An Evening With Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Odeon Theatre, 167 Liverpool St, 7000 Hobart Directions
Sun 14.02.2027 19:00
Approximate Running Times: Doors: 7:00pm Start: 8:00pm LOVE POLICE PRESENTS An Evening With GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS Completing a three-year odyssey of southern hemisphere visits, the legendary Gillian Welch & David Rawlings head south once again this February to fulfil a promise to visit all major centres in Australia and New Zealand. With a musical style across traditional Appalachian, bluegrass, country, Americana and folk sounds, the Grammy Award winning duo will perform shows in Perth, Launceston, Forth, Queenstown and Hobart in Tasmania, Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington and Christchurch in New Zealand. It will be the duo's first visits to Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand ever, and the first shows in Western Australia and the rest of New Zealand in over 10 years. We can't wait.
Performers
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Gillian Welch's musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, americana, old time string band music and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive". Her music is often described as haunting or soothing.
Welch was born in Manhattan and was adopted when she was three days old. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of four. By the age of seven, she had learned to play the guitar. Studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz Welch discovered bluegrass music through the "mountain soul" stylings of The Stanley Brothers. After a short stint in a local band, Welch moved to Boston and studied at the Berklee College of Music.
In Boston, Welch met and began dating David Rawlings, who would become her longtime musical partner. In 1992, they moved to Nashville and began building a career. In Nashville, she met T-Bone Burnett, producer to such artists as Los Lobos, Sam Phillips, Counting Crows, and Elvis Costello. In 1996, Welch released her first album, Revival, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1997. Since then, she has recorded other albums and collaborated on the songs "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby" and "I'll Fly Away" on the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers hit O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Welch has also collaborated with good friend and singer/songwriter Ryan Adams on the albums Heartbreaker, Gold, and Demolition. She and Rawlings toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller in 2004 as The Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. Welch and Rawlings have collaborated with Old Crow Medicine Show and appear in their video of their song "Wagon Wheel".
It's also of note that Welch covered the Radiohead track "Black Star" with her own distinctive sound in at least one live set. A recording of this cover has not been released on any album, but is widely available online.
