MG Live and Frontier Touring proudly announce Grammy award-winning hip-hop visionaries The Roots east coast tour for January 2025 – the band’s first Australian headline tour in 12 years! Joining The Roots at all shows as special guests will be US legendary Brooklyn based MC Talib Kweli and three-time Grammy nominated songwriter from Melbourne, Nai Palm.
Frontier Member presale commences Tuesday 10 September from 1pm local before tickets go on sale Wednesday 11 September from 2pm local time. Tickets via frontiertouring.com/theroots
Kicking off 2025, Melbourne fans will be lucky enough to enjoy an evening with The Roots at Melbourne’s beautiful Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday 1 January to celebrate New Years Day before heading to Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Thursday 2 January, with a final AU show at Brisbane’s Eatons Hill Outdoors on Friday 3 January.
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The Roots were co-founded by childhood friends Black Thought and Questlove in 1987 with their passionate and innovative approach to hip-hop playing underground gigs in Philadelphia, New York and across Europe. From releasing their debut album Organix in 1993, the band have gone on to release 11 studio albums and released legendary hip-hop hits including ‘You Got Me ft. Erykah Badu’, ‘Hang in There (with John Legend)’, ‘The Seed (2.0) ft. Cody ChesnuTT’, ‘Never ft. Patty Crash’, ‘The Next Moment’, ‘What They Do’ and ‘Don’t Say Nuthin’’. In 2009, the band began their tenure as house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Displaying an impeccable knack for versatility and improvisation, the band have become a fixture on television screens across the world to this day cementing their place within pop culture history. Questlove also serves as the show’s Musical Director.
After nearly 20 years of releasing mesmerizing music, Talib Kweli stands as one of the world’s most talented and most accomplished Hip Hop artists. Whether working with Mos Def as one-half of Black Star, partnering with producer Hi-Tek for Reflection Eternal, releasing landmark solo material or collaborating with Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Just Blaze, J Dilla, or Madlib, Kweli commands attention by delivering top-tier lyricism, crafting captivating stories and showing the ability to rhyme over virtually any type of instrumental.
In 2011, Kweli founded Javotti Media, which is self-defined as “a platform for independent thinkers and doers.” Kweli has set out to make Javotti Media (which released his 2011 album, Gutter Rainbows, and is named after his paternal grandmother) into a media powerhouse that releases music, films and books.
THE ROOTS
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
JANUARY 2025
WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS TALIB KWELI & NAI PALM
Presented by MG Live and Frontier Touring
FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE
via frontiertouring.com/theroots
Runs 24 hours from: Tuesday 10 September (1pm local time)
or until presale allocation exhausted
TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Wednesday 11 September (2pm local time)
Wednesday 1 January (New Years Day)
Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Melbourne, VIC
Lic. All Ages
ticketek.com.au
Thursday 2 January
Hordern Pavilion | Sydney, NSW
Lic. All Ages
ticketek.com.au
Friday 3 January
Eatons Hill Outdoors | Brisbane, QLD
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au
*Also performing at:
Monday 30 December – Summer Haze / Tauranga, NZ
Tickets and info: summerhazenz.com/
*Not a Frontier Touring show
