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JOHN BUTLER ‘Prism Tour’ On Sale This Friday!

Intimate Capital City and Regional Tour Dates Announced To Coincide with Release of Candid New Studio Album PRISM
With special guest Emma Donovan

Tickets on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from johnbutlertrio.com
Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records

New Studio Album ‘PRISM’ – Released September 5
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The release on September 5 of John Butler’s deeply personal new studio album ‘PRISM’, will also mark the first date this prolific independent artist begins his Australian ‘PRISM Tour’ – a national run of shows in intimate city venues and across regional towns, with special guest Emma Donovan and for two shows only in Cairns and Darwin, The Waifs.

Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records, the tour will begin in Bunbury on September 5, and include shows in Perth, Adelaide (part of Adelaide Guitar Festival), Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Thirroul, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane (part of Brisbane Festival), Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Darwin and Cairns before finishing in Townsville on October 5.

Tickets are on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from johnbutlertrio.com

Credit Nick McKinlay DL0A0608 John Butler

Butler said, “I am really looking forward to touring Oz again with the band for the Prism album launch. Loving playing with Ian Peres, Michael Boase and reuniting with Michael Barker on the drums. We’ve been having such a great time bringing these new songs to life on stage and the older songs are sounding BETTER THAN ever. Sorry couldn’t help myself!”

Joining Butler as special guest on the tour is highly celebrated, ARIA-nominated, award-winning singer and songwriter Emma Donovan, whose new solo album ‘Til My Song Is Done’ is out now. For Darwin and Cairns, Butler will be joined by his fellow independent folk loving friends, The Waifs.

Significantly, ‘PRISM’ marks a formal departure from the John Butler Trio moniker. It’s an album that is contemplative and explosive, joyous and free, funk-filled, cinematic and unapologetic, with singles ‘Trippin On You’ and ‘So Sorry’ already released.

‘PRISM’ is Season Three of Butler’s Four Season roll-out – following Season One’s album of meditations (‘Running River’) and Season Two’s fully instrumental album (‘Still Searching’).

Aside from solo shows in 2024 to support his two instrumental albums ‘Running River’ and ‘Still Searching’, Butler hasn’t toured Australia with a band since 2019.

Butler is widely celebrated for his epic guitar instrumentals and pedal board wizardry, and the Australian tour follows an extensive two-month North American summer tour, with Dispatch, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Special Sauce and Illiterate Light, including shows in Nashville, Red Rocks, NYC’s Rooftop at Pier 17, Ravinia and more.