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The Church Tour 2015

28 June 2015 - 0 Comments

THE CHURCH TOUR 2015
Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Barry Saunders & Marlon Williams:

THE LOST HIGHWAY
7 magnificent churches and cathedrals across New Zealand.

The Church Tour 2015 presents one of its most tantalizing artist line-ups in its already storied seven year history, with four of New Zealand’s most lauded, singular and extraordinary musical talents combining: Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Barry Saunders and Marlon Williams: The Lost Highway.
 
Country, Alt-Country, Spaghetti Noir, Country Rock, Rockabilly, Western folk, Americana, Honky Tonk…..The Church Tour 2015 will showcase the styles and genres that scatter loosely under the flag of Country Music, converging at a place where yarns, myths, tales, legends and fables come to life through exceptional songwriting delivered via the incomparable voices of four artists-in-arms.
 
Delaney Davidson is a singer, songwriter, producer and travelling minstrel - ten years on the road, of no fixed abode. He’s inspired by icons from Hank Williams and Howlin’ Wolf down through Johnny Cash and back up to Buster Keaton. He is a three-time winner of the APRA New Zealand Country Music Song of the Year, has a Country Album of the Year Tui Award, has produced albums for tour mate Tami Neilson and had hisSwim Down Low album trumpeted by the UK Independent as “a rattling, twanging celebration” (5 stars).
 
Tami Neilson has a soulful voice straight from the golden age of country and rockabilly music. A winner of multiple Country Album of the Year Tuis and a prestigious APRA Silver Scroll for Song of the Year (2014) amongst many other career highlights, Tami has been described as a “red-hot honky-tonker, somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication.” (Nick Bollinger, NZ National Radio). Her last album Dynamite received a 5/5 star review in the NZ Herald, which praised “This world-class album is a major statement from an artist at the top of her lyrical and vocal game”.
 
Barry Saunders adventured far and wide as a young gigging musician, playing in bands in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. When Barry pitched back up in Wellington some misty years ago, living on a diet of Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rogers, early Elvis and Chuck Berry, he formed The Warratahs and gave us songs that have become part of the national lexicon – from 'Maureen' and 'Hands of My Heart' to the 'Interislander Song' and 'Rescue Me'. The Warratahs continue to roam (having just released a brilliant new album Runaway Days), alongside and in tandem with Barry’s solo work, which has included the glorious Magnetic South (winner of the Country Album of the Year Tui) and Red Morning. Barry Saunders is an icon.
 
Marlon Williams has been described as the impossible love child of Elvis, Roy Orbison and Townes van Zandt. At the age of 17 he exploded onto the NZ music scene, fronting  acclaimed alt-country band The Unfaithful Ways, then gathered a Country Album of the Year Tui with his tour mate Delaney Davidson and has just released his phenomenal self-titled debut album. Music industry bible Billboard Magazine has already tipped: “Expect to see and hear a lot more from this man with the voice of an angel”.

THE CHURCH TOUR 2015
1st October - 10th October
All shows all ages


Civic Events pre-sale
Wed 1st July 12:00pm- Thurs 2nd July 5:00pm

General on sale
Monday 6th July 12:00pm


Ticketmaster
0800 111 999

Thursday 1 October
Napier
St John’s Cathedral

Friday 2 October
Tauranga
Holy Trinity Tauranga

Saturday 3 October
Auckland
Holy Trinity Cathedral

Monday 5 October
Wellington
Old St Paul’s

Tuesday 6 October
Wellington
Old St Paul’s

Thursday 8 October
Christchurch
St Michael & All Angels

Friday 9 October
Christchurch
The Cardboard Cathedral

Saturday 10 October
Dunedin
Knox Church


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