Photo Credit: Amy Skinder
To celebrate the release of Xavier Rudd‘s latest offering, Follow The Sun, Rudd will tour Australia and New Zealand; winding his way around the country to catch up with friends, catch a few waves, and reconnect with his fans in person, from the stage, where he belongs.
Masterfully delicate, Follow The Sun is the essence of Xavier Rudd‘s spiritual connection to this world: his humble understanding that everything was here before us and will remain long after we are gone, and that every day is a new gift to cherish and to respect.
As a song-writer, Xavier Rudd has always been able to place complex ideas into heartfelt words with a universal simplicity. Having covered vast musical ground with his previous albums, Follow The Sun is the familiar sound of Rudd’s earlier work as an ambidextrous solo artist. His voice, his guitar and his message; carried along with gentle rhythms and musical textures.
Beautifully organic and understated, Rudd’s delivery of Follow The Sun is a reiteration of the song’s theme that no matter what our religion or our blood lines are in this world, taking a moment or a breath, to respect and acknowledge the flow of energy around us, is vital nourishment for our own souls.
Follow The Sun invites us to leave our own distractions – the congestion of thoughts that keep us locked in our minds every waking minute – and to not let each day pass us by. To take notice and be thankful of the beauty of our great mother and our connection to her. That the most overlooked of things – each day’s sun and moon, the winds and the tides, the creatures that fill our skies and oceans… that these things are the truth. They are conduits of an ever-flowing energy that society teaches us as humans to disconnect from, when in fact they are the things we need to be connected to the most.
March-April 2012 Tour Dates
TUE 20TH MARCH
The Hi-Fi, MELBOURNE
Tickets from The Hi-Fi
WED 21ST MARCH
FORUM THEATRE, MELBOURNE *SOLD OUT*
FRI 23RD MARCH
THE HI-FI, SYDNEY
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au
SUN 25TH MARCH
THE HI-FI, BRISBANE
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au
FRI 30TH MARCH
THE GOV, ADELAIDE
Tickets from www.thegov.com.au
THU 5 APRIL
ASTOR THEATRE, PERTH
Tickets from www.bocsticketing.com.au or Tel: 9484 1133
FRI 13 APRIL
KINGS ARMS, AUCKLAND
Tickets from www.ticketmaster.co.nz
SAT 14TH APRIL
BAR BODEGA, WELLINGTON
Tickets from ticketmaster.co.nz