Steve Earle: Live in Concert - Christchurch

The Frontier Touring Co. present Steve Earle - bringing his ‘Washington Square Serenade’ world tour to New Zealand in November 2008.

With special guest Allison Moorer.

The hardcore troubadour returns to New Zealand with his latest studio masterpiece ‘Washington Square Serenade’ under his belt and his beautiful songstress wife Allison Moorer to open the shows. This time around, Steve has chosen to perform solo in the special intimate setting of fully seated theatre venues.

Steve Earle’s recorded music career has to date has delivered twelve studio albums and five live albums. Steve has also written books both story and poetry and a stage play. In amongst all of this he does what we love him for best; travels the lengths and breadth of the world performing his music live.

Allison Moorer is about to release her new album ‘Mockingbird’. Moorer together with producer and acclaimed roots artist Buddy Miller - has conjured a rich pastiche of the phases of women's hearts, lives, needs and yearnings. Whether it's a dervish take on Patti Smith's “Dancing Barefoot,” a stoic, proud embrace of Kate McGarrigle's “Go, Leave,” a winking nod to the naughty that is Nina Simone's “Sugar In My Bowl” or the elegant survival of her sister Shelby Lynne's “She Knows Where She Goes, the lithe songstress demonstrates diversity, eclecticism and the range of the XX chromosome set.

Steve Earle's gripping new album, Washington Square Serenade, is a loving tribute to that era, that movement, that music and the city that gave them all a nurturing home. "That period changed pop music," Earle says. "It made lyrics much more important. Rock and roll could have become a subgenre of pop if it hadn't been for that literary aspect, which completely came out of a four-block area in New York City in one brief instant of time."

Tickets on sale on Tuesday August 26th available from Ticketek.