**UPDATE**: Update on Wallis Bird Australian tour featured in our January edition – the tour has been cancelled due to bereavement. See Wallis Bird’s post on 31st December here.

Wallis Bird has been enrapturing audiences for over a decade, playing more than 1,000 shows in that time worldwide. She has won multiple international awards including two Irish Meteor Awards, and has also received a nomination for the Irish Choice Music Prize. 

Her irrepressible energy on stage is one of her trademarks; even the Irish Times once noted it could ‘kickstart an entire economy’. 

Wallis returns to Australia for the fourth time, after the Covid restrictions put her touring plans on hold in 2022.

That year, Wallis released her seventh studio album Hands – her most personal and experimental to date.  Hands finds Bird turning the spotlight onto herself, raising subjects that are sometimes hard to confront. Among these are issues of trust, alcohol abuse, stagnation, self-censorship, and self-improvement. 

Each is delivered by a voice uncommonly blessed with joy, ingenuity and empathy. 

TOUR DATES

3 JAN Brisbane QLD

4 JAN Brunswick Heads NSW

6 JAN Sydney NSW

7 JAN Katoomba NSW

9 JAN Canberra ACT

10 JAN Adelaide SA

12-14 JAN Cygnet Folk Festival TAS

17 JAN Franklin TAS

19 JAN Melbourne VIC 

20-21 JAN Illawarra Folk Festival NSW