Superb singer/songwriter Eilen Jewell and her band, last here in 2012, have announced a return to New Zealand and will play one special headline show in March 2016.
Opening for Eilen will be Auckland folk-country musicians Bernie Griffen & The Thin Men.
After New Zealand, Eilen will head to Australia where she will play two headline shows and also open for Jason Isbell at his shows in Melbourne, Bendigo and Sydney.
Hailing from Boise, Idaho, Eilen Jewell is a remarkable singer/songwriter whose honesty, confidence, and respect permeate her music dating back to her self-released Boundary County album in 2006.
Since then, she has recorded five studio albums with her road-tested touring band, and two more as a member of the Boston-based gospel-charged Sacred Shakers, which includes that well-oiled band at its core. Her work has won many fans including multiple Oscar winner Tom Hanks who included Heartache Boulevard in his must listen to list.
Her latest album, Sundown Over Ghost Town, is a masterful culmination of Jewell’s work to date and had critics raving including American Songwriter Magazine - “An undiscovered gem…a layered, shimmering pearl of an album that shines like cut crystal.” And this from Pop Matters - “8 stars… expressive grace and and imagery… barbed details… Her melodies create sonic landscapes, mostly of the mythic American West where human beings have the perspective of big open spaces to compare themselves with a wide-screen setting…
