Global superstars The Chicks will include the Hunter region as part of their upcoming world tour in 2023.
It’s the trio’s first time on Australian soil since their sold-out expedition in 2017, which included a spectacular headline slot at CMC Rocks in Queensland.
The Chicks, with very special guest Elle King, will perform at A Day on the Green at Bimbadgen on Saturday 21 October.
Tickets go on sale from Monday 8 May from Ticketmaster.
Making their Australian debut to huge acclaim in 1999, this year marks The Chicks’ fifth visit to our shores.
“Ever since I heard a demo in the late ’90s and did their first tour in November 1999, they’ve been a huge part of my life,” Chugg Entertainment executive chairman Michael Chugg said.
“Watching them become live icons of music has been an amazing journey.
“I know their upcoming tour will go up another level again.”
With the release of their first studio album in 14 years, 2020’s Gaslighter, The Chicks delivered their most anticipated yet, impressing critics globally, co-produced by Jack Antonoff and with collaborators including the likes of Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter and more.
Pitchfork called it “a genuinely compelling new take on the punchy country sound that’s always made them stand out”, while Vulture wrote, “Gaslighter is as careful in its blending of country instrumentation and delicate pop flourishes as it is in its balance of righteous indignation and scandalous receipts … a pop-country killer”.
Earning universal recognition as the biggest-selling US female band of all time, The Chicks have sold more than 30.5 million albums and are among an elite group of artists and the only female group to achieve multiple diamond-selling releases; reaching the stratospheric landmark of more than 10 million copies sold, with both Wide Open Spaces (1998) and Fly (1999).
Counting 13 Grammy Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and numerous Country Music Association Awards among many other accolades, their record-breaking 2006 studio album, Taking The Long Way, picked up five Grammys including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Their on-stage reputation has seen The Chicks play to hundreds of thousands of fans at some of the world’s most prestigious venues, from London’s O2 Arena to the Hollywood Bowl, LA’s Staples Center to New York’s Madison Square Garden, and outspoken songs like Goodbye, Earl and Not Ready To Make Nice make it clear that this power trio plays by nobody’s rules.
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