tailor and a domineering stage mother, as well as the nephews of vaudeville headliner Al Shean of the popular team Gallagher and Shean.
In 1910 Florenz Ziegfeld heard Brice singing in a burlesque house and made her a headliner in his Follies of that year.
