Joshua Hedley Returning To New Zealand In July

Golden-voiced Nashville rising star Joshua Hedley is returning to our shores for his first ever New Zealand headline shows, with gigs lined up at Auckland's Tuning Fork and Christchurch's Blue Smoke in July. The country singer and multi-instrumentalist has played fiddle with Justin Townes Earle, Robert Ellis and Jonny Fritz, and was last here performing his finely honed tunes at Auckland's Southern Fork Americana Fest 2017. Hedley dropped his acclaimed solo debut collection Mr Jukebox via Jack White's Third Man Records earlier this year, he'll be playing with full band at the shows below...

Joshua Hedley

Saturday 14th July - Blue Smoke, Christchurch
Sunday 15th July - Tuning Fork, Auckland

Presales available from 3pm, Monday 28th May

Watch the video for Joshua Hedley's toe-tapping single 'Mr Jukebox'...

Press release:

For years, Joshua Hedley has been making a name for himself as Nashville’s right hand man. Known as the “mayor of lower Broadway” by collaborators and comrades, Hedley is a fixture at Robert’s Western World, where he plays for tips with his band the Hedliners. The multi-talented singer-songwriter has played fiddle with Justin Townes Earle, Robert Ellis and Jonny Fritz. Now Music City’s favourite son is breaking out on his own.

As part of East Nashville’s close-knit brigade of musicians, Hedley has no shortage of support from his peers. He’s featured prominently in the 2015 documentary film Heartworn Highways Revisited, a follow up to the seminal 1976 cult classic music documentary about the 1970s Nashville songwriting community led by Guy and Susanna Clark.

Hedley’s soaring, velvet voice and jukebox-ready songs are 60s-era solid country gold. Unlike several of his peers, Hedley’s not trying to put a new spin on an old sound. Joshua Hedley’s country music is your grandfather’s country music and it’s all the better for it.