Ben Folds & A Piano Tour hits Down Under in February and March 2026
Frontier Touring and Chugg Entertainment are thrilled to welcome Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and New York Times Best Selling author, Ben Folds, back to Australia next February and March as part of his Ben Folds & A Piano Tour. The tour features an intimate live musical experience, with Folds performing past and current hits, and sharing stories from over three decades as a platinum-selling singer-songwriter and former frontman for Ben Folds Five.
Ben is currently on the road, weaving his way throughout the USA for the remainder of 2025 before heading to Australia early 2026. Ben Folds & A Piano tour kicks off in Brisbane at the Fortitude Music Hall on February 18th, before two New South Wales shows at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on February 20th and Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul on February 21st. The tour continues at Canberra Theatre Centre on February 22nd, across to Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide on February 24th, then two Victorian shows at the Palais Theatre, Melbourne on February 26th and Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo on February 27th before heading west for a final show at Riverside Theatre, Perth on March 1st.
Presales start on Monday, August 11th at 10 am local time ahead of the general sale Tuesday, August 12th.
Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, a holiday album, and numerous collaborative records.
He currently tours as a pop artist while also performing for over two decades with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras.
Folds, who served for eight years as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, stepped down from his post when Donald Trump announced his takeover of the Center. On October 25-26, 2024, just days before the US presidential election, Folds recorded two sold-out performances with the NSO, which he released as a live album in July that debuted at the top of the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.
A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben also creates new music for film, TV and theater, with original new music he composed to be featured in an animated Peanuts special airing this summer on Apple TV.
In 2022, he launched a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolina entitled Keys For Kids, which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically disadvantaged households. For the past 15 years, he has been an outspoken advocate for arts funding, music education and music therapy in the US as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.
Ben Folds & A Piano 2026 Australian Tour Dates:
Feb 18 – Brisbane, QLD @ The Fortitude Music Hall
Feb 20 – Sydney, NSW @ State Theatre
Feb 21 – Thirroul, NSW @ Anita’s Theatre
Feb 22 – Canberra, NSW @ Canberra Theatre Centre
Feb 25 – Adelaide, SA @ Thebarton Theatre
Feb 26 – Melbourne, VIC @ Palais Theatre
Feb 27 – Bendigo, VIC @ Ulumbarra Theatre
Mar 1 – Perth, WA @ Riverside Theatre
