Leon Bridges returns to Australia in late summer 2027 with The Happiness Anytime Tour, named after his fifth studio album. The run opens on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Friday 26 February 2027 and closes with two nights at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March.
In between he plays On the Banks, the outdoor stage at the QPAC Cultural Forecourt in Brisbane, on Sunday 28 February, and the Fremantle Arts Centre for the Perth show on Wednesday 3 March. The Australian band 54 Ultra supports, and Surprise Chef joins the bill in Melbourne. All five concerts are open-air, and tickets have been on sale since Thursday 24 September 2026.
This page sets out the confirmed dates and venues, a night-by-night view of the tour and the Texan singer's Australian and New Zealand concert history as documented by setlist.fm, from the Falls Festival in 2015 to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in January 2025.
The Happiness Anytime Tour follows the release of Happiness Anytime on 25 September 2026. Bridges released four singles from the record on 17 July 2026, and the album was produced by J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia Kitto of the British group Jungle, a new direction after the folk and country colours of Leon (2024). The Australian leg went on sale the day before the album came out.
The route is short and built around outdoor venues. Sydney comes first, on the Forecourt of the Opera House on Friday 26 February 2027. Two days later, on Sunday 28 February, Bridges plays On the Banks at the QPAC Cultural Forecourt on Brisbane's South Bank. The tour then crosses to Western Australia for the Fremantle Arts Centre on Wednesday 3 March, a venue he already played in September 2022.
Melbourne closes the tour with two nights at the Royal Botanic Gardens on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March 2027. It is the only city with more than one date, and one he knows well: eight documented Melbourne shows since 2016, from the Corner Hotel to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in 2025.
No New Zealand date has been announced for 2027 as of 9 October 2026, and there are no Adelaide, Canberra or regional dates either. Bridges last played New Zealand in January 2019, at the Outer Fields at Western Springs in Auckland. If further shows are added, they will appear on this page.
The Forecourt is the open-air space at the foot of the Monumental Steps of the Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point. The Opera House opened in October 1973 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007; the Forecourt is used for outdoor concerts with the harbour behind the stage.
The Cultural Forecourt is the open-air space beside the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in South Brisbane, on the bank of the Brisbane River. QPAC opened in 1985 as part of the Queensland Cultural Centre, and the forecourt hosts outdoor concerts during the warmer months.
The Fremantle Arts Centre occupies a limestone Gothic Revival building constructed by convict labour in the 1860s as a lunatic asylum. It became an arts centre in the 1970s, and its gardens and lawn host a programme of outdoor summer concerts.
The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria were established in 1846 on the south bank of the Yarra River, close to Melbourne's city centre. The Melbourne gardens are used for open-air summer concerts on their lawns.
Friday 26 February 2027 — Sydney Opera House Forecourt, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Leon Bridges concert was at ICC Sydney Theatre (21 January 2025). The tour starts here.
Sunday 28 February 2027 — On the Banks – QPAC Cultural Forecourt, Brisbane. The artist's most recent documented Brisbane show was at Riverstage on 17 January 2025.
Wednesday 3 March 2027 — Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth.
Saturday 6 March 2027 — Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 2 nights are booked at Royal Botanic Gardens; this is number 1. The artist's most recent documented Melbourne show was at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on 23 January 2025. This venue closes the tour.
Leon Bridges first came to Australia at the end of 2015, only months after his debut album Coming Home. The setlist.fm archive places him at Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong on 29 December 2015 and at the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay in Tasmania the next day, followed by North Byron Parklands on 2 January 2016. Between festival days he played club shows: the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 3 January, the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 6 January and 170 Russell on 7 January, before crossing to Auckland's St James Theatre on 9 January 2016.
He came straight back in July 2016. Two nights at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney (18 and 21 July) framed a show at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 19 July, and on 22 July he played North Byron Parklands, the home of Splendour in the Grass. In March 2018, two months before Good Thing was released, he returned for the Forum in Melbourne on 25 March, the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 28 March and two sets at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm in Byron Bay, the Bluesfest site, on 29 and 31 March.
The Good Thing Tour reached the region in January 2019. It began in New Zealand at the Outer Fields at Western Springs in Auckland on 12 January, then moved to two nights at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda (14 and 15 January), Botanic Park in Adelaide on 16 January, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 17 January and The Tivoli in Brisbane on 19 January. The Hordern set ran to 19 songs and mixed the two albums, with 'Bad Bad News', 'Beyond' and 'Mrs.' next to 'River' and 'Coming Home'.
In September and October 2022 he toured Australia's concert halls. The run opened at the Fremantle Arts Centre on 22 September, then visited Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide on 27 September, Hamer Hall in Melbourne on 29 September and the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on 1 October. It finished with three consecutive nights in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, on 3, 4 and 5 October 2022, the longest stand he has played in any Australian venue.
