Kehlani's biggest tour so far ends in Australia. The Kehlani World Tour, built around the singer's self-titled fifth album, plays four arena shows in February 2027: RAC Arena in Perth on Thursday 18 February, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday 21 February, Afterpay Arena in Sydney on Tuesday 23 February and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Thursday 25 February.
The Brisbane night is the final show of the whole tour, which opened in Minneapolis on 6 August 2026 and runs to 46 shows across North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Destin Conrad, who opened for Kehlani on the Blue Water Road Trip in 2022, is the support act in Australia.
The Australian dates come at the end of the most successful stretch of Kehlani's career: “Folded” reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2025 and won two Grammy Awards in early 2026. Pre-sales ran on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 August 2026, and tickets have been on general sale since Wednesday 26 August 2026.
Kehlani announced the world tour on 26 May 2026, starting with 33 North American shows from August to October 2026. Europe followed in November and December 2026, then South Africa in December, before the final leg in Australia in February 2027.
Perth opens the Australian leg on Thursday 18 February at RAC Arena. Melbourne follows on Sunday 21 February at Rod Laver Arena, Sydney on Tuesday 23 February at Afterpay Arena in Sydney Olympic Park, and Brisbane closes both the leg and the tour on Thursday 25 February at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Boondall.
It is the first time Kehlani has headlined arenas of this size across Australia. On the Crash World Tour in March 2025 the singer played Perth HPC, John Cain Arena in Melbourne, the ICC Sydney Theatre and the outdoor Riverstage in Brisbane; every 2027 venue is bigger.
There is no New Zealand date on the 2027 schedule, and none in Adelaide, Canberra or the Gold Coast. Auckland, which saw Kehlani at Spark Arena in 2018, 2023 and March 2025, is not on this leg as of 9 October 2026.
Perth Arena opened on 10 November 2012 on Wellington Street in the city centre and trades as RAC Arena under a naming-rights deal. It holds about 15,500 people.
The centre court of Melbourne Park, opened in 1988 and home of the Australian Open. It was the first arena in Australia with a retractable roof and holds about 14,200 for concerts.
Opened in 1999 at Sydney Olympic Park as the Sydney SuperDome, later Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena, and renamed Afterpay Arena in July 2026. It is the largest permanent indoor entertainment venue in Australia.
Opened on 20 February 1986 in Boondall, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, it holds up to about 14,500 for concerts. It is due to host handball at the 2032 Olympic Games.
Thursday 18 February 2027 — RAC Arena, Perth. The artist's most recent documented Perth show was at Perth HPC on 15 March 2025. This is the opening night of the run.
Sunday 21 February 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. The artist's most recent documented Melbourne show was at John Cain Arena on 18 March 2025.
Tuesday 23 February 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. The artist's most recent documented Sydney show was at ICC Sydney Theatre on 19 March 2025.
Thursday 25 February 2027 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane. The artist's most recent documented Brisbane show was at Riverstage on 21 March 2025. The run finishes here.
Kehlani first toured Australia and New Zealand on the SweetSexySavage World Tour in August 2017, months after the debut album came out. The run opened at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on 23 August, went to Max Watt's House of Music in Brisbane on 25 August, and, according to Wikipedia, to the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 26 August and the Forum in Melbourne on 27 August. Setlist.fm then has the Astor Theatre in Perth on 29 August and the Big Top at Luna Park in Sydney on 31 August.
The 2017 shows ran 18 or 19 songs, opening with “Keep On” and “Distraction” and closing with “CRZY”, with “Gangsta”, the song from the Suicide Squad soundtrack, in the middle of the set. Over New Year 2017–18 setlist.fm lists two outdoor dates: the Claremont Showground in Perth on 31 December and Bay Park at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand on 2 January 2018.
In April 2018 Kehlani was back as an opening act on the Oceania leg of Halsey's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour. The setlist.fm rows from that month include Spark Arena in Auckland on 19 April, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 21 April, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 22 and 26 April, HBF Stadium in Perth on 24 April and the Riverstage in Brisbane on 27 April, with sets of around ten to twelve songs where they are listed.
