{"id":2397115,"date":"2026-05-01T03:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2397115"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:19:22","slug":"dermot-kennedy-announces-new-zealand-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dermot-kennedy-announces-new-zealand-tour-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot Kennedy Announces New Zealand Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dermot Kennedy is coming to Aotearoa New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Live Nation today announced the Irish singer-songwriter is bound for the country this November, with shows confirmed in \u014ctautahi Christchurch, P\u014dneke Wellington, and T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland (see full dates below).<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the shows, which are all-ages shows, go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 8th at 11am local time.<\/p>\n<p>The artist pre-sale begins on Wednesday, May 6th at 9am local time; the Mastercard pre-sale begins on the same day at 10am local time; the Live Nation pre-sale begins on Thursday, May 7th at 10am local time.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dermot-kennedy-australia-tour-dates-tickets-94318\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will also tour Australia<\/a> while in this part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dermot-kennedy-rolling-stone-uncut-podcast-interview-93397\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent guest on the <em>Rolling Stone Uncut<\/em> podcast<\/a>, where he told host Neil Griffiths all about his third studio album,<em> The Weight of the Woods<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter joined the show from his home in Ireland to talk all about the LP, how it came to be, and what he learned from his first two records, <em>Without Fear<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Sonder<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019ve come to a point where I\u2019ve developed the skill to be a much better songwriter, but I can go back sonically to things that feel authentic to me. It puts me in a place where I just love the music,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch and or listen to the full episode below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Dermot Kennedy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/78P9sdhxjijeuMb3y1qMWC\/video?si=dfe5866e98af4ebe&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s latest album has been popular around the world, reaching the top 30 in both Australia and New Zealand. It also topped the charts in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dermot Kennedy 2026 New Zealand Tour<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Presented by Live Nation<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All shows all ages<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Artist pre-sale begins Wednesday, May 6th (9am local time)<\/em><br \/><em>Mastercard pre-sale begins Wednesday, May 6th (10am local time)<\/em><br \/><em>Live Nation pre-sale begins Thursday, May 7th (10am local time)<\/em><br \/><em>General sale begins Friday, May 8th (11am local time)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ticket information available <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.nz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, November 25th<\/strong><br \/>Town Hall, Christchurch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, November 27th<\/strong><br \/>TSB Arena, Wellington<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday, November 28th<\/strong><br \/>Spark Arena, Auckland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermot Kennedy is coming to Aotearoa New Zealand. Live Nation today announced the Irish singer-songwriter is bound for the country this November, with shows confirmed in \u014ctautahi Christchurch, P\u014dneke Wellington, and T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland (see full dates below). Tickets to the shows, which are all-ages shows, go on sale to the general public on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2397116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[400360,467896,467897,467898,467899,467900,467901,467902,467903],"class_list":["post-2397115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dermot-kennedy","tag-dermot-kennedy-aotearoa","tag-dermot-kennedy-aotearoa-tour","tag-dermot-kennedy-auckland","tag-dermot-kennedy-christchurch","tag-dermot-kennedy-new-zealand","tag-dermot-kennedy-new-zealand-tour","tag-dermot-kennedy-tour","tag-dermot-kennedy-wellington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dermot-Kennedy-Announces-New-Zealand-Tour-Dates.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397117,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397115\/revisions\/2397117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}