David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen are scheduled to appear together at TEDxFargo CHARGE, an independently organised TEDx event at Brewhalla in Fargo, North Dakota, this Thursday, according to Consequence and Rolling Stone.

The two have not appeared in public together since 2015. Van Halen, the hard rock band they founded with guitarist Eddie Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony, last toured with Roth on a 2007 reunion run that brought the classic lineup back to arenas.

Painter Robert Vargas will moderate the session. Vargas described the format as "remote live, with the three of us in the same room," and the TEDxFargo Facebook page has branded it a "virtual talk" — meaning the conversation will be filmed and later posted on YouTube and TEDxFargo's own platforms for public viewing rather than streamed live as it happens.

Roth's addition to the event came after he cancelled a run of tour dates. The TEDxFargo slot was originally planned to feature only Vargas and Alex Van Halen.

Alex Van Halen published a memoir, Brothers, in 2024. In a Rolling Stone interview that year, he named the classic Van Halen lineup when asked about the band's core: "The heart and the soul and the creativity and the magic was Dave, Ed, Mike, and me." Eddie Van Halen, the band's guitarist and Alex's younger brother, died in 2020.

Roth has kept a public profile in recent months, including a surprise appearance at Coachella where he sang "Jump," Van Halen's 1984 number-one single, with Teddy Swims.

For fans of a band that sold over 80 million records worldwide, the Fargo appearance carries a weight its modest venue might not suggest. The TEDx format favours reflective conversation over performance, and with Alex Van Halen's memoir and Roth's ongoing live work both in recent memory, the session gives the two a platform to address their shared history directly — something they have rarely done in the same room over the past decade.