His most recent visit was The Leon Tour in January 2025, which moved him up to amphitheatres. He played the Riverstage in Brisbane on 17 January, Centennial Vineyards at Bowral in the Southern Highlands on 19 January, the ICC Sydney Theatre at Darling Harbour on 21 January and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 23 January 2025. Those sets ran to 20 to 22 songs, the longest in his Australian archive.
Across 30 documented Australian shows and two in New Zealand, Sydney leads with nine concerts in five different rooms, ahead of Melbourne with eight and the Byron Bay festival sites with four. The 2027 tour adds the Opera House Forecourt, the QPAC Cultural Forecourt and the Royal Botanic Gardens to that list.
The table below lists 32 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Leon Bridges between 2015 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (9), Melbourne (8), Byron Bay (4), Brisbane (3), Adelaide (2), Auckland (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2025 | Melbourne | Sidney Myer Music Bowl | The Leon Tour |
| 21 January 2025 | Sydney | ICC Sydney Theatre | The Leon Tour |
| 19 January 2025 | Bowral | Centennial Vineyards | The Leon Tour |
| 17 January 2025 | Brisbane | Riverstage | The Leon Tour |
| 5 October 2022 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Boundless Tour |
| 4 October 2022 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Boundless Tour |
| 3 October 2022 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Boundless Tour |
| 1 October 2022 | Brisbane | Fortitude Music Hall | Boundless Tour |
| 29 September 2022 | Melbourne | Hamer Hall | Boundless Tour |
| 27 September 2022 | Adelaide | Her Majesty's Theatre | Boundless Tour |
| 22 September 2022 | Fremantle | Fremantle Arts Centre | Boundless Tour |
| 19 January 2019 | Brisbane | The Tivoli | Good Thing Tour |
| 17 January 2019 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | Good Thing Tour |
| 16 January 2019 | Adelaide | Botanic Park | Good Thing Tour |
| 15 January 2019 | Melbourne | Palais Theatre | Good Thing Tour |
| 14 January 2019 | Melbourne | Palais Theatre | |
| 12 January 2019 | Auckland | The Outer Fields at Western Springs | Good Thing Tour |
| 31 March 2018 | Byron Bay | Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm | |
| 29 March 2018 | Byron Bay | Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm | |
| 28 March 2018 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | |
| 25 March 2018 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | |
| 22 July 2016 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands | Coming Home |
| 21 July 2016 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Coming Home |
| 19 July 2016 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | Coming Home |
| 18 July 2016 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Coming Home |
| 9 January 2016 | Auckland | St James Theatre | Coming Home |
| 7 January 2016 | Melbourne | 170 Russell | Coming Home |
| 6 January 2016 | Melbourne | Corner Hotel | Coming Home |
| 3 January 2016 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | Coming Home |
| 2 January 2016 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands | Coming Home |
| 30 December 2015 | Marion Bay | Marion Bay Falls Festival Site | Coming Home |
| 29 December 2015 | Geelong | Mount Duneed Estate | Coming Home |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 13 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (3 January 2016 to 23 January 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Festivals shaped Bridges' early relationship with Australian audiences. His first visit, over New Year 2015-16, followed the Falls Festival circuit, with dates at Marion Bay in Tasmania and at North Byron Parklands in early January. He went back to North Byron Parklands in July 2016, during the Splendour in the Grass weekend.
Bluesfest is the other constant: the setlist.fm archive lists two Bridges sets at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay over Easter 2018 (29 and 31 March). In 2027 all five announced shows are his own headline concerts; no festival booking in Australia or New Zealand had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
Todd Michael Bridges was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 13 July 1989 and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He studied at Tarrant County College, where he took dance classes and joined the Velocity Dance Company, and taught himself guitar while writing songs for open-mic nights. He worked as a dishwasher and a busser in Fort Worth restaurants until Columbia Records signed him in December 2014. The stage name came from friends who said he looked like the actor Leon Robinson.
His debut, Coming Home (2015), recorded on vintage equipment with Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block of White Denim, revived 1960s soul and was nominated for the Grammy for Best R&B Album. It reached number 8 in Australia. 'River' later gained a second life in the HBO series Big Little Lies. Good Thing (2018) drew on quiet storm and 1990s neo-soul; it also peaked at number 8 in Australia, and 'Bet Ain't Worth the Hand' won the Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
Gold-Diggers Sound (2021) was his take on 1990s and 2000s R&B and earned another Best R&B Album nomination. Alongside his own records he made two collaborative EPs with the Houston trio Khruangbin, Texas Sun (2020) and Texas Moon (2022). He has also acted, playing Gil Scott-Heron in the 2018 film First Man and River in The Young Wife (2023).
Leon (2024) was a more personal record with folk and country influences, released on 4 October 2024 and toured in Australia three months later. Happiness Anytime, produced by members of Jungle, followed on 25 September 2026 and reached number 12 in Australia, his best placing since Good Thing.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Coming Home | 2015 | AUS 8 |
| Good Thing | 2018 | AUS 8 |
| Gold-Diggers Sound | 2021 | AUS 25 |
| Leon | 2024 | AUS 85 |
| Happiness Anytime | 2026 | AUS 12 |
Melbourne is, with Sydney, the city where Bridges has played most often in Australia. The archive shows eight Melbourne concerts across six venues: the Corner Hotel and 170 Russell in January 2016, the Forum Theatre in July 2016 and March 2018, two nights at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda in January 2019, Hamer Hall in September 2022 and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in January 2025.
