Blind Boy Paxton Announces New Zealand Tour
Los Angeles bluesman Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton is bringing his tunes back to New Zealand this coming February for an extensive summer nationwide tour. The multi-instrumentalist can’t stay away, he’s won over local fans with repeated visits to Aotearoa including a couple of shows last April. This time around he’ll be performing in Auckland alongside UK sibling outfit Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, and will play solo headline events around the country. Expect an authentic range of ragtime, Appalachian mountain music, blues and more, here’s the info…
Blind Boy Paxton
Sunday 11th February – The Powerstation, Auckland (with Kitty, Daisy & Lewis)
Monday 12th February - Totara St, Tauranga
Tuesday 13th February - The Piano, Christchurch
Thursday 15th February - Theatre Royal, Nelson
Friday 16th February - Old St Pauls, Wellington
Saturday 17th February - Blackbarn, Hawkes Bay
Check out this clip of Blind Boy Paxton’s charismatic rendition of the traditional folk/blues tune ‘Mole In The Ground’…
Press release:
US bluesman Blind Boy Paxton has announced a six-date New Zealand tour for February 2018, with shows including Auckland, Tauranga, Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington and Hawkes Bay.
Blind Boy Paxton is the living embodiment of the true blues in the 21st Century, but plays it all in the true songster tradition - ragtime, hokum, old time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music, blues and lots more.
The multi-instrumentalist has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920s and making them wish they could stay.
He sings and plays the banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones. He has the eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real.
Blind Boy Paxton kicks off his New Zealand run in February 2018 as the special guest of Kitty Daisy & Lewis at the Powerstation on February 11.
He then goes on for his own headline shows across the country, taking in Totara Street in Tauranga on February 12, Christchurch’s The Piano on February 13, Theatre Royal in Nelson on February 15, Old St Paul’s in Wellington on February 16, before winding things up in Hawkes Bay at Blackbarn on February 17.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see the extraordinary bluesman live in New Zealand this February.
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