Tash Sultana returns to Sydney in May 2027 for a close-up Enmore Theatre show, bringing new music and a new live chapter to Newtown.
On Enmore Road, the evening usually gathers in layers.
There are people heading towards dinner, groups spilling out of bars, buses easing along King Street and the steady movement of Newtown after dark. The old theatre at the corner has been part of that rhythm for decades, its marquee glowing above a street where music, food and nightlife have long shared the same few blocks.
On Tuesday 4 May 2027, that familiar scene will have a different soundtrack.
Tash Sultana will bring their new Australian and New Zealand tour to the Enmore Theatre for a Sydney performance that will sit considerably closer to the audience than many of the larger stages they have played around the world.
It will be a homecoming of sorts for an artist whose career has travelled a long way from the streets of Melbourne, where busking and street performance formed part of the early story. Over the past decade, Sultana has moved from viral live performance videos to international festivals, sold-out venues and a global audience, while retaining the distinctive sense of one person building an entire musical world in real time.
The Sydney show will arrive as part of a new chapter, with new music, a forthcoming album and an all-new live show.
Tash Sultana Comes Home
There is something particularly fitting about seeing Tash Sultana in a venue such as the Enmore Theatre.
The theatre is large enough to accommodate a substantial concert, but it retains the proportions and atmosphere of an old neighbourhood venue. Its Art Deco facade has looked over Enmore Road for generations, while inside, the relationship between performer and audience remains relatively immediate.
That intimacy is central to this tour.
Sultana will play seven shows across Australia and New Zealand in April and May 2027, beginning in Auckland and Wellington before moving through Thirroul, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The Sydney performance will be the fourth date of the tour, following the show at Anita's Theatre in Thirroul on Saturday 1 May.
The choice of venues gives the tour a different scale from the major arenas and festivals that have become part of Sultana's international career.
In Sydney, the audience will gather at 118 to 132 Enmore Road, rather than travelling to one of the city's larger suburban stadiums. It means that the concert will begin well before the first note, somewhere between the restaurants of Enmore Road, the late-night streets of Newtown and the familiar glow of the theatre's facade.
A Sound Built In Real Time
Part of the fascination of Tash Sultana's music has always been the physical process behind it.
Sultana is a multi-instrumentalist capable of moving between guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards and other instruments, while using a custom looping approach to layer sounds into increasingly complex arrangements.
The result can begin with something almost bare. A rhythm appears, followed by a guitar phrase. Another sound enters. A vocal line settles over the top. Gradually, what began with one performer becomes a dense piece of music.
That process is important to understanding why the live setting matters.
Rather than simply reproducing a recorded arrangement, Sultana's performance style makes the construction of the music part of the spectacle. The audience sees the individual elements and hears how they accumulate.
It is an approach that has translated remarkably well from small performances to major international stages.
Sultana has performed at festivals around the world and sold more than a million tickets internationally, according to Frontier Touring. Their performance videos have also reached hundreds of millions of views, helping establish a visual language around the music as well as an audience for it.
Yet the basic idea remains unusually direct: one musician, a collection of instruments and the gradual construction of a song in front of the crowd.
Tash Sultana And The New Music
The Sydney performance will also arrive at a point of transition.
Sultana's latest single, Something In The Water, introduces the next phase of their work. The track is built around warm guitar, an unhurried groove and vocals that move between restraint and intensity before allowing the instrumental performance to expand.
It is also part of a larger body of new work, with a new album expected as Sultana enters this next stage of their career.
The song's themes suggest a degree of reflection.
Sultana has described the recent period as one of stepping back, stripping away old assumptions and finding a way forward. Rather than presenting the new music simply as a continuation of what came before, they have framed it as a change in direction.
That makes the upcoming tour more than a run of dates around Australia and New Zealand.
It will be an introduction to a revised live show and to music that marks a new point in an already unusual career.
For an audience in Sydney, that means the Enmore Theatre will provide a relatively contained setting in which to hear that transition.
From Melbourne Streets To Global Stages
The distance between Sultana's early street performances and the Enmore Theatre is considerable, but there is a clear thread between them.
Street performance demands immediacy. There is little separation between performer and audience, and the music has to establish itself quickly in an unpredictable environment.
Sultana's rise began in that world before online video transformed the reach of the performances.
The musician's looping performances became widely shared, and songs such as Jungle introduced a broader audience to the distinctive combination of rhythm, guitar, voice and layered instrumentation.
From there, the career expanded internationally.
