Acclaimed singer-songwriter City and Colour (Canadian musician Dallas Green) will return to Australia in February 2023 for a run of headline shows. Kicking off at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday 1 February, City and Colour will traverse the East Coast, stopping at Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre, Melbourne’s Forum and The Tivoli in Brisbane. City and Colour will also appear at SummerSalt across Australia through January and February. The festival will visit eight cities nationally and see City and Colour take the stage alongside the likes of Ben Harper, Angus & Julia Stone, The Rubens and more.
CITY AND COLOUR
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
FEBRUARY 2023
WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY | Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW
TUESDAY 7 FEBRUARY | Ulumbarra Theatre | Bendigo, VIC
THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY | Forum Melbourne | Melbourne, VIC
MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY | The Tivoli | Brisbane, QLD
No stranger to Australian shores, City and Colour last performed live down under in 2019 at Brisbane Festival, an incredibly special one-off set that was delivered to critical praise, Scenestr noting, “the wonder of Dallas Green’s voice (is) a spectacle to witness in real life as he effortlessly bounced from note to note within each melody”.
After regularly touring Australia for ten years, 2023’s visit will be City and Colour’s first full tour in seven years. On his last nationwide tour (2016), Green stunned audiences with his trademark vocals, raw honesty and dialogue, talents that have endeared him to music lovers around the world since City and Colour’s inception in 2005. 2023 will mark Green’s eighteenth tour of Australia, having previously visited ten times as City and Colour, and another seven times with the band Alexisonfire.
Over the course of six studio albums, City and Colour has compiled a canon ripe with songs born of adoration and devotion, amassing a legion of dedicated fans worldwide and garnering him three JUNOs, including two Songwriter of the Year awards, plus multiple triple, double, platinum and gold certifications in his native Canada.
A Pill For Loneliness (2019), his last studio album, debuted at the top of Billboard’s Canadian Albums Chart, his fourth consecutive chart-topper.
Beyond his legacy as co-founder of hardcore luminaries Alexisonfire where Green received platinum certification for four of the band’s five full-length records, he also teamed up with global icon Alecia Moore (P!nk) to record as fold duo You+Me. Not only did their debut, rose ave, attain platinum in Canada, it also topped the Canadian chart on release, peaking at No.2 on the Australian ARIA Chart and soaring to No.4 on the US Billboard Top 200 Chart.
An extraordinary talent, City and Colour never fails to impress with his sublime live performance. Don’t miss these intimate theatre shows when Dallas Green returns in February 2023.