The performances feature Crowe’s band The Gentlemen Barbers and others
In August 2024, actor and musician Russell Crowe will bring his Indoor Garden Party back to the United States for the first time since 2012. He describes an Indoor Garden Party as “an event, a band, a happening. It’s fluid. The personnel changes, but it’s always big. It’s like a festival where I gather people I admire, musicians and storytellers, and we put on a show.”
The concept started in 2009 in a pub outside London owned by the chat show legend Michael Parkinson, and it has kept going in a haphazard, ad-lib way ever since. With this configuration, Crowe brings to the foreground The Gentlemen Barbers, whom he has been quietly tinkering with for the last four years.
“There’s an attitude about this band. It’s got a groove. We do a lot of story songs, but we also know we are here to blow out the cobwebs and give the audience a good night,” Crowe adds.
Grabbing time between the shoots of films like Unhinged, Thor: Love & Thunder, The Greatest Beer Run, and his latest movie release, The Pope’s Exorcist, the band has been gathering, sometimes for weeks at a time, just playing, recording, talking, gelling.
The relationships within the band go back 30 years. Drummer Dave Kelly and trumpeter Stewart Kirwan were members of Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts. They also played with Crowe in The Ordinary Fear of God, which included pianist Stu Hunter and, in its touring form, guitarist Chris Kamzelas. Bassist James Hazelwood has fit right in and shares friendships within the band that go back decades.
Tickets go on sale April 26th at indoorgardenparty.com.
Russell Crowe 2024 Indoor Garden Party Tour Dates:
Aug 11 – Newark, NJ @ NJPAC
Aug 12 – New York City @ Sony Hall
Aug 14 – Los Angeles @ Whisky A Go Go
Aug 17 – Tulsa, OK @ River Spirit Casino
Aug 19 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Bar-B-Q
Aug 21 – New Orleans @ Tipitina’s