The next visit came in January 2023, after Blue Water Road: Spark Arena in Auckland on 20 January, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 25 January, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 27 January, the Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane on 28 January, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on 29 January and Metro City in Perth on 31 January. The Sydney set ran to 20 songs, opening with “little story” and finishing with “Nights Like This” and “CRZY”.
The Crash World Tour reached Australia and New Zealand in March 2025 with long shows of 27 to 29 songs: Perth HPC on 15 March, John Cain Arena in Melbourne on 18 March, the ICC Sydney Theatre on 19 March, the Riverstage in Brisbane on 21 March and Spark Arena in Auckland on 23 March. (Wikipedia's tour article lists these dates under 2024; setlist.fm places them in 2025, after the June 2024 release of Crash.)
The table below lists 24 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Kehlani between 2017 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (6), Perth (5), Auckland (4), Melbourne (4), Brisbane (3), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2025 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Crash World Tour |
| 21 March 2025 | Brisbane | Riverstage | Crash World Tour |
| 19 March 2025 | Sydney | ICC Sydney Theatre | Crash World Tour |
| 18 March 2025 | Melbourne | John Cain Arena | Crash World Tour |
| 15 March 2025 | Perth | Perth HPC | Crash World Tour |
| 31 January 2023 | Perth | Metro City Concert Club | |
| 29 January 2023 | Adelaide | Hindley Street Music Hall | |
| 28 January 2023 | Brisbane | Eatons Hill Hotel & Function Centre | |
| 27 January 2023 | Melbourne | Sidney Myer Music Bowl | |
| 25 January 2023 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 20 January 2023 | Auckland | Spark Arena | |
| 26 April 2018 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 24 April 2018 | Perth | HBF Stadium | |
| 22 April 2018 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 21 April 2018 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | |
| 19 April 2018 | Auckland | Spark Arena | |
| 2 January 2018 | Mount Maunganui | ASB Baypark Stadium | |
| 31 December 2017 | Perth | Claremont Showground | |
| 31 August 2017 | Sydney | Big Top Sydney | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
| 29 August 2017 | Perth | Astor Theatre | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
| 27 August 2017 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
| 26 August 2017 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
| 25 August 2017 | Brisbane | Max Watt's House of Music | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
| 23 August 2017 | Auckland | Logan Campbell Centre | SweetSexySavage World Tour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 13 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (23 August 2017 to 23 March 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
No Australian or New Zealand festival is named for Kehlani in the data. The closest entries are the New Year shows at the Claremont Showground in Perth on 31 December 2017 and Bay Park in Mount Maunganui on 2 January 2018, which setlist.fm lists as outdoor dates without naming the event. The 2027 tour is all headline arena shows.
Kehlani Ashley Parrish was born on 24 April 1995 in Oakland, California, and raised by an aunt. They trained in ballet and modern dance at the Oakland School for the Arts until a knee injury turned them towards singing, and at 14 they joined the pop cover band PopLyfe, which finished fourth on the sixth season of America's Got Talent in 2011.
After leaving the group and a period of instability, Kehlani released the mixtapes Cloud 19 (2014) and You Should Be Here (2015); the second was nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the Grammys and led to a deal with Atlantic Records. “Gangsta”, from the Suicide Squad soundtrack in 2016, widened their audience, and the debut album SweetSexySavage followed on 27 January 2017.
It Was Good Until It Wasn't (2020) debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, Blue Water Road came out in April 2022 and Crash on 21 June 2024, followed by the mixtape While We Wait 2 that August. Along the way Kehlani featured on Cardi B's “Ring”, Eminem's “Nowhere Fast” and Zedd's “Good Thing”, and opened for Demi Lovato and Halsey in 2018.
