Vance Joy tickets & concert schedule

Vance Joy is an indie folk-pop musician, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1987. After finishing the Monash University, he dealt with Aussie rules in his country. Although he became the “best first year player” in 2008, in the category of VFL, he chose to follow a music career.

His first release was the song “From Afar” in the beginning of 2013 and it was followed by “God Loves You When You’re Dancing”, his first EP, a few months later. It contained the song “Riptide” which reached no. 6 on the Aria chart and it also entered at the UK and the USA charts. He chose his nickname by a book (his real name is James Gabriel Keogh). “Dream Your Life Away”, Joy’s first album, came out in September of 2014. It topped the Australian chart and contained the songs “Mess Is Mine” and “Fire and the Flood”. He joined his first tour in the USA, while later he opened for Taylor Swift, in her tour around North America, Australia and the UK. He played “Riptide” in several shows, including the MTV Europe Music Awards of 2014 and it became a hit in a lot of countries, mainly in Europe.

Joy wrote a song for the film “Paper Towns” named “Great Summer”, that came out in June of 2015 and in November of that year he won the ARIA Award for “Best Male Artist”. His second album “Nation of Two” came out in 2018, entering again at the top of the Australian Albums chart (no. 10 in the USA), which won another Australian music award for “Best Adult Contemporary Album” in 2018. It was followed by his first live album, “Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre”, in November of the same year.