Musician, best-selling author, TED speaker, and community leader Amanda Palmer is paying homage to New Zealand with a very special new EP and live tour.
Palmer, who spent over two years waylaid in Aotearoa, New Zealand with her young son during the pandemic, will honor her time as an accidental Kiwi with New Zealand Survival Songs, a brand-new five-song EP collecting material written and recorded during that life-changing experience. The new EP – which was fully financed by the over 17,000 patrons who support Palmer’s extraordinary crowd-funded career as a touring songwriter and recording artist – will be available on January 11, 2024.
Palmer will return to the Australia for “Amanda Palmer Comes Down For a Quick Catch-up: Old Songs, New Songs, New Zealand Survival Songs” an intimate run of concerts in Australia and New Zealand hitting Sydney’s City Recital Hall on February 1 and Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on February 3.
The tour will see Palmer engaging her devoted fans as only she can, telling stories, revealing the inspiration behind the survival songs, and of course, playing material from her ever-evolving body of work as both solo artist and one- half of The Dresden Dolls, including new songs from the iconic punk cabaret duo’s upcoming new album arranged especially for solo piano.