What was intended to be a one-off show at The Old Parramatta Gaol last year ended up selling out an incredible three nights, so it's only natural that Tex Perkins & The Tennessee Four would expand the shows to a full-fledged tour. This October the band along with Rachael Tidd are reinvigorating the Johnny Cash tribute on a string of dates at some of the most renowned and feared (now inactive) prisons.
The Far From Folsom Tour has Perkins bringing his smashing show cross-country from Fremantle to Sydney and plenty of stops in between. Inspired by the indubitably legendary Cash when he took to Folsom and San Quentin jails to perform during the '60s, Perkins will be immortalising this at what are now museums and tourist attractions around the country.
Putting a small spin on this, Perkins will be finishing at the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, when we have only tenderly passed the 20th anniversary of the Port Arthur Shootings in 1996. The tour is a nine-date run spanning almost all of October with Queensland missing out this time.
Perkins will also play a one-off fundraiser Far From Folsom show at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre to raise money for four-year-old Frank Folley, the son of Dave Folley and Rachel TIdd, who has been diagnosed with stage four Neuroblastoma. The show will be hosted by Brian Nankervis and features gusts Chris Russell's Chicken Walk and Lost Ragas.