“Folded”, released on 11 June 2025, peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. The self-titled fifth album, Kehlani, followed on 24 April 2026 with the singles “Out the Window”, “Back and Forth” featuring Missy Elliott and “Shoulda Never”, and reached number 18 in Australia.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| SweetSexySavage | 2017 | AUS 32 |
| It Was Good Until It Wasn't | 2020 | AUS 17 |
| Blue Water Road | 2022 | — |
| Crash | 2024 | — |
| Kehlani | 2026 | AUS 18 |
Brisbane on Thursday 25 February 2027 is the final night of a 46-show world tour that started in Minneapolis in August 2026. It comes after legs in North America, Europe and South Africa.
Kehlani's Brisbane history moves steadily up in size: Max Watt's House of Music in 2017, the Riverstage in 2018 and again in 2025, the Eatons Hill Hotel in 2023, and now the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, which holds up to about 14,500 for concerts. At the Riverstage in March 2025 the set ran to 29 songs, the longest Australian show in the archive.
Most of Kehlani's previous Australian headline shows were in theatres and halls: the Enmore Theatre, Forum and Astor Theatre in 2017, the Hordern Pavilion and Hindley Street Music Hall in 2023, the ICC Sydney Theatre in 2025. The biggest rooms they played before 2027 were either as a support act, such as Spark Arena and HBF Stadium in 2018, or John Cain Arena in Melbourne in 2025.
In 2027 all four shows are in full-size arenas. Rod Laver Arena and Afterpay Arena are among the largest indoor venues in the country, and RAC Arena in Perth holds about 15,500. The move reflects the success of “Folded” and the new album, and the tour data lists one show per city.
Perth gets the first Australian date, on Thursday 18 February at RAC Arena. The city has been on every Kehlani visit in the archive: the Astor Theatre in 2017, the Claremont Showground on New Year's Eve 2017, HBF Stadium in 2018, Metro City in 2023 and Perth HPC in March 2025.
There are two days between Perth and Melbourne, then a show every second night: Melbourne on Sunday 21 February, Sydney on Tuesday 23 February and Brisbane on Thursday 25 February.
Auckland has been a regular Kehlani stop, from the Logan Campbell Centre in 2017 to Spark Arena in 2018, 2023 and 2025, when the Crash World Tour ended its Oceania run there on 23 March. In 2027, though, the tour data has no New Zealand date.
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Kehlani's recent shows are long. On the Crash World Tour in 2025 the Australian sets ran 27 to 29 songs. At John Cain Arena in Melbourne the show opened with “Next 2 U”, “GrooveTheory”, “What I Want” and “Nunya”, went through older favourites such as “The Way”, “You Should Be Here”, “Toxic”, “Distraction” and “Gangsta”, and closed with “KEHLANI”, “Ring”, “Nights Like This” and a mix of “After Hours”.
Across all their Australian and New Zealand shows on setlist.fm, the most played songs are “Gangsta”, “Distraction”, “The Way”, “Honey”, “CRZY” and “You Should Be Here”. Songs from the new album may feature, but no Australian set list exists yet: “Folded” was released after the 2025 Australian dates and has never been played here on the available data.
Destin Conrad is the support act on all four Australian nights.
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When does Kehlani's 2027 Australian tour start?
At RAC Arena in Perth on Thursday 18 February 2027.
Which cities are on the tour?
Perth (18 February), Melbourne (Rod Laver Arena, 21 February), Sydney (Afterpay Arena, 23 February) and Brisbane (Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 25 February).
Who is the support act?
Destin Conrad, who also opened for Kehlani on the Blue Water Road Trip in 2022.
Is there a New Zealand date?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. Kehlani last played Spark Arena in Auckland on 23 March 2025.
Is Brisbane the last show of the tour?
Yes. The Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 25 February 2027 is the final date of the 46-show Kehlani World Tour.
When did Kehlani last tour Australia?
On the Crash World Tour in March 2025: Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, then Auckland.
Are tickets still on sale?
Tickets have been on general sale since Wednesday 26 August 2026; the pre-sales ran on 24 and 25 August.
Will Kehlani play “Folded”?
It has not been played in Australia yet on the available data, as it came out after the 2025 tour; set lists for the 2027 shows are not known in advance.
Is there an Adelaide show?
No. Kehlani played Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide in January 2023, but the 2027 leg has only Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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