Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin will be playing one show at NORPA in March during her return tour of Australia. 

Patty Griffin was last in Australia in 2008 and sold-out her shows. She has attracted a cult-following with her passionate performance style, telling heartfelt stories with her powerful vocals.

Over the course of two decades, the Grammy award-winner – and seven-time nominee – has crafted nine classic studio albums and two live collections, a body of work that prompted the New York Times to hail her for “cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people…(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.”

Widely regarded among the best singer-songwriters of her era, this year’s self-titled album, Patty Griffin collects songs written during and in the aftermath of profound personal crisis, several years in which she battled – and ultimately defeated – cancer.

Patty Griffin’s universal songbook has been covered by Kelly Clarkson, Dixie, Bon Iver, Miranda Lambert, Melissa Etheridge, Brandi Carlile, Solomon Burke, Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Ben Harper and Linda Ronstadt.

Griffin has also collaborated with a wide range of prolific artists, among them Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Jack Ingram, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings.

Chronicling love and death, heartache and joy, connection and detachment, Patty Griffin continues with her uncanny perception, and ever-increasing ingenuity. 

NORPA and Frontier Touring present Patty Griffin at NORPA at Lismore City Hall on Friday, March 13 at 7.30pm.

The Secret Chef diner and bar opens from 5pm. Tickets cost $69 - $75.

For information or to book, visit http://www.norpa.org.au or phone 1300 066 772.