Vika & Linda have added new dates to their “An Evening with Vika & Linda” tour, which kicks off in March. The new dates add appearances in Sydney and Alice Springs as well as Prosperine on the Whitsunday region of Queensland and Bateman’s Bay on the South Coast of NSW, with additional appearances in regional Victoria, outer Melbourne and outer Brisbane providing even more comprehensive East Coast coverage.It’s been a crazy last few years for Vika & Linda, and not just in the ways that it has been for all of us.
It’s been a crazy last few years for Vika & Linda, and not just in the ways that it has been for all of us.
June 2020 saw them release their career-spanning collection ‘Akilotoa and score their first Number One Album. Not a bad start. Three months later they released their gospel album, Sunday (The Gospel According To Iso), which debuted at number two. Into 2021, September saw them release their first album of new material in nearly two decades, aptly titled The Wait, which also went to number two. And 2022 was no less frantic. The Queen’s Birthday saw them awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for their service to the performing arts, and they ended the year with not only their first Christmas album, Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas!, but their long-awaited memoir No Bull, which documented their journey from Doncaster, in suburban Melbourne, to the top of the charts.
If 2023 saw Vika & Linda relax just a little, they still managed to tour extensively with their crack band the Bullettes, and cap the year, for the second year running, with a sold-out all-star Christmas show.
And now we’re into 2024 and they’ve decided to strip things back and kick off the year by doing things a little differently. Inspired by many wonderful band room singalongs and soundcheck experiences with their long-term collaborator, producer and musical director Cameron Bruce, Vika & Linda have decided to pare it back to just their voices and the beautiful sounds of Cameron on grand piano.
So that’s what they’re going to do. Starting in March and touring nationally, “An Evening with Vika & Linda” will present Vika & Linda and Cameron and a career-spanning selection of their favourite songs, performed as most people have never heard them before. Indeed, unless you’ve been at those bad room singalongs or soundchecks, these shows will give you a whole new insight into Vika & Linda and their music. And their voices of course.
It’s a bold move; not only will these concerts showcase the rich beauty of their voices like never before, but the format will leave them laid bare as singers. But Vika & Linda have never been a pair to shy away from a challenge, and the last few years have shown they’re up to anything. “An Evening with Vika & Linda” will be an experience none of their fans should miss.
Fri 22 Mar – Glasshouse Theatre, Port Macquarie, NSW
Sat 23 Mar – Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, NSW
Thu 4 Apr – Lighthouse Theatre, Warrnambool, Vic
Fri 5 Apr – The Round, Nunawading, Vic – SOLD OUT!
Thu 11 Apr – Sydney, City Recital Hall
Thu 9 May – The Wedge, Sale, Vic
Fri 10 May – Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, Traralgon, Vic
Sat 11 May – Civic Hall, Ballarat, Vic
Fri 17 May – Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra, NSW
Sat 18 May – The Art House, Wyong, NSW
Sun 19 May – Pavilion Performing Arts Centre, Sutherland, NSW
Thu 23 May – Glen Street Theatre, Belrose, NSW
Fri 24 May – Glen Street Theatre, Belrose, NSW
Sat 25 May – Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul, NSW
Sun 9 Jun – Geelong Arts Centre, Geelong, Vic
Thu 13 Jun – Frankston, Arts Centre
Fri 14 Jun – Moonee Ponds, Clocktower
Wed 19 Jun – Wagga Wagga, Civic Theatre
Sat 22 Jun – Bateman’s Bay, Bay Pavilions
Sun 23 Jun – Avoca Beach Theatre, Avoca Beach, NSW – SOLD OUT!
Fri 28 Jun – Wangaratta, WPACC
Sat 29 Jun – Bendigo, The Capital
Sat 19 Oct – Alice Springs, Araluen Arts Centre
Fri 1 Nov – Proserpine, Entertainment Centre
Sat 2 Nov – Redland, Performing Arts Centre