Madison Cunningham - The Ace Tour

In the organizer's words:

Depending on the game, an ace can be the highest or lowest card, zero or infinity. A break-up feels similar - one path breaks, while all others remain infinitely possible. How do you write about heartbreak when you're going through it? "Ace," Grammy Award-winner Madison Cunningham's third album for Verve Forecast, traces every aspect of it: falling out of love, feeling the broken heart and then falling in love again. Co-produced by Cunningham and Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Rilo Kiley, Bahamas, Peach Pit), the fourteen-track album is honest and full of heart, even when it breaks.

Ace builds on the success of Revealer (2022), a darkly comic portrait of an artist that earned Cunningham her GRAMMY for "Best Folk Album," but it's a different album. A slow burn until it wasn't. It follows a period of writer's block. On Revealer and her debut album Who Are You Now (2019), Cunningham says she wrote songs about heartbreak, but not her own heartbreak. They were sketches, observations. Cunningham wanted Ace to convey emotion first and foremost. Heartbreaking, lush and bold.

Cunningham's first single from Ace, "My Full Name", was met with high praise from PASTE. The lyrics are "simultaneously sprawling and intimate" and reminiscent of "an ancient poem".

On Ace, which Cunningham is co-producing, she wanted to bring the piano to the fore. "I wanted it to feel like a mountain top," says Cunningham, "I wanted Ace to feel like a mountain we built together." Ace is an album that feels alive and lush - just as Cunningham had hoped when she began writing. It's an album of mastery and honesty. Cunningham loves every single song on it. You can tell.

Price information:

Partially seated, free choice of seats, no seating entitlement