John Legend has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, winery date or one-off show on the calendar for either country. His only 2027 date announced anywhere is a single benefit concert, An Evening of Songs and Stories, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Saturday 6 March 2027.
Australia and New Zealand know him well, though it has been a while. The setlist archive lists 28 John Legend concerts in the region over four separate trips: as a newcomer on the Black Eyed Peas' arena tour in 2005, at Bluesfest and in theatres in 2011, alongside Alicia Keys in December 2013 and on his own All of Me Tour in December 2014, which took in Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Brisbane, Auckland, Melbourne, the Yarra Valley and Adelaide.
This page explains what is and is not known about a John Legend return, and gives a full account of his concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from the Sydney SuperDome to the vineyards and the Concert Hall in Sydney. Facts come from Wikipedia, the setlist archive and the tour announcements of the time; anything uncertain has been left out.
There is no official John Legend Australia Tour 2027. No promoter has listed an Australian or New Zealand date, no venue in either country has a John Legend concert on sale, and no 2027 festival line-up in the region names him. The Fort Lauderdale benefit on 6 March 2027 is a one-off gala, not the start of a tour.
He has, however, been touring steadily elsewhere. Wikipedia notes that in 2025 he marked the 20th anniversary of his debut album with the Get Lifted 20th Anniversary Tour, which opened in Glasgow in May 2025 and played the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, alongside an anniversary edition of the album with previously unreleased songs. In 2026 he toured US theatres in the spring and European open-air venues in July with An Evening of Songs & Stories, a more intimate show built around his piano and the stories behind the songs. Neither tour came to Oceania.
His television work also shapes his calendar. Legend has been a coach on the American version of The Voice since 2019 and became its senior coach in 2023, and since 2025 he has been Chief Music Officer of the meditation company Headspace. His visits to the region since 2011 have come in April, October and December.
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John Legend's first concerts in the region came in September and October 2005, a year after Get Lifted, when he was on the bill of the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business Tour. Wikipedia lists him as an opening act at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday 25 September 2005, and the setlist archive also places him at the Burswood Dome in Perth on 28 September, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 30 September, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Sunday 2 October and the Sydney SuperDome on Monday 3 October 2005.
That tour also gave him his first New Zealand shows: the Queens Wharf Event Centre in Wellington on Wednesday 5 October, the WestpacTrust Centre in Christchurch on Thursday 6 October and the Supertop at Mount Smart in Auckland on Saturday 8 October 2005. The Christchurch list is a short support set of seven songs, from 'Let's Get Lifted' and 'Used to Love U' to 'Ordinary People'.
He returned in April 2011, the year after Wake Up!, his album with the Roots. He played Bluesfest at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay on Saturday 23 April 2011, then the State Theatre in Sydney on Sunday 24 April and the Palais Theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne, on Tuesday 26 April. The Palais show, with 23 songs, opened with a cover of Adele's 'Rolling in the Deep' and mixed his own hits with songs from Wake Up! such as 'Hard Times', 'Wake Up Everybody' and 'I Can Change'. The archive also lists a concert at the Belvoir Amphitheatre in Perth's Swan Valley on Friday 28 October 2011.
In December 2013 he was on the bill of Alicia Keys' Set the World on Fire Tour, for which Wikipedia lists him as an opening act in Australia. The archive follows him from Perth Arena on Thursday 5 December to Rochford Winery in the Yarra Valley, Rod Laver Arena, Allphones Arena in Sydney, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and Hope Estate in Pokolbin, and on to Vector Arena in Auckland on Thursday 19 December 2013. In between, on Tuesday 17 December, it records a 24-song show of his own at the Concert Hall in Sydney, one that already included 'All of Me', then on its way to becoming his biggest hit.
A year later he came back as a headliner. The All of Me Tour, announced in October 2014 as a tour with a full band and string section in support of Love in the Future, played Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney on Friday 5 December, Bimbadgen Estate in Pokolbin on Saturday 6 December, the Brisbane Convention Centre on Monday 8 December, Vector Arena in Auckland on Wednesday 10 December, the Plenary in Melbourne on Friday 12 December, Rochford Winery on Saturday 13 December and the AEC Theatre in Adelaide on Sunday 14 December. A Perth date at Kings Park on 16 December was also announced, but the setlist archive has no record of it.
The tour finished at the Concert Hall in Sydney on Thursday 18 December 2014 with a 21-song set ending in 'Ordinary People', 'So High' and 'All of Me'. That remains his most recent concert in Australia, and the Auckland show on 10 December 2014 his most recent in New Zealand. In all, Sydney has had seven of his concerts, Melbourne four, Perth and Auckland three each, Brisbane and Adelaide two each, the Hunter Valley and the Yarra Valley two each, and Wellington, Christchurch and Byron Bay one each.
