
Adam Hattaway and Tess Liautaud Announce Autumn Tour
Ōtautahi's Adam Hattaway and Canterbury-based, Franco-American songwriter Tess Liautaud have announced a whopper of a double headline autumn tour, playing fourteen plus dates all about the South Island in April and May. Hatched from time spent together in voluntary isolation, the pair will perform as an acoustic duo, promising to "explore the full gamut of human emotion throughout an intimate evening full of stories, darkness, and hope," via a musical melting pot of originals and select covers. An Energizer Bunny of songcraft, Hattaway launched his twenty two song album Rooster with The Haunters late last year and worked closely with Lyttelton legend Al Park on his forthcoming new record, while Liautaud released her debut single 'Breezy As' earlier this month — don't miss both artists at the dates below...
Adam Hattaway And Tess Liautaud - Autumn Tour
Saturday 23rd April - Le Bons Bay Hall, Banks Peninsula*
Sunday 24th April - The Gland, Akaroa
Wednesday 27th April - Six Ounces, Christchurch*
Friday 29th April - Le Cafe, Picton*
Sunday 1st May - Golden Bear, Mapua
Wednesday 4th May - Kismet, Nelson*
Friday 6th May - Gatherer Wholefoods & Bar, Hokitika*
Saturday 7th May - Kahere Retreat, Franz Joseph*
Friday 13th May - Blue Door, Arrowtown
Saturday 14th May - Ophir Peace Memorial Hall, Alexandra*
Thursday 19th May - The Little Theatre, Gore*
Friday 20th May - Southland Musicians Club, Invercargill*
Saturday 21st May - Bark @ Dog With Two Tails, Dunedin*
Sunday 22nd May - Secret Location, Oamaru
*Tickets available HERE via UTR
Watch Adam Hattaway's video for 'Riding the River', from Rooster...
Watch Tess Liautaud's video for her debut single 'Breezy As'...
Press release:
Otautahi's Adam Hattaway and Franco-American musician Tess Liautaud have announced a nationwide, 14+ date tour as an acoustic duo. With a setlist comprised mostly of their original songs, they’ll explore the full gamut of human emotion throughout an intimate evening full of stories, darkness, and hope. As the pair have been living together, and voluntarily isolating, they’ve had NO CHOICE but to sing songs together, and boy does the amalgamating result gel. From Dylan to Springsteen, from Hatfield to Hattaway, Lucinda to Liautaud, they have cooked up a show for ya’ll that’ll bust yer brains out, knock yer songs off and cause you to fill your shoes with wee-wee! (Oui oui, Tess!)
Tess is a singer-songwriter, spending her early years between the eastern city of France, Strasbourg, and New York, including a few years covering herself in music in Liverpool in the UK, she then became a regular in the music scene in Paris, where she performed nightly spending a couple of years honing her performing craft, before making the move to New Zealand. “Tess may be a thousand of kilometers away from home but the universal music of language has given her plenty of grounding in the land of the long white cloud ”
Forever shaking hands with heartache, Adam Hattaway lives close to the bone. From his home in Otautahi, he has earned an international reputation for sweltering hooks, high-kicks, and raw, emotional narratives. A born frontman, he deftly marries 60's swagger with 21st century sensitivity. With four studio albums under his belt with his band Adam Hattaway and the Haunters, Here is a guy who's been through the tunnel and done the work, here's a musician that is letting it all hangout.
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