For the first time in a decade, Harry Connick, Jr will make his long-awaited return to the Australian stages with his Back Live tour this December.
Harry Connick, Jr and his band will celebrate the transformative power of live music with a 6-city national tour, showcasing songs from across his entire career-spanning catalogue of hits, from originals to standards and everything in between.
The tour kicks off in Perth on Sunday 3rd December before touring to Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne.
“This is an exciting time for me for many reasons,” Harry Connick, Jr. said of his Australian tour announcement.
“It’s no secret that I absolutely love your country – I’ve been touring Australia since the ‘90s, after all – so how has it been more than ten years since I last performed? I’m lucky to be able to do lots of things in my career, but for me, home base is music.”
“All I want to do is uplift audiences and I still get a kick out of performing the songs, that move me to this day, so hopefully people can feel that. If folks leave feeling better than when they came in, then it’s been a great night. I want to give people the best show they have ever seen!”
Harry’s art is the music of his native New Orleans, where his parents opened a record store. Since he could reach the keys (aged around three), Harry has played piano. His family would regularly head into the French Quarter to listen to music and Harry began sitting in with jazz bands from about the age of nine.
He went on to study music at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and the Manhattan School of Music before releasing his self-titled major label debut for Columbia Records when he was just 19.
Then, two years later, Harry’s Grammy-winning soundtrack for 1989’s blockbuster romcom When Harry Met Sally… – which went multi-Platinum and marked the first time he’d performed with a big band – fast-tracked his global career trajectory.
As a pianist, singer, composer, actor and performer, Harry has dominated the entertainment sector for over three decades now. He first stole our hearts in the late-’80s, Harry – a 3x Grammy and 2x Emmy winner and 2 x Tony Award nominee – has sold in excess of 30 million albums.
In 2019, he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And his recent stint on the judging panel for Australian Idol’s revival served to reignite people’s interest in him.
Harry Connick, Jr. Australian Tour Dates
Sunday 3 December – PERTH, RAC Arena
Tuesday 5 December – ADELAIDE, Festival Theatre
Friday 8 December – SYDNEY, Aware Super Theatre
Tuesday 12 December – BRISBANE, Convention & Exhibition Centre
Friday 15 December – CANBERRA, Royal Theatre
Sunday 17 December – MELBOURNE, Hamer Hall
Monday 18 December – MELBOURNE, Hamer Hall
A Telstra pre-sale commences 10am Wednesday 19 April to 10am Friday 21 April.
General Public Tickets go on sale from 11am, Monday 24 April.
