James Taylor Announces 2024 Australian Tour

December 4, 2023

James Taylor and his band of experienced session musicians will be touring Australia in April 2024. The tour includes arena shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, an open-air gig at Perth’s Kings Park and Botanic Garden, and A Day on the Green events at wineries in Mount Cotton, the Hunter Valley and Bowral.

Taylor will celebrate his 76th birthday shortly before the tour commences. Next year will also mark the 50th anniversary of Taylor’s fifth album, Walking Man, which is regarded as one of the American singer-songwriter’s lesser releases. Recent setlists have focused on songs from 1970’s Sweet Baby James and 1968’s James Taylor, as well as highlights from throughout Taylor’s six-decade career.

James Taylor – ‘Country Road’

The aforementioned Sweet Baby James featured many of Taylor’s best-known and most cherished originals, such as ‘Country Road’ and ‘Fire and Rain’, while his self-titled debut album was home to ‘Carolina in My Mind’ and ‘Something in the Way She Moves’.

The 2024 tour comes more than seven years after Taylor’s most recent Australian tour, a theatre and winery jaunt in February 2017. Prior that visit, Taylor’s trips to Australia had been scarce. His recorded output has been similarly intermittent in recent decades, but in 2020 Taylor released his 20th album, American Standard.