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Tex Perkins Given Extended Gaol Time

by Paul Cashmere on July 11, 2016

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Tex Perkins ‘Far From Folsom’ tour has sold out the first date at Melbourne’s Old Melbourne Gaol and a second show has gone on sale for the following night, October 29.

Tex Perkins and the Tennessee Four with Rachael Tidd will perform the songs of Johnny Cash in decommissioned gaols across Australia starting October 7 in Darwin’s Fannie Bay Gaol.

Old Melbourne Gaol in Russell Street closed in July 1929. The Gaol held and was where bushranger Ned Kelly was executed. 133 prisoners, including series killer Frederick Deeming, were executed at the gaol between 1845 and 1929.

The gaol is now a museum displaying the death masks of the executed criminals. Until 1978 Ned Kelly’s skull was also on display before it was stolen. Ned Kelly was executed at the prison in November 1880.

The building was added to the National Trust in 1957 and was opened to the public as a museum in 1972.

Tex Perkins Far From FolsomFriday 7th October 2016
Fannie Bay Gaol, FANNIE BAY NT
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Saturday 8th October 2016
Fremantle Prison, FREMANTLE WA
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Thursday 13th October 2016
Maitland Prison, MAITLAND NSW
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Saturday 15th October 2016
Cockatoo Island, SYDNEY NSW
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Friday 21st October 2016
Old Adelaide Gaol, ADELAIDE SA
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Saturday 22nd October 2016
Old Adelaide Gaol, ADELAIDE SA
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Thursday 27th October 2016
Old Bendigo Gaol, Ulumbarra Theatre, BENDIGO VIC
www.gotix.com.au
Friday 28th October 2016 and NEW SHOW Saturday 29th October 2016
Old Melbourne Gaol, MELBOURNE VIC
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au
Saturday 5th November 2016
Port Arthur Historic Site, PORT ARTHUR TAS
Ticketmaster 136 100 | www.ticketmaster.com.au

For more information, please visit www.texperkins.com.au

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