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Dyke set for Down Under

National Champions set for extensive Australian Tour in 2009.

Black Dyke
 

It has been confirmed that the Black Dyke Band will be making a tour of Australia in 2009.

High profile

The tour will take place in August 2009 and will take in concerts at high profile venues in the major cities of Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane and Newcastle, before the tour ends with a concert at Sydney’s iconic Opera House.

The band will accompany multi instrumentalist James Morrison on the tour, renewing a partnership that now stretches back a decade4BR

Morrison

The band will accompany multi instrumentalist James Morrison on the tour, renewing a partnership that now stretches back a decade.

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