Amanda Palmer will present this show with no band accompaniment, performing material from her critically-hailed global album and tour There Will Be No Intermission, alongside old favourites from The Dresden Dolls and – surprise! – new songs freshly-written during Level Four lockdown right here in Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa.
Expect a night of graphic, honest, funny storytelling and very human and vulnerable songcraft. Handkerchiefs will be for sale.
Provocative, irreverent, and wildly creative, Amanda Palmer is a fearless singer, songwriter, playwright and audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of music, audience and art.
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” It was an epic, exhausting four-hour gig, combining intense spoken-word storytelling with Palmer’s cathartic songs.” – Radio NZ National.
For many, these were the last international shows in Aotearoa.
Her (sold out) Wellington show scheduled for Monday, 16th March was cancelled to the public and Amanda chose to live-stream her last show, alone with a ukulele and keyboard in a deserted hall in Wellington. Visitors from around the world streamed in to watch, topping 3200 viewers at one point.
After this, Amanda found herself in lockdown in a Hawkes Bay Airbnb (thank god it came with a piano) with her son Ash for eight weeks. They watched Jacinda Ardern’s live broadcasts daily, she celebrated her 44th birthday. When lockdown lifted they slowly emerged, integrating themselves into their new community. Ash is now going to school and Amanda is busking at the local farmers market. They are both so humbled and grateful to Aotearoa.
“I sort of still can’t believe all of this; my path, my luck, and most of all, the grandeur of generosity that the locals here in Hawkes Bay have shown towards me as I’ve struggled with one weird turn after another. It’s been….remarkable.”
WELLINGTON
ST PETERS CHURCH
SATURDAY 29TH, AUGUST 2020
TOITOI – HAWKES BAY OPERA HOUSE
FRIDAY 11TH, SEPTEMBER 2020
Wednesday 22 July: Wellington: Pre-existing ticket holders ONLY onsale. Toitoi: Patreon presale starts.
Thurs 22 July: Wellington Patron and Wello Fringe Tix presale opens, Toitoi and HBAF presale open for Hawke’s Bay.
Friday 24 July: Public sales open.
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