Rowena Wise Aotearoa Debut Tour Presented by The Slack Agency, Beloved Records, Remote Control Records:
This spring, Rowena Wise makes her long-awaited New Zealand debut, bringing an intimate solo show across the motu for the first time. With just voice and guitar, Rowena’s songs hit with a rare kind of clarity - tender, point-blank, and unafraid of the quietest truths.
Recent accolades include in August, her second studio album Bad Things Feel Good* became her first to enter a national chart, debuting at number #4 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.
From Melbourne to Auckland, Wellington to Oakura and beyond, the tour celebrates a body of work that holds space rather than demands attention, tracing heartbreak, estrangement, and the knottier growing pains of adulthood with candid poetic lyricism.
Since debuting in 2018, Rowena has amassed over 10 million streams, earned airplay across triple j, Double J and Unearthed, and toured extensively across Australia, the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada, supporting artists including Folk Bitch Trio, Holy Holy, Ball Park Music, Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey. Her 2024 debut album, Senseless Acts of Beauty, was praised by CLASH Magazine as “carefully etched indie folk” and shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize.
Expect favourites, new material, and the kind of stillness you can feel in your chest.
Carefully etched indie folk — CLASH Magazine
Fragrant introspection — FLOOD
Now supported by the wonderful Sofia Machray from Te Whanganui-a-Tara on all shows!
Stretching out over moody rockers and soft-burning hooks, Wellington-based indie dream-rock songstress Sofia Machray is an electric take on the singer-songwriter gone rogue. Described by international pop-culture magazine Atwood as ‘New Zealand’s brightest new singer-songwriter’, Machray quickly won the hearts of music lovers at home and abroad following the release of her debut record, Language Of Flowers.
Catch Rowena and Sofia at one of these intimate shows;
September 24th at the Turner Centre in Kerikeri
September 25th playing Old Folks Association in Auckland
September 26th at The Yard, Raglan
September 27th at Dawn Oakura
October 1st flying down to Space Academy in Christchurch
October 3rd finishing the tour at Vogelmorn, Wellington