The table below lists 28 documented Australia/NZ concerts by John Legend between 2005 and 2014, with the most shows in Sydney (7), Melbourne (4), Auckland (3), Perth (3), Adelaide (2), Coldstream (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 December 2014 | Sydney | Concert Hall | All of Me Tour |
| 14 December 2014 | Adelaide | AEC Theatre | All of Me Tour |
| 13 December 2014 | Coldstream | Rochford Winery | All of Me Tour |
| 12 December 2014 | Melbourne | Plenary Theatre | All of Me Tour |
| 10 December 2014 | Auckland | Vector Arena | All of Me Tour |
| 8 December 2014 | Brisbane | Brisbane Convention Centre | All of Me Tour |
| 6 December 2014 | Pokolbin | Bimbadgen Estate Winery | All of Me Tour |
| 5 December 2014 | Sydney | Qantas Credit Union Arena | All of Me Tour |
| 19 December 2013 | Auckland | Vector Arena | |
| 17 December 2013 | Sydney | Concert Hall | |
| 14 December 2013 | Pokolbin | Hope Estate Winery | |
| 13 December 2013 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | |
| 11 December 2013 | Sydney | Allphones Arena | |
| 8 December 2013 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
| 7 December 2013 | Coldstream | Rochford Winery | |
| 5 December 2013 | Perth | Perth Arena | |
| 28 October 2011 | Perth | Belvoir Amphitheatre | |
| 26 April 2011 | Melbourne | Palais Theatre | |
| 24 April 2011 | Sydney | State Theatre | |
| 23 April 2011 | Byron Bay | Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm | |
| 8 October 2005 | Auckland | The Supertop | |
| 6 October 2005 | Christchurch | WestpacTrust Centre | |
| 5 October 2005 | Wellington | Queens Wharf Event Centre | |
| 3 October 2005 | Sydney | Sydney SuperDome | |
| 2 October 2005 | Sydney | Sydney Entertainment Centre | |
| 30 September 2005 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | |
| 28 September 2005 | Perth | Burswood Dome | |
| 25 September 2005 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 6 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (6 October 2005 to 18 December 2014), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
John Legend's only Australian festival appearance on record is Bluesfest 2011, the Easter festival held at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm north of Byron Bay since 2010. He played on Saturday 23 April 2011 and followed it with headline theatre shows in Sydney and Melbourne the same week.
His winery concerts, at Bimbadgen Estate and Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley and Rochford in the Yarra Valley, are not festivals, but they have given him some of his most relaxed Australian settings: outdoor lawns, early evening starts and seated crowds.
John Roger Stephens was born on 28 December 1978 in Springfield, Ohio, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He began behind the scenes, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's 'Everything Is Everything' and singing uncredited backing vocals on Jay-Z's 'Encore' and Alicia Keys' 'You Don't Know My Name'. He was the first artist signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music, which released Get Lifted in 2004.
Get Lifted, with 'Ordinary People', won three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, and its first single 'Used to Love U' reached the top 30 in New Zealand. Once Again (2006) brought 'Save Room', Evolver (2008) the André 3000 duet 'Green Light', and Wake Up! (2010), recorded with the Roots, won two more Grammys.
Love in the Future (2013), his highest-charting album in Australia at No. 15, contained 'All of Me', which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified diamond. 'Glory', written with Common for the film Selma, won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song in 2015. Darkness and Light (2016), A Legendary Christmas (2018), Bigger Love (2020), which won the Grammy for Best R&B Album, Legend (2022) and the children's album My Favorite Dream (2024) followed.
In 2018, as a producer of NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, in which he also played the title role, he won an Emmy and became the first Black man to complete an EGOT, having already won a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony for co-producing the play Jitney. He has won 12 Grammy Awards in all and received the NAACP President's Award in 2016.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Get Lifted | 2004 | AUS 36 |
| Once Again | 2006 | AUS 56 |
| Evolver | 2008 | AUS 66 |
| Wake Up! (with The Roots) | 2010 | AUS 42 |
| Love in the Future | 2013 | AUS 15 |
| Darkness and Light | 2016 | AUS 37 |
| A Legendary Christmas | 2018 | AUS 39 |
| Bigger Love | 2020 | AUS 52 |
| Legend | 2022 | — |
| My Favorite Dream | 2024 | — |
Sydney has had more John Legend concerts than anywhere else in the region: seven across four visits. In 2005 he played the Sydney Entertainment Centre and the Sydney SuperDome on consecutive nights with the Black Eyed Peas. In 2011 he played the State Theatre on Market Street. In December 2013 he was at Allphones Arena with Alicia Keys and gave his own concert at the Concert Hall, and in December 2014 he opened and closed the All of Me Tour in the city, at Qantas Credit Union Arena on 5 December and the Concert Hall on 18 December.