The 2027 tour gives the city its first two-night stand since the Palais in 2019, and the setting is new. The Royal Botanic Gardens hosts the closing shows on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March, with Surprise Chef added to the bill for these nights only. Surprise Chef is a Melbourne instrumental soul group, which makes the pairing an obvious fit.
For fans who missed the Sidney Myer Music Bowl show, this is the next chance to see him outdoors in Melbourne. The weekend placement means the Sunday show is the last of the whole Australian tour.
Sydney opens the tour on Friday 26 February 2027 on the Forecourt of the Sydney Opera House, the outdoor space at the foot of the building's steps. It completes a gradual climb through the city's venues: the Metro Theatre in 2016 and 2018, the Enmore Theatre and the Hordern Pavilion, three nights in the Opera House Concert Hall in 2022 and the ICC Sydney Theatre at Darling Harbour in 2025.
Bridges therefore returns to the Opera House site five years after his three Concert Hall nights of October 2022, this time outside, looking over the harbour rather than inside the hall. It is the only Sydney date announced.
In Brisbane, Bridges plays On the Banks at the QPAC Cultural Forecourt on Sunday 28 February 2027. The forecourt sits beside the Queensland Performing Arts Centre on the South Bank of the Brisbane River, a short walk from South Brisbane station.
His Brisbane history runs from The Tivoli in January 2019 to the Fortitude Music Hall in October 2022 and the Riverstage in the City Botanic Gardens in January 2025. The 2027 show keeps him outdoors and by the river, as at the Riverstage.
Western Australia gets one date, at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Wednesday 3 March 2027, listed under Perth in the tour schedule. Bridges opened his 2022 tour in the same place on 22 September 2022, so this is his second documented show in the state and his second at this venue.
The Fremantle Arts Centre is a 19th-century limestone building with a lawn that is used for summer concerts. The midweek date sits between the Brisbane and Melbourne shows, which suggests a single trip west in the middle of the run.
Recent Australian sets have grown longer with each visit. The Hordern Pavilion show in January 2019 had 19 songs, the 2022 concert hall shows 16 to 18, and The Leon Tour of January 2025 ran to 20 to 22 songs, at the Riverstage, Bowral, the ICC Sydney Theatre and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He plays with a full band and backing singers, and dance has always been part of his stage presence.
The constants in his Australian set lists are 'River', 'Smooth Sailin'' and 'Coming Home', followed by 'Lisa Sawyer', 'Beyond', 'Bad Bad News' and 'Better Man'. The 2025 shows opened with 'When a Man Cries' and 'Panther City' from Leon and added 'Laredo', 'Mariella' and 'Peaceful Place', alongside 'Texas Sun', his collaboration with Khruangbin. 'River' arrives late in the evening, and in 2025 the encore closed with 'Lisa Sawyer' and 'Beyond'.
The 2027 sets will introduce songs from Happiness Anytime, which no Australian audience has heard live yet. Expect the older soul material to stay, given how consistently it has appeared in his set lists since 2016.
Tickets for The Happiness Anytime Tour have been on sale since Thursday 24 September 2026. Sales run through the venues' own outlets and the tour's authorised ticket agencies, including Oztix, QPAC for the Brisbane show and the Sydney Opera House box office for the Forecourt date. The support act is 54 Ultra on every night, with Surprise Chef added in Melbourne.
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When does Leon Bridges' 2027 Australian tour start?
On Friday 26 February 2027 at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt. It ends at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Sunday 7 March 2027.
Which cities are on The Happiness Anytime Tour?
Sydney, Brisbane, Perth (Fremantle Arts Centre) and Melbourne, which has two nights on 6 and 7 March 2027.
Who is supporting Leon Bridges in Australia?
54 Ultra supports on the tour, and Surprise Chef joins the bill for the Melbourne shows.
Is Leon Bridges playing New Zealand in 2027?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. His last New Zealand show was at the Outer Fields at Western Springs in Auckland on 12 January 2019.
Are tickets on sale?
Yes. Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 24 September 2026 through the official outlets and the venues' box offices.
When did Leon Bridges last play Australia?
In January 2025 on The Leon Tour: Brisbane Riverstage, Centennial Vineyards in Bowral, the ICC Sydney Theatre and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 23 January 2025.
Has he played the Fremantle Arts Centre before?
Yes. He opened his 2022 Australian tour there on 22 September 2022.
Is there an Adelaide date?
Not in 2027 so far. He last played Adelaide at Her Majesty's Theatre on 27 September 2022.
What album is he touring?
Happiness Anytime, his fifth studio album, released on 25 September 2026 and produced by members of Jungle.
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