Adelaide Cabaret Festival is thrilled to announce the first headliner for 2025, multi–GRAMMY Award winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier in an Australian exclusive solo performance, with tickets on sale Monday 13 January.
Kicking off the opening weekend of the festival in spectacular style, Jacob Collier is sure to bring the house down with his one-night-only extravaganza of musical brilliance on Saturday, June 7 at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
A six-time GRAMMY Award-winning musician, composer and producer, Jacob Collier is renowned for his energetic live performances of his genre-defying music, blending jazz, pop, R&B and classical music to create a unique and captivating sound. The English performer has sung with some of the biggest acts in music including Joni Mitchell, John Legend, John Mayer and Lucius to name a few and has written songs for artists includingChris Martin and Coldplay, Lianne La Havas, Shawn Mendes and Tori Kelly.
“the colorful Mozart of Gen-Z” NY Times
“Your favourite musician’s favourite musician” Rolling Stone UK
“A prodigious talent” Harper’s Bazaar
Jacob Collier direct from the UK said: “I cannot wait to set foot in Australia once again this year, for this special one-of-a-kind solo show in Adelaide. To improvise a show alongside the audience is one of my most favourite things to experience in the world, and to get to do so in Adelaide, one of Earth’s finest cohorts, is a joy. Australian audiences hold a mighty special place in my heart, having experienced some of the most electrifying shows of my life there over the years. My latest album Djesse Vol. 4 heavily features the audience choirs from the 2022 tour in Australia, simply because you all sound so damn glorious!!”
Jacob Collier’s latest album, Djesse Vol. 4 (Hajanga/Interscope/Decca) has been nominated for Album of the Year at this year’s GRAMMY Awards, as well as nominations for Best Global Music Performance and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella.
In 2024, Collier completed his biggest North American tour ever, selling out Radio City Music Hall amongst other top venues. He recently performed at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and at the Kennedy Centre with the National Symphony Orchestra. Collier has recorded two NPR Tiny Desks, has spoken at the TED conference, and has performed on TV shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and more.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Virginia Gay: “When we talk about cabaret, about the way it dissolves boundaries between performer and audience, about the way it showcases a very particular kind of personal, magnetic, incandescent central performance, there’s really nobody doing this with the joy, the ease and the scale of Jacob Collier. We are SO thrilled to have this multi-award-winner, multi-instrumentalist, this big-beautiful-brain-and-heart electrifying the Her Majesty’s Theatre stage for our opening weekend. What a way to crack open the festival’s 25th birthday celebrations with style!”
“There’s musicianship and then there’s genius, and then way, way, way above all that, out in the stratosphere, is Jacob Collier.” Hans Zimmer
This one night only show is not to be missed.
Produced and presented by Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival has grown from modest beginnings to become one of Australia’s major winter festivals and the largest cabaret festival in the world. The festival has been a platform for shows and performers who have achieved critical acclaim and featured world-renowned artists including Ms Lisa Fischer, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, and Tim Minchin, to name a few.
Jacob Collier
Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Saturday, June 7 at 7pm
Tickets on sale Monday, January 13 at adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au / 131 246
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025 will be held from June 5 – 21
Stay tuned! The full Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025 program will be revealed in all its glory in March 2025.
