[Cover photo credit to Simone Cecchetti]
Acoustic guitarist, composer and Grammy winner Tommy Emmanuel has announced the March 21, 2025 release of Live At The Sydney Opera House and the album’s first single and live performance video, “The Jolly Swagman,” filmed by Bondi Rocks Media at the Sydney Opera House in his native Australia.
Emmanuel says:
I wrote ‘The Jolly Swagman’ for an imaginary character who makes us all happy by clicking his heels in the air while playing the concertina!!
His performance at the Sydney Opera House is the first captured at that venue on an Emmanuel-Produced album. It features 16 tracks, four of which are medleys, including his well-known “Beatles Medley”.
Emmanuel reflects:
As a 15-year-old boy living in Circular Quay, I spent many a time walking past the Opera House. I would daydream about what it must be like in there, what it would be like to perform there. After fifty years in the business, we finally got there!
Playing the shows for this recording was a dream come true for me. felt so ready! I was surrounded by my team of brilliant people, and I was looking into the faces of so many loving and happy fans in the concert Hall. The momentum and power in these hours spent playing music, is perfectly captured and preserved here on this record. I hope you can feel the intensity of our musical and spiritual relationship…a bond built on a life freely given to all.
Here’s the album’s track listing:
1. Countrywide
2. Fuel
3. The Jolly Swagman
4. Deep River Blues
-Doc’s Guitar
-Blue Smoke
-Cannonball Rag
5. Song for a Rainy Morning
6. Since We Met
7. Secret Love
8. Drums/Mombasa
9. Gdansk
-Tall Fiddler
10.Smokey Mountain Lullaby
11.Windy & Warm
12.Beatles Medley
-She’s A Women
-Please Please Me
-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
-Day Tripper
-Lady Madonna
13. Classical Gas
14. April Sun in Cuba
15. Sail On
16. American Tune
-Waltzing Matilda
Here are TOMMY’s North American tour dates for 2024-25:
2024
December 5 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
December 6 – Fort Myers, FL – Babara B Mann Performing Arts Hall
December 7 – Clearwater, FL – Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
December 8 – Jacksonville, FL – Florida Theatre
December 10 – Charlotte, NC – Knight Theater
December 11 – Newberry, SC – Newberry Opera House
December 12 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
December 14 – Charlottesville, VA – The Paramount Theater
December 15 – Hopewell, VA – Beacon Theatre
2025
January 8 – Irvine, CA – Irvine Barclay Theatre
January 9 – Malibu, CA – Smother Theatre @ Lisa Smith Wengler Ctr for the Arts
January 10 – Menlo Park, CA – The Guild Theatre
January 11 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for The Arts
January 12 – Red Bluff, CA – State Theatre for the Arts
March 25 – Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
March 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
March 27 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
March 28 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre
March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Jak Singer Concert Hall
April 1 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre
April 2 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Performing Arts
April 4 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre
April 5 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre
