Julien Baker reschedules New Zealand tour dates

The Tuning Fork and 95bFM are thrilled to announce that the internationally acclaimed Memphis native, singer-songwriter Julien Baker is returning to New Zealand this October/November. Performing Thursday, 31st October 2019 – Meow – Wellington and Friday, 1st November 2019 – Tuning Fork – Auckland with support from Auckland based Being. for both the Auckland and Wellington shows. Tickets go on sale from Tuesday 6th August, at 10 am. Auckland tickets are on sale via Ticketmaster and Wellington via Just The Ticket.

There is no doubt that audiences will get to experience an artist at the peak of her live powers.

“To see Baker live is to have something close to an epiphany.” – Drowned In Sound

Julien Baker’s solo debut album, Sprained Ankle, was one of the most widely acclaimed works of 2015. The album, recorded by an 18-year-old and her friend in only a few days, was a bleak yet hopeful, intimate document of staggering experiences and grace, centred entirely around Baker’s voice, guitar, and unblinking honesty. Sprained Ankle appeared on year-end lists everywhere from NPR Music to The AV Club to New York Magazine’s Vulture.

With 2017’s stand out release on Matador Records, Turn Out The Lights, the 21-year-old Baker returned to the world on a much bigger stage, but with the same core of breathtaking vulnerability and resilience. From its opening moments — when her chiming, evocative melody is accompanied by swells of strings — Turn Out The Lights throws open the doors to the world without sacrificing the intimacy that has become a hallmark of her songs. The album explores how people live and come to terms with their internal conflict, and the alternately shattering and redemptive ways these struggles play out in relationships. Baker casts an unflinching and accepting eye on the duality of – and contradictions in – the human experience, at times even finding humour and joy in the midst of suffering. She ultimately calls on her listeners to move beyond “good” and “bad,” or “happy” and “sad,” to embrace more complex truths.

“There’s an elegance to her music that wasn’t there before–a sudden bright piano riff over deep guitar; a harrowing, shouted acapella–that feels like a coming of age.” – Alternative Press

The Tuning Fork and 95bFM present:

Julien Baker

Wellington – Meow – Thursday, 31st October

Auckland – Tuning Fork – Friday, 1st November

Auckland on sale via Ticketmaster and Wellington via Just The Ticket

Ticketmaster presale: Friday, 2nd August, 10 am

General Public on-sale: Tuesday, 6th Aug, 10 am