Several of those venues have changed since. The arena at Sydney Olympic Park, the SuperDome of 2005 and Allphones Arena of 2013, is now Qudos Bank Arena. The Sydney Entertainment Centre in Haymarket, which carried the Qantas Credit Union Arena name at the time of his 2014 show, has since been demolished.
Like Alicia Keys, with whom he toured in 2013, John Legend has played some of Australia's best-known winery stages. Rochford Winery in Coldstream, in Victoria's Yarra Valley, hosted him on Saturday 7 December 2013 and Saturday 13 December 2014. In the Hunter Valley he played Hope Estate in Pokolbin on 14 December 2013 and Bimbadgen Estate, also in Pokolbin, on 6 December 2014.
These shows are outdoor, seated and usually start in the early evening. The Belvoir Amphitheatre, where he played on 28 October 2011, sits in a similar setting in Perth's Swan Valley wine region. Whether a future tour would include wineries is unknown; no 2027 date of any kind has been announced.
Melbourne has seen him at Rod Laver Arena twice, in 2005 and 2013, at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda in April 2011 and at the Plenary, the main hall of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, in December 2014. Brisbane has had him at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in 2013 and at the Brisbane Convention Centre on 8 December 2014.
Adelaide has had two concerts: the Adelaide Entertainment Centre with the Black Eyed Peas on 30 September 2005, and the AEC Theatre on 14 December 2014. Perth has had three: the Burswood Dome in 2005, the Belvoir Amphitheatre in October 2011 and Perth Arena, the opening night of the Australian leg with Alicia Keys, on 5 December 2013.
New Zealand has had five John Legend concerts. All three of the main centres saw him in October 2005 with the Black Eyed Peas: Wellington's Queens Wharf Event Centre, Christchurch's WestpacTrust Centre and the Supertop in Auckland. Since then it has been Auckland only, at Vector Arena on 19 December 2013 and 10 December 2014. The arena is now called Spark Arena.
The 2013 Auckland show has a 16-song list in the archive, ending with 'Ordinary People', 'Caught Up', 'Green Light' and 'All of Me'. No New Zealand date has been announced for 2026 or 2027.
A John Legend concert centres on his voice and piano, with a band and, on the 2014 tour, strings. The 2014 Sydney finale on 18 December ran to 21 songs: 'Made to Love', 'Tonight (Best You Ever Had)', 'Prelude / Let's Get Lifted', 'Used to Love U', 'Number One', 'Save the Night', 'Maxine', 'Everybody Knows', 'The Beginning...', 'Save Room', 'P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)', 'Wake Up Everybody', 'Green Light', a cover of 'Rock With You', 'Who Do We Think We Are', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', 'You & I (Nobody in the World)', 'Caught Up', 'Ordinary People', 'So High' and 'All of Me'.
The December 2013 Sydney concert had 24 songs, including 'Love in the Future', 'Open Your Eyes', 'Hold On Longer', 'Tomorrow', 'Heaven', 'Angel', 'Asylum' and a cover of Luther Vandross's 'Never Too Much'. In Perth and Auckland that month he also covered Bruce Springsteen's 'Dancing in the Dark'.
The list below shows the songs he has played most often at documented Australian and New Zealand concerts. A future tour would add songs from Darkness and Light, Bigger Love and Legend, none of which has yet been toured in the region.
No tickets are on sale for John Legend concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no shows have been announced. There is no presale, no general sale date and no official presale code.
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Is John Legend touring Australia in 2027?
Not as of 9 October 2026. No Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced. His only announced 2027 date is a benefit concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 6 March 2027.
When did John Legend last play in Australia?
At the Concert Hall in Sydney on Thursday 18 December 2014, the last night of the All of Me Tour.
When did John Legend last play in New Zealand?
At Vector Arena (now Spark Arena) in Auckland on Wednesday 10 December 2014.
How many times has John Legend toured Australia?
Four times: with the Black Eyed Peas in 2005, in April 2011 (Bluesfest and theatre shows), with Alicia Keys in December 2013 and on his own All of Me Tour in December 2014.
Has John Legend played Bluesfest?
Yes, at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay on Saturday 23 April 2011.
Has John Legend played winery concerts in Australia?
Yes: Rochford Winery in the Yarra Valley in 2013 and 2014, Hope Estate in Pokolbin in 2013 and Bimbadgen Estate in Pokolbin in 2014.
What songs does John Legend play live?
His Australian sets have included 'Ordinary People', 'All of Me', 'Green Light', 'Used to Love U', 'Save Room', 'Let's Get Lifted', 'So High' and 'You & I (Nobody in the World)'.
What is John Legend's latest album?
My Favorite Dream (2024), a children's album. His previous studio album was Legend (2022).
Is there a presale code for John Legend Australia 2027?
No. Without an announced tour there is no presale. Official presale codes are always free and come from the artist, the promoter or a card partner.
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