Tex Perkins To Perform Johnny Cash Show In Decommissioned Prisons - Noise11.com
Tex Perkins

Tex Perkins

Tex Perkins To Perform Johnny Cash Show In Decommissioned Prisons

by Paul Cashmere on July 5, 2016

in Live,News

Tex Perkins will present his Johnny Cash tribute show, based on Cash’s recorded performances from the Folsom and San Quentin prisons in the 60s in the US, in decommissioned prisons throughout Australia.

The Far From Folsom Tour, featuring Tex Perkins & The Tennessee Four with Rachel Tidd, will be performed at Sydney’s Cockatoo Island as well as the Port Arthur historic site in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The show will also play on prison grounds in Fremantle, Maitland, Adelaide, Bendigo and Melbourne.

Duane McDonald of Regional Touring, the company behind One Electric Day and the Red Hot Summer tour, spent the last 18 months developing the Far From Folsom Tour in association with Premier Artists.

The tour will commence 7 October, 2016 in Darwin.

“The idea of presenting these shows in decommissioned gaols has been a work in progress for the past 18 months. It is a very exciting project,” Duane McDonald tells Noise11.com. “From Fannie Bay in Darwin through to Old Adelaide Gaol, all of these venues have fantastic appeal and will be a memorable experience for patrons”.

The Far From Folsom show covers some of Johnny Cash’s best loved songs from his prison performances. Perkins has been covering the music of Johnny Cash since his earliest bands. Tex launched the first Far From Folsom show performance at The Old Parramatta Gaol in Sydney in 2015. It was planned for one night. He played three and sold 7000 tickets.

Far From Folsom tour dates

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
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

Noise11.com

——————————————————————————————————————————————

Never miss a story! Get your free Noise11.com daily music news email alert. Subscribe to the Noise11 Music Newsletter here

Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadio

Follow Noise11.com on Facebook and Twitter

NOISE11 UPDATES are now in Apple News

Related Posts

Red Hot Summer Sandstone Point 2024
Red Hot Summer Wins Ticketmaster Australia Festival of the Year Award

Red Hot Summer, the music festival founded by Duane McDonald in 2011, has won the Festival of the Year Award at Ticketmaster Australia’s annual award event.

March 8, 2024
Face To Face Touring Live Nation
Live Nation Come Face To Face For A New Frontier Of Touring In Australia

Live music in Australia has taken an exciting new direction with Live Nation announcing an acquisition of the newly merged Face To Face Touring.

December 12, 2023
Icehouse at One Electric Day 19 November 2023 photo by Winston Robinson, Noise11
Jon Stevens and Icehouse Back To Back Deliver 24 Songs Everyone Knows At One Electric Day

One of the great things about Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day is the concentration of Classic Australian rock.

November 20, 2023
+Live+ and Incubus To Headline Inaugural Lookout Festival

Australia will have a brand-new music festival in 2024. Lookout Festival will feature +Live+ and Incubus with Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and The Superjesus.

September 18, 2023
Jim Kerr of Simple Minds photo by Ros O'Gorman
Icehouse and Simple Minds To Reunite For Red Hot Summer 2024 Tour

Red Hot Summer will recreate the historic 1981 touring line-up with Icehouse and Simple Minds together again on the same bill.

July 30, 2023
Jimmy Barnes at Red Hot Summer Mornington 2019 photo Noise11.com
Jimmy Barnes To Headline Red Hot Summer 2024

Red Hot Summer is back for 2024 (well, and a little bit of 2023), with Jimmy Barnes as the Red Hot headliner once again.

May 21, 2023
Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson
One Electric Day Sells Out In One Electric Morning

The One Electric Day music festival at Werribee Park for November has sold out in one electric morning.

May 12, 2023