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The Salvation Tour:

Bernie Griffen & Kirsten Warner

Joined by The Thin Men

Embark on Nationwide Music & Poetry Tour

After four months performing in Australia, Bernie Griffen and Kirsten Warner will be hitting the big wide open joined by The Thin Men, on a 15 date nationwide tour, covering the length and breadth of New Zealand this November and December.

Together, long-time collaborators and partners Griffen and Warner are a force to be reckoned with. Melding together their formidable individual talents as songwriters and performers, the pair will be performing the heart-wrenching material off Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men's critically-acclaimed album, Salvation, along with the captivating poetry of Kirsten Warner.

Follow them to a watering hole near you, and be saved.

The Salvation Tour NZ dates:
Bernie Griffen & Kirsten Warner
with The Thin Men

Thursday 3rd November:
Picton - Le Café

Friday 4th November:
Mapua - The Playhouse Theatre

Saturday 5th November:
Blackball - The Blackball Hilton

Friday 11th November:
Barrytown - The Barrytown Settler's Hall

Saturday 12th November:
Christchurch - Blue Smoke

Thursday 17th November:
Invercargill - House Concert**

Friday 18th November: 
Wanaka - Gin & Raspberry

Saturday 19th November:
Gore - House Concert**

Sunday 20th November:
Dunedin - The Edinburgh Folk Club

Thursday 24th November:
Oamaru - The Grain Store

Friday 25th November:
Rangiora - The Fools of Desire

Thursday 1st December:
Wellington - The Third Eye 
w/ The Thin Men

Friday 2nd December:
Whanganui - Whanganui Musician's Club
w/ The Thin Men

Saturday 3rd December:
Raumati - The Raumati Social Club
w/ The Thin Men

Monday 5th December:
Auckland - The Devonport Folk Club at The Bunker
w/ The Thin Men

Tickets will be available soon from UnderTheRadar.co.nz
Further North Island dates to follow

The intriguing video for Burial Groundoff the 2014 album, Salvation, was crowd-funded earlier this year and produced by small Auckland production company, Howl Creative. It was shown recently at 2016 NOLA Horror Film Festival.

In the video, director Tom Levesque takes the song on the cinematic journey of a dishevelled drifter who drags a coffin across the Hauraki Plains towards a brutal conclusion.

Kirsten Warner, armed with a guitar or sometimes a pen, is an established writer, poet, journalist and musician. She has written, edited or contributed to over ten non-fiction books and her novel has just been accepted for publication. 

In 2008, she won the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2013, she was shortlisted in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards ("Best Magazine Travel Story") for her piece, Bali’s Bright Shining Lie, a personal and creative exploration about visiting an orphanage in Bali. She chaired the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors.

Kirsten joins Bernie in Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men on acoustic guitar and vocals.

Kirsten Warner online:
Official Website

Bernie Griffen is a story-teller: penning songs about characters real and imagined, existing in a world of criminals and saints, dusty feet and wounded hearts. Radio New Zealand’s Trevor Reekie described Bernie as “a national treasure”. 

Once known as “grandfather of punk”, in 2009 the big-voiced, charismatic figure started to emerge as a notable singer-songwriter going on to form the band Bernie Griffen and The Grifters, which attracted a strong cult following, then Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men, opening for major international acts such as Emmylou Harris, Justin Townes Earle, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Little Band of Gold and Eilen Jewell...

A powerful voice full of soul, humour and sadness, he draws influence from American folk, blues, from the country-rock of Gram Parsons and The Grateful Dead, the mournful wails of Neil Young and outlaw country singers like Johnny Cash. Griffen is a well-travelled performer who sings his heart-felt and unique brand of psychedelic-folk music with passion and driving delivery. 

Bernie Griffen & The Thin Men online:
Official Website
Facebook
Soundcloud
Bandcamp

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