Ryan Davis (USA) - Australian tour dates June 2025

It's a huge honour to have one of our favourite songwriters, Ryan Davis, coming to Australia from Kentucky, USA for our Chapter Music End of an Era show at Daytripper for Rising on June 7. We're excited to announce that he's doing a series of solo shows across the East Coast.

Sat June 7 - MELBOURNE, VIC (Max Watts) Daytripper - tickets

Tue June 10 - BEECHWORTH, VIC (Tanswells Hotel) w/ Ned Collette & Thalia Zedek - free entry

Wed June 11 - MELBOURNE, VIC (Nighthawks) w/ Sweet Whirl solo - tickets

Fri June 13 - THIRROUL, NSW (Frank’s Wild Years) w/ Soda Eaves - tickets

Sat June 14 - SYDNEY, NSW (Botany View Hotel) w/ B Schattner + Angie Duo

Sun June 15 - SYDNEY, NSW (Red House) w/ Ned Collette & Thalia Zedek (US) - bookings via email

After more than 15 years of releasing music in outfits State Champion, Tropical Trash and others, Dancing on the Edge is the first album produced under Kentucky-based songwriter Ryan Davis’ name.
Ryan Davis continues in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Terry Allen, Souled American and David Berman’s Silver Jews, but reimagines the dated archetype of the modern day indie troubadour. A seven-song, 53-minute basement folk opus, Dancing On the Edge ranges from bare-boned, achingly crooned avant-folk tales to jovial, collaborative excursions into long-form experimental country-tinged rock. The sprawling double album was self-released at the end of 2023 and reissued in 2024 by UK label Tough Love.
Dancing on the Edge is a dense collection of Americana-Noir that navigates a familiar yet alternate reality, one of enchanted mundanity and uniquely Mid-Southern introspection. Simultaneously antisocial and outwardly inviting, free of cynicism yet slightly stepped in paranoia, Dancing on the Edge is as delicately choreographed and emotionally connective as it is, at times, absurd.
Ryan Davis is currently touring the US with Bill Callahan, just finished a tour supporting MJ Lenderman and did a co-headline European tour in 2024 with Australia’s own Ned Collette.