Sultana has worked with artists including Anderson .Paak, Snoop Dogg, The Free Nationals, Teddy Swims, Milky Chance, Matt Corby, Bonobo and City and Colour. Their touring history has included major venues and festivals, while performances have also taken them to some of the most recognisable stages overseas.
The scale has changed, but the central idea has remained remarkably consistent.
Music is constructed rather than simply delivered.
That distinction is likely to remain important when Sultana returns to a smaller room in Sydney.
A Night In Newtown
For anyone attending the Enmore Theatre show, the location is part of the experience.
Newtown is one of Sydney's neighbourhoods where an evening can stretch naturally around a concert. Enmore Road and King Street offer restaurants, pubs, small bars, cafes and shops, while the theatre itself sits within easy reach of the surrounding streets.
There is no need for the concert to exist as an isolated event.
A May evening could begin with dinner, continue with a walk through Newtown and finish inside the theatre, with the surrounding streets still active when the music ends.
The Enmore's location also gives the show a particular sense of scale. Sydney's larger concert venues often involve trains, parking areas, broad concourses and long distances between the city and the stage. The Enmore is different.
The theatre sits directly in the neighbourhood.
The audience arrives through an ordinary city street and then steps into a room that has hosted generations of performers.
That contrast suits an artist whose career has moved repeatedly between the intimate and the enormous.
What The Sydney Show Represents
There is a temptation to describe a return to Australia simply as a homecoming, but Sultana's story makes that idea more complicated.
Australia is where the career began, but the artist has spent much of the past decade travelling between countries, festivals and venues. The upcoming tour therefore brings an internationally established musician back into the local circuit, while also presenting a version of the music that has developed through years of touring.
The Sydney date sits almost exactly in the middle of the seven-show itinerary.
After the two New Zealand performances and the Thirroul show, Sultana will arrive at the Enmore Theatre before continuing to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
There is something appealing about that sequence.
The tour will move through cities and venues of different sizes, but the Sydney performance will remain rooted in one of the city's most recognisable music neighbourhoods.
For longtime listeners, it will be an opportunity to hear familiar songs alongside the newer material. For those encountering the music for the first time, the live setting may offer a clearer sense of how the songs are constructed.
The Enmore After Dark
By the time the doors open on 4 May, Enmore Road will be settling into its evening rhythm.
The theatre lights will begin to stand out against the darker street. People will gather outside with the familiar mixture of anticipation and conversation that accompanies a concert. Inside, instruments and equipment will be waiting on stage.
Then the room will change.
That is the peculiar power of a live music venue. A building that spends most of its days as part of the city becomes, for several hours, a place with its own atmosphere and rules.
For Tash Sultana, the transformation will be particularly appropriate.
The music has always depended on accumulation, on taking individual sounds and turning them into something larger. The concert will do something similar with the audience. Hundreds of separate journeys through Sydney will converge on one room, before the crowd eventually disperses again into the Newtown night.
By then, the streets outside will be carrying on as usual.
Restaurants will still be serving dinner. Cars will still move along Enmore Road. People will still be making their way home.
But for a few hours, inside one of Sydney's oldest and most enduring live music rooms, Tash Sultana will be building a different landscape from the ground up, one loop, rhythm and instrument at a time.
Tash Sultana Sydney 2027 Event Details
Tash Sultana will perform at Enmore Theatre, Sydney, on Tuesday 4 May 2027.
Venue: Enmore Theatre, 118 to 132 Enmore Road, Newtown, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 4 May 2027
Time: Set times will be confirmed closer to the show. The official event listing currently advises patrons to check back for set times.
Age restriction: Licensed All Ages
Ticketing: Ticketek is the authorised ticketing agency for the Sydney performance.
Tickets go on general sale Tuesday 29 September 2026 at 1pm local time. Frontier Members have access to a presale from Monday 28 September at 12 noon local time, while the artist presale begins Monday 28 September at 10am local time.
The official tour page lists general admission standing and reserved seating at $89.90, with a VIP Early Entry and Exclusive Merch package at $189.90, plus applicable transaction, handling and delivery fees.
For official tour information and authorised ticketing, visit Frontier Touring – Tash Sultana.
The Enmore Theatre also confirms the Sydney performance on its official venue calendar.
Tickets should be purchased through the authorised ticketing channels listed by the promoter, particularly for a tour where demand may be high.
For now, the details are simple: one autumn night, one of Sydney's best-known music venues and an artist returning to Australian stages with new music and a new live show.
Outside, Newtown will continue with its usual evening business. Inside, the room will belong to the music.