New
Zealand folk artist, Reb
Fountain has been announced as opening act for Joshua Hedley's
Mr Jukebox tour in Auckland
and Christchurch this July.
Fountain recently won double at the NZ
Country Music Awards taking home the 2018 APRA Best Country Music Songfor
Hopeful/Hopeless and the Recorded Music
NZ Best Country Music Artist Tui for the EP of the same
name.
The Tuning Fork and 13th Floor present
Joshua Hedley
with support from Reb Fountain
Blue Smoke, Christchurch: Sat 14 July 2018, doors 8pm
Tuning Fork,
Auckland: Sun 15 July 2018, doors 7pm
After touring and recording
with
Finn Andrews(
The Veils), Reb Fountain released
Hopeful
&Hopeless;
"the most perfect EP ever made," (Simon Wilson, Metro) in June
2017.
After hearing her perform, Neil
Finn handpicked Reb to feature in his all-star choir for his
month long album building and recording project,
Out of Silence; she
has since performed with Neil for his New Zealand and Australian
Out of
Silence tour.
Reb released and toured the second of her stellar new projects,
Little Arrows; a
much awaited album featuring the late Sam
Prebble that was nominated for Best Folk Album 2018. Her band "
made up for lost time by putting on
one of the finest shows of the year" (Marty Duda, 13th Floor).
Reb jumped straight into ‘The
Boy Next Door - a celebration of Nick Cave’ to further sold out
shows around the country. “
From
the moment she arrives on the Spiegeltent stage she possesses it completely.”
(Bridie Freeman,The Hook).
A pre-eminent singer and performer Reb has for years been the musicians secret,
having performed and recorded with
The
Eastern,
The
Warratahs, Delaney
Davidson, Don
McGlashan,
Finn Andrews (
The Veils), Will Wood,
Tami Neilson, Neil
Finn and featuring in The
Last Waltz 40th Anniversary tour as the voice of Joni Mitchell.
“Reb Fountain is to be
counted among our finest songwriters whose imagery is both personal and
universal, and her command of a melody and a song transcends genre.”
(Graham Reid,Elsewhere